Talk:Alistar/@comment-24035310-20140626110153

As an Alistar main I have found some easy tricks that raised my win rate a lot with him recently (from 47% to 54%). I don't know how obvious they are but I'll show them anyway.

Face of the mountain over the Talisman (as support Alistar this will be good, since you will be more tankier early and if you know how to manage your spells you won't even feel the lack of mana regen)

Max Q. I don't know why but it works wonders. I used to max w since maxing e is useless right now, his heal being imo one of the weakest spells in the game. Maxing w led to a huge mana cost that wasn't worthy of the trades.

Pop ult in early botlane 2 v 2 fights and smack the enemy carry with your gigantic minotaur hands, it will help a lot in trades and might lead to a won fight.

Flash q w and w q only when it's absolutely necessary. I used to spam the w-q combo and found myself out of mana many times before.

Alistar is a passive bull (imo), and when he gets the chance, he can be really angry.