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 Stormraider's Surge as your keystone, followed by Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence and Scorch in the primary tree, as well as Hextech Flashtraption and Cosmic Insight 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 Imperial Mandate as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Hextech Rocketbelt. For your last 3 items, you should build Cosmic Drive, Cryptbloom and finish with Thornmail. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 41.1% winrate over 214 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Deathfire Touch as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch in the primary tree, and Second Wind with Overgrowth in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Imperial Mandate as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Morellonomicon as a third item. You want to finish the build with Hextech Rocketbelt, Abyssal Mask and Cosmic Drive. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - Q - E. This build is currently sitting at a 41.1% win rate across 95 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.