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Recommended Items
Spells:
Exhaust
Flash
Items
Ability Order
Triumphant Roar (PASSIVE)
Alistar Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Vayne
You should avoid playing against a vayne since she can knock you away from landing good CC, and her Silver bolts' damage scales with your hp and is true damage so goes through your ulti and any armor.
Introduction
Using Relic Shield:
You should only use Relic shield to execute a minion of one or mor of the following is true:
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You have full stacks
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There is a canon minion to use it on
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Your adc is missing around 100hp or more
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You are going back soon
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Your adc is trying to lasthit under tower
Or else you should wait.
Siturational & Optional Items:





Captain: Get this when you are doing most engages and your team needs to catch up faster
Alacrity: When winning an you have tabi.
Homeguard: When defending/losing





Alistar i think is one of the best, if not the best, champion at tower diving when he has his ulti.
When your'e about to dive, make sure your team is with you and then go in for the kill. When the first tower hit is about to hit you, you activate your

Keep im mind that you generally can only dive a person safely if you are
Engaging
You are often the person to engage. When your team is ready, you should use talisman if you have it, then there generally are two ways to engage:
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Flash in and land a Q on as many people as possible, but mainly the squishy damage dealers, and immidiately headbutt one of the squishies into your team.
Use a regular W+Q combo, and try to hit as many people as possible.
Peeling
Alistar is great at peeling, so it is important to have in mind when team fighting. If you engage yourself, you should usually go back and protect your damage dealers rather than trying to kill enemies. Knocking up and away brusers and assassins is a very good thing to do for your squishies
Zoning the jungler
One last thing which i think a lot of people miss is the ability to zone the enemy jungler away when taking Baron or dragon. You basically stay near him and push him away when the objective goes low, and just Q him if he comes close, this will make it very hard for the person to smite steal.
The Combo
The Q+W combo is one of the most known tricks on alistar, and is often what makes him shine, so mastering this is vital if you want to be a very succusful Alistar.
It is quite simple, but not always easy to do. If you don't know what the combo exactly is, it is where you use


As this is easier shown than explained here is a good demonstration of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8s1WvAYpgs#t=54
So, if you get the hang of this and get confident with the abilities, you can do things you wouldnt be able to do before.
Making the tables turn
Sometimes you will find yourself in a bad spot, but you will be able to turn the situation and get something good out of it. This is often when you have a tower near you. Lets say you and your adc are being pushed under your tower and their support walks near tower range to poke you, so he will take aggro for a second. This is where you can flash+Q and while he is knocked up, push him under the turret for a guarenteed kill. This also works great if your'e getting ganked. The best way to really know when you can do what, would be to just try to do crazy stuff, and get a feel for what works.
Here are some great examples of excellent use of his abilities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC1EoGitTkU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n41RakMXCE0

4/23/3 might sound a little odd but I think it is pretty decent since you get everything useful from the defense tree and -CD% and mana regen to make more use of your CC. Some people prefer 0/21/9 with Insight to get cookies which i don't think is bad either.
I would go with something like this if i chose 0/21/9:




Alistar is probably one of the strongest picks against blitz imo. You just need to stick very close to your ADC to block his grab, after you get hooked you can knock their adc away and Q blitz, resulting in a 2v1 fight, which almost always will be a very good trade.



Alistar can have a hard time against squishy poke champs because of their consitent long range poke, but if you stay passive in lane they might overextend into a gank or getting knocked under the tower.

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