Alistar

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Comp identity — Support

Leans Attack — its strongest of the five comp axes.

Plays like — nearest pentagon

Ranked by how close their five-axis heatmap looks — role-agnostic.

Where it thrives (5-comp fit)

Attacknatural · 90%
Protectworkable · 40%
Catchworkable · 30%
Alistar brings the frontline and engage that start the 5v5. Enough Protect and Catch sits in the kit to fall back and peel when the game goes defensive. Passive (Triumphant Roar) heals self 5%/allies 7% max HP on 7 stacks built from stunning/displacing enemies or nearby deaths.

Kit quirks

Passive (Triumphant Roar) heals self 5%/allies 7% max HP on 7 stacks built from stunning/displacing enemies or nearby deaths
Q+W combo (Pulverize knockup into Headbutt knockback) is a signature all-in CC chain that can body enemies into their own team
R cleanses all CC and cuts incoming damage 55-75% for 7s, enabling reckless dives

How Alistar actually performs in ranked solo queue · 258 weighted games

Solo queue strength

Support54% WR · 257.9 games
Top50% WR · 0.3 games
Mid50% WR · 0.2 games

Strongest duos

Best matchups

Hardest matchups

Dragons & win rate

Win rate when Alistar's team secured at least one of each drake, next to the all-champion rate in that same state. Teams that take dragons are usually already ahead, so every champ wins more with them — the honest read is the gap, i.e. whether Alistar beats the average team that also has the drake. Single-drake samples are thin; treat small counts as suggestive.

Hextech65%vs 62% avg+3pp96g

Cloud63%vs 60% avg+3pp89g

Infernal65%vs 60% avg+5pp84g

Chemtech66%vs 62% avg+4pp76g

Ocean60%vs 63% avg-2pp73g

Mountain (Earth)64%vs 59% avg+5pp64g

Champion reference

Base stats and every ability with its per-rank values and ratios. Search all champions →

Alistar — The Minotaur

Class: Vanguard
Resource: Mana
Range type: Melee
Adaptive type: Magic
Positions: Support
Released: 2009-02-21 (Alpha Week 2)
Last changed: V26.15
Price: 675 BE · 585 RP

Damage

Toughness

Control

Mobility

Utility

Difficulty

Base stats

Stat	Base	Per level	Level 18
Health	685	+120	2725
Health regen (per 5s)	8.5	+0.85	22.95
Mana	350	+40	1030
Mana regen (per 5s)	8.5	+0.8	22.1
Armor	40	+4.7	119.9
Magic resist	32	+2.05	66.85
Attack damage	62	+3.75	125.75
Attack speed	0.625	+2.13%	0.851
Attack speed ratio	0.625
Attack range	125
Movement speed	335

Level 18 uses League's growth curve (base + 17 × per-level); attack speed grows as bonus % scaled by the attack speed ratio.

Advanced stats & game-mode balance

Acquisition radius: 600
Selection height: 170
Selection radius: 140
Pathing radius: 50
Gameplay radius: 80

ARAM: damage dealt ×0.95 · damage taken ×1.05 · healing ×0.8

One for All: damage dealt ×1.05 · damage taken ×0.97

Ultimate Spellbook: damage dealt ×0.95 · damage taken ×1

URF: damage dealt ×1 · damage taken ×0.95

Abilities

Passive

Triumphant Roar

Static cooldown: 3Effect radius: 1000 • 950

Innate: Alistar generates a stack of Triumph for each enemy champion he stuns or displaces with his abilities, and each time a nearby enemy minion or non-epic monster dies. He generates 7 stacks if a nearby enemy champion or epic monster dies.

At 7 stacks, Alistar consumes them all to heal himself for 5% of his maximum health and nearby allied champions for 7% of his maximum health.

Triumphant Roar can occur only once every few seconds, though Alistar may still generate stacks before then.

Targeting input: PassiveAffects: Self, AlliesProjectile: See Notes

Notes (5)

If Alistar is at 7 stacks when Triumphant Roar comes off cooldown, he will roar as soon as it elapses.
Alistar does not gain stacks for unsuccessfully trying to apply crowd control, for instance against a crowd control immune target.
Healing occurs simultaneously for Alistar and his allies.
There is a VFX projectile (700 missile speed) that cannot be destroyed by Wind Wall and is unrelated to the actual heal.
Alistar loses all Triumph stacks upon dying.

Pulverize

Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 manaCooldown: 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10Cast time: 0.25 • 0.15Effect radius: 375

Active: Alistar smashes the ground beneath him, dealing magic damage to nearby enemies and stunning and knocking them up simultaneously for 1 second.

Magic Damage: 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 (+ 80% AP)

Targeting input: AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: Blocked

Damage details (1)

Pulverize: Hit — Magic damage
Tags: Ability damage, Area damage
Properties: ApplyDamageModifier, ApplyLifesteal, ApplyOmnivamp, EnableCallForHelp, EnableKill, RespectDodge, RespectImmunity, TriggerDamageEvents, TriggerOnHitEvents

Notes (3)

Pulverize can be buffered during Headbutt to cast with reduced cast time when the dash ends.
Displacement immunity will also resist the application of the stun.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.

Map-specific differences (1)

Cooldown changed to 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 seconds.

Headbutt

Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 manaCooldown: 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10Cast time: noneTarget range: 650Speed: 1200 • 1544

Active: Alistar dashes to the target enemy's location. If they are within 400 units upon arrival, he deals them magic damage and knocks them back 700 units over 0.5 seconds while also stunning them for 0.75 seconds.

Magic Damage: 55 / 110 / 165 / 220 / 275 (+ 100% AP)

Targeting input: UnitTarget out-of-range override: Walk in range of the target unit to castAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Ability damageDamage sub-types: MagicMinion Aggro: DrawnSpell shield: BlockedGrounded: DisabledKnockdown: Interrupted

Damage details (1)

Headbutt: Hit — Magic damage
Tags: Ability damage
Properties: ApplyDamageModifier, ApplyLifesteal, ApplyOmnivamp, EnableCallForHelp, EnableKill, RespectDodge, RespectImmunity, TriggerDamageEvents, TriggerOnHitEvents

Notes (12)

The dash speed depends on the inverse of the distance to the target:
If Alistar's radius overlaps with his target's, he will dash with 1200 speed.
If Alistar is further from his target than the previous condition, he will dash with (1200 × dash distance) / (dash distance - sum of radiuses).
At maximum target range, against an enemy with a 65 gameplay radius (median of all champions), Alistar will dash with 1544 speed (reaching his target within 0.429 seconds).
Both the lower the dash distance and the larger Alistar and/or his target, the faster the dash becomes; this scales hyperbolically (dash speed can theoretically scale up to ∞).
When Pulverize is buffered during the dash, the knock back distance is reduced to 200 units.
The CC duration of the ability can be reduced by up to 33.33% Tenacity, due to airborne not being reducible while the stun is.
The knockback direction is in a straight line from Alistar's original location at start of cast and the enemy when Alistar's dash ends.
Headbutt can knock enemies through terrain. The knockback stops short on walls that cannot be surpassed but the disable duration is not changed.
The spell indicator for this ability also displays the direction for the knock back relative to Alistar's position.
Alistar's attack range is reduced「 to -375 」「 by 500 」during Headbutt, to prevent him from being able to attack the target when he completes the dash.
Displacement immunity will not resist the application of the stun.

Tips & tricks (1)

Headbutt may be used as a gap-closer to knock up enemies at the target location with Pulverize, additionally overriding Headbutt's knock back.

Map-specific differences (2)

Stun now ends at the same time the displacement does.
Cooldown changed to 26 / 23.5 / 21 / 18.5 / 16 seconds.

Trample

Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 manaCooldown: 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10Cast time: noneEffect radius: 350

Active: Alistar tramples the ground around him every 0.5 seconds over 5 seconds, becoming ghosted and dealing magic damage to nearby enemies. Each time this damages at least one enemy champion, he generates a stack of Trample that lasts for the remaining duration, stacking up to 5 times.

Magic Damage Per Tick: 8 / 11 / 14 / 17 / 20 (+ 7% AP)
Total Magic Damage: 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 / 200 (+ 70% AP)

At 5 stacks, Alistar's next basic attack on-hit against a champion within 6 seconds ends Trample's effects to deal 20 – 275 (based on level) bonus magic damage and stun the target for 1 second.

Targeting input: AutoAffects: Self, EnemiesDamage type: See NotesDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: See NotesParries: See Notes

Damage details (3)

Trample: Shockwave — Magic damage
Tags: Ability damage, Area damage, Periodic damage
Properties: ApplyDamageModifier, ApplyLifesteal, ApplyOmnivamp, EnableCallForHelp, EnableKill, RespectDodge, RespectImmunity, TriggerDamageEvents, TriggerOnHitEvents
Trample: Attack — Physical damage
Tags: Basic damage
Properties: ApplyDamageModifier, ApplyLifesteal, ApplyOmnivamp, EnableCallForHelp, EnableKill, RespectDodge, RespectImmunity, TriggerDamageEvents, TriggerOnHitEvents
Trample: Bonus Damage — Magic damage
Tags: Ability damage
Properties: ApplyDamageModifier, ApplyLifesteal, ApplyOmnivamp, EnableCallForHelp, EnableKill, RespectDodge, RespectImmunity, TriggerDamageEvents, TriggerOnHitEvents

Notes (4)

The on-hit effect is single-use and Alistar's buff is removed as soon as it is consumed; it can only be applied once by the triggering attack instance.
For example, Guinsoo's Rageblade's Phantom Hit can trigger it if the triggering attack did not, but cannot apply it again if the triggering attack consumed it.
The on-hit effect can be blocked by spell shield, but the attack cannot.
The on-hit effect is consumed if the attack is blocked, but not if it is dodged or missed while Alistar is blinded. In all cases, the attack's effects are negated as normal.

Map-specific differences (1)

AP ratio per tick changed to 10% AP.

Unbreakable Will

Cost: 100 manaCooldown: 120 / 100 / 80Cast time: 0.25

Active: Alistar cleanses himself of all crowd control. For the next 7 seconds, he reduces incoming damage.

Damage Reduction: 55 / 65 / 75%

Targeting input: AutoAffects: Self

Notes (2)

True damage cannot be reduced by any means and will deal full damage to Alistar during Unbreakable Will.
Unbreakable Will's modifier to incoming damage stacks additively with Vladimir's Hemoplague for a total reduction of 45/55/65%.(unexpected)

Map-specific differences (3)

Duration changed to 3.5 seconds. *
Damage reduction changed to 50 / 60 / 70%.
Cooldown changed to 180 / 150 / 120 seconds.

Stats and abilities from the League of Legends Wiki (CC BY-SA 3.0), built for patch 26.22.

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Headbutt

Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 manaCooldown: 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10Cast time: noneTarget range: 650Speed: 1200 • 1544

Magic Damage: 55 / 110 / 165 / 220 / 275 (+ 100% AP)

Damage details (1)

Headbutt: Hit — Magic damage
Tags: Ability damage
Properties: ApplyDamageModifier, ApplyLifesteal, ApplyOmnivamp, EnableCallForHelp, EnableKill, RespectDodge, RespectImmunity, TriggerDamageEvents, TriggerOnHitEvents

Notes (12)

The dash speed depends on the inverse of the distance to the target:
If Alistar's radius overlaps with his target's, he will dash with 1200 speed.
If Alistar is further from his target than the previous condition, he will dash with (1200 × dash distance) / (dash distance - sum of radiuses).
At maximum target range, against an enemy with a 65 gameplay radius (median of all champions), Alistar will dash with 1544 speed (reaching his target within 0.429 seconds).
Both the lower the dash distance and the larger Alistar and/or his target, the faster the dash becomes; this scales hyperbolically (dash speed can theoretically scale up to ∞).
When Pulverize is buffered during the dash, the knock back distance is reduced to 200 units.
The CC duration of the ability can be reduced by up to 33.33% Tenacity, due to airborne not being reducible while the stun is.
The knockback direction is in a straight line from Alistar's original location at start of cast and the enemy when Alistar's dash ends.
Headbutt can knock enemies through terrain. The knockback stops short on walls that cannot be surpassed but the disable duration is not changed.
The spell indicator for this ability also displays the direction for the knock back relative to Alistar's position.
Alistar's attack range is reduced「 to -375 」「 by 500 」during Headbutt, to prevent him from being able to attack the target when he completes the dash.
Displacement immunity will not resist the application of the stun.

Tips & tricks (1)

Headbutt may be used as a gap-closer to knock up enemies at the target location with Pulverize, additionally overriding Headbutt's knock back.

Map-specific differences (2)

Stun now ends at the same time the displacement does.
Cooldown changed to 26 / 23.5 / 21 / 18.5 / 16 seconds.