Alistar

The Minotaur

Tank / Support · Mana · Melee

About

Alistar, the Minotaur, is a tank and support champion who uses Mana as a resource and attacks at melee range. Their kit focuses on durability.

On the official scale, difficulty is 7 out of 10: a champion hard and needs practice to perform well.

Compared with other champions, Alistar starts with above average HP (685), above average armor (40) and average move speed (335). Attack range is 125 units.

Alistar has 16 skins besides the default look.

Difficulty

Attack6

Defense9

Magic5

Difficulty7

Abilities

Passive · Triumphant Roar
Alistar charges his roar by stunning or displacing enemy champions or when nearby enemies die. When fully charged he heals himself all nearby allied champions.
Q · Pulverize
Alistar smashes the ground, dealing damage to nearby enemies and tossing them into the air.
Cooldown: 14/13/12/11/10s · Cost: 50/55/60/65/70
W · Headbutt
Alistar rams a target with his head, dealing damage and knocking the target back.
Cooldown: 14/13/12/11/10s · Cost: 50/55/60/65/70
E · Trample
Alistar tramples nearby enemy units, ignoring unit collision and gaining stacks if he damages an enemy champion. At full stacks Alistar's next basic attack against an enemy champion deals additional magic damage and stuns them.
Cooldown: 12/11.5/11/10.5/10s · Cost: 50/55/60/65/70
R (Ultimate) · Unbreakable Will
Alistar lets out a wild roar, removing all crowd control effects on himself, and reducing incoming physical and magical damage for the duration.
Cooldown: 120/100/80s · Cost: 100

Tips for playing Alistar

Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.

Tips for playing against Alistar

Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.

Base stats

HP: 685 (+120 per level)
Mana: 350 (+40 per level)
Armor: 40 (+4.7 per level)
Magic resist: 32 (+2.05 per level)
Attack damage: 62
Attack speed: 0.625 (+2.125 per level)
Move speed: 335
Range: 125

Lore

Always a mighty warrior with a fearsome reputation, Alistar seeks revenge for the death of his clan at the hands of the Noxian empire. Though he was enslaved and forced into the life of a gladiator, his unbreakable will was what kept him from truly becoming a beast. Now, free of the chains of his former masters, he fights in the name of the downtrodden and the disadvantaged, his rage as much a weapon as his horns, hooves and fists.