Talk:Alistar/@comment-26288916-20150408212438/@comment-26001789-20150415091044

Support Alistar wants all the Health he can get. Face of the Mountain is godly on him. The stats are all the right for him and make him an excellent bodyguard alongside that shield. However, it's not recomended as rush. Why? Well, Righterous Glory. That item alone makes Alistar already ridiculous engage even more ridiculous. The stats alone are worth it and the passive is the icing on the cake, making sure you never run out of mana and health.

RoA on Alistar is silly. You don't need to scale up considering that after 6 you already are good to go. Your job is to innitiate a fight and survive the onslaught of damage and focus, not really doing damage and surviving.

Alistar Jungle is mediocre. His clears are decent but he ends up mana hungry in the Jungle, making him reliant on Blue. His damage falls off quickly, very quickly in fact and a lot of the times he doesn't have the money to buy things like RG or Randuin's Omen because he doesn't really farm the Jungle well. He is alright for Lvl2 ganks, I guess, but a lot of other Lockdown Tanks such as Nautilus or Maokai or Disruptors such as Gragas and Zac just outclass him in terms of Damage and Clear while still having decently good ganks. Hell, I think that Sejuani as a pure Innitiator is better than Alistar, at least in the Jungle.

If you really want to play him in a Offensive Role, try him out in toplane. The Build is Sheen into Statikk Shiv into Righteous Glory and then Finishin up TriForce and having CDR Boots. Then building up a Infinity Edge and finally Warmogs(you can also build this in reverse). Masteries 21/9 and Flash & Ignite.