Alistar·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Alistar Top build, you should take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Electrocute as your keystone, followed by Sudden Impact, Grisly Mementos and Treasure Hunter in the primary tree, as well as Absolute Focus and Scorch in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Hextech Rocketbelt as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Cosmic Drive. For your last 3 items, you should build Stormsurge, Thornmail and finish with Abyssal Mask. For the skill order, you want to stick with W - Q - E. Right now, this build has 50.7% winrate over 150 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Alistar Top build would be to take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Phase Rush as your keystone, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity and Waterwalking in the primary tree, and Cosmic Insight with Hextech Flashtraption 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 Hextech Rocketbelt, which you should build first, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item and Cosmic Drive as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Stormsurge, Frozen Heart and Winter's Approach. The skill order for this build is W - Q - E. In the current patch, this build has a 43.7% win rate over 135 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being 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, as well as Attack Speed, Move Speed, and Tenacity and Slow Resist 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 Winter's Approach as a third item. You want to finish the build with Abyssal Mask, Hextech Rocketbelt and Thornmail. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 56.6% win rate across 99 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.