User blog comment:Muffintehbrony/Unseen 'unviable' champs/@comment-1600221-20140321053556/@comment-3148314-20140321090115

"Alistar is actually useable. He's a really hard counter to Leona and possibly Thresh as well. That said, I think that's all he has."

True. However, I find him quite mana hungry overall - but then, as a support you have plenty of options to compensate for that.