Alistar Support Build Guide: Best Runes and Items for Season 15

Alistar Support Build Guide: Best Runes and Items for Season 15

By Marcus Chen

March 15, 2025 at 04:33 PM

Alistar Support is a powerful tank support champion who excels at engaging and protecting allies. This comprehensive guide will help you master his playstyle.

Core Build:

  • Summoner Spells: Flash, Ignite
  • First Items: Celestial Opposition, Symbiotic Soles
  • Core Items: Locket of the Iron Solari, Zeke's Convergence
  • Final Items: Knight's Vow, Vigilant Wardstone

Optimal Runes:

  • Primary: Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching
  • Secondary: Cosmic Insight, Hextech Flashtraption
  • Shards: Ability Haste, Health Scaling, Health Scaling

Skill Order: Q > W > E

Key Tips:

  • Position near your ADC during laning phase to threaten engages
  • Set up ambushes in bushes before major objectives
  • After engaging, fall back to protect your ADC
  • Use W-Q combo for reliable crowd control

Strong Against:

  • Tahm Kench (55.6% WR)
  • Brand (54.9% WR)
  • Sylas (54.8% WR)

Weak Against:

  • Taric (43.7% WR)
  • Soraka (45.2% WR)
  • Janna (45.5% WR)

Best ADC Synergies:

  • Seraphine (57.5% WR)
  • Nilah (56.1% WR)
  • Yasuo (53.4% WR)

Alternative Build:

  • Keystone: Phase Rush
  • Build Path: Same as core build
  • Win Rate: 50.3% across 2,505 matches

Situational Items:

  • Adapt armor/magic resist based on enemy composition
  • Consider matchup-specific rune adjustments
  • Build order may vary based on game state

This build maintains a 49.2% win rate over 12,604 matches in Emerald+ ranked games.

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