2011-10-03, 02:44 PM
IllegallySane Wrote:Because I don't feel like going through over 450 pages of stuff.
So I had one game last night against bots as Alistar. How useful do you guys consider him? I mainly played him as a support healer with Triumphant Roar spam to keep up minions and surrounding Champions, while using Pulverize on mass enemy minions and Headbutting opposing Champions when they try to run.
The recommended items are vastly different than what guides are telling me to get. Should I listen to the guides, or just stick with recommended stuff until I start playing against other Summoners?
Alistar is only viable as jungler or as support which are roles you shouldn't be learning just yet. Jungling will get important at lvl 30 because you then have the runes and masteries neccasary for it to be effective and supporting through lvl 1-30 makes you lack some critical things like last-hitting. It's best to start playing typical ap/ad carries and later adapt to other roles, which you'll learn. Characters like Annie and Ashe are great for this. As you're looking to learn champions I'd refer to the guide site mobafire and for the more advanced stuff the featured guides on solomid. Just to be precise, Alistar is one of the best support characters, so he's not bad at all, but you'd do better to focus on other things first.