Talk:Alistar/@comment-5489694-20131203093942/@comment-6000413-20131218113146

Power fist deals physical damage.

Abilities that enhance autos already have a physical compnent, so you can say that there is a magical addition to the damage. Gemcraft adds a magic explosion from the empowered gems during autos, so it's ok.

But I agree with you that some of teh abilities you listed should have different scalings and damage type.

Alistar, by the way, is still the most troublesome, with passive + 2 abilities with that problem.

I also think that alistar should have some way to choose between damage and cc with his abilities, either at usage or at build-level. For ex. he could have an ulti with a passive like: alistar has bonus AD. when he uses an ability he looses that bonus for X seconds.

That or something like a fury mechanic instead of mana. Like:

Passive: when alistar takes damage he gains fury. Fury grants bonus ad. Alistar's abilities (except ulti) consume fury on cast. fury decays slowly after not taking damage

Ulti lasts longer, gives no AD and generates fury

This would mean that unless you use your ulti or you have been harassed by the enemy team, you cannot CC combo anyone.

I'll post this up again.