Alistar·Support Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Alistar Support build, you should take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Aftershock as your keystone, followed by Font of Life, Bone Plating and Unflinching in the primary tree, as well as Cosmic Insight and Hextech Flashtraption 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 Celestial Opposition as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Warmog's Armor. For your last 3 items, you should build Locket of the Iron Solari, Knight's Vow and finish with Vigilant Wardstone. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 55.6% winrate over 22 561 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Alistar Support build would be to take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Aftershock as your keystone, Font of Life, Bone Plating and Unflinching 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 Solstice Sleigh, which you should build first, followed by Plated Steelcaps as your second item and Locket of the Iron Solari as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Knight's Vow, Zeke's Convergence and Vigilant Wardstone. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 51.6% win rate over 8 647 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Glacial Augment as your keystone, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, and Bone Plating with Unflinching in the secondary tree, as well as Ability Haste, Health Scaling, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Celestial Opposition as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Locket of the Iron Solari as a third item. You want to finish the build with Knight's Vow, Zeke's Convergence and Vigilant Wardstone. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 47.3% win rate across 3 578 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Alistar Support build in the current patch, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity and Waterwalking 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 Celestial Opposition as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Locket of the Iron Solari as third item. The last 3 options are Knight's Vow, Zeke's Convergence and Vigilant Wardstone. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 49.2% win rate over 2 467 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.