Talk:Alistar/@comment-6061249-20150212082217

So somehow, Alistar became one of champions i like. Completely randomly, but here he is.

While practicing him, i had at first some problems with W+Q combo, i learned it very quickly though, but i noticed a very important thing right after.

When trying to pull it off as often as i could, i suddenly realized... i should not try to do it "as often as i could". In fact, this is a very situational use, and wastes the whole Headbutt knockback. And this also made me wonder why he is so underpicked - because in fact, this combo is overused, and even if someone learned it well, it still may lead to a fail sometimes, putting it under risk.

Alistar is in fact one of those champions that get allowed to simply walk up to enemies in the mess of the teamfight. Taking 70% less damage while also ignoring unit collision is all he needs. The enemy team is oftenly so distracted with taking down meaningful targets it's mostly possible to just get into them, knock them up and then either Headbutt out any damage dealer, or in, if your team can take the kill.

That may sound obvious to some of Alistar players out there, but in most matches where others were playing him, they didn't seem to realize (plat/diamond, just to point out), getting into the teamfight with the WQ combo, in fact doing much less than they could do.