Talk:Alistar/@comment-15031918-20151020151328/@comment-10136989-20151020153919

He is most widely used as a support. His jungle capabilities are almost nil because he was unstoppable in season 2. You can put him in top/mid but he doesn't lane well against a lot of champions, and it's kinda troll.

Main tip for using him is ofcourse the W+Q combo. Practice this in customs/bot games first as it is not easy, and crucial to playing him well. Your Q is a strong aoe cc ability but has a long cooldown. Once it's been used try to position yourself to protect your carry. Your W is similar, but has a bit shorter cooldown. It can be used to knock away a threat, knock an enemy into a wall for a long stun, or even over a wall out of the fight completely. Alternatively flanking an opponent can allow you to knock them into a towers range, where you then knock them up to likely get a kill. Mastering these two abilities is the bread and butter of Alistar.

His E is fairly simple. Use it when you are hurt, try not to spam it too much in lane as you will run out of mana. If you are against a lane with a lot of harrassment like Caitlyn or Sona, max it first. If killing both opponents or having them CC'd is important max Q. Max W if you become confident in using the ability, and don't think you'll just knock enemies away with it.

His ultimate removes all slows/stuns or other types of disables from himself when you cast it. They can be reapplied afterwards. It also makes you a tanky m******er, taking only 30% of the damage you normally would from physical/magic damage. It does not reduce true damage (nothing does). Because of this use it before you are about to take a lot of damage, such as being on the front line in a teamfight, or when skirmishing around the map. It also gives you a hefty amount of AD, so while your ult is up try to get a few auto attacks off, as long as they don't compromise your positioning.

For items you want to prioritise support based items, and ones that gives you cdr and mana. Alistar is easy to run out of mana on if you try to fight alot in bot lane. He can get through about 3 rotations of spells before needing to back early on.

Finally there are 2 ways of playing Alistar in fights. Using your abilities to peel for your damage dealers, or diving/flanking their back line to provide disruption and tankiness. Both work well under different circumstances and it will be up to you to decide.