Alistar·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Alistar Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, followed by Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth in the primary tree, as well as Manaflow Band and Transcendence in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Ability Haste in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Heartsteel as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Sunfire Aegis. For your last 3 items, you should build Thornmail, Frozen Heart and finish with Jak'Sho, The Protean. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 53.8% winrate over 199 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Alistar Top build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Manaflow Band with Transcendence in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Ability Haste in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Sunfire Aegis, which you should build first, followed by Plated Steelcaps as your second item and Thornmail as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Heartsteel, Frozen Heart and Dead Man's Plate. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 49.4% win rate over 166 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Phase Rush as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch in the primary tree, and Magical Footwear with Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Sunfire Aegis as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Cosmic Drive as a third item. You want to finish the build with Abyssal Mask, Thornmail and Knight's Vow. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - Q - E. This build is currently sitting at a 55.0% win rate across 160 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Alistar Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating and Unflinching as your primary rune tree, and Cosmic Insight with Hextech Flashtraption as your secondary tree. Use Ability Haste, Health Scaling and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Sunfire Aegis as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Thornmail as third item. The last 3 options are Heartsteel, Frozen Heart and Force of Nature. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 42.7% win rate over 110 matches played.

Situational Alistar Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Alistar build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.