With all the cinderhulk tanky junglers, why Alistar is not that much played ? He has good ganks level 2-3, dive easily after level 6, can tank for days and, with his passive and cinderhulk passive, he can clear the jungle quite easily. Everything can be viable in soloQ but I guess it's not that bad even for high level plays. What are your opinions about it ?
Posted Apr 28, 2015, 5:13 PM UTC
The passive doesn't work on jungle monsters anymore. The passive just doesn't do double damage However, with Blasting Smite, he is able to AoE clear camps with some efficiency.
It still works on jungle monsters, it just doesn't deal double damage to them.
But still, i wouldn't call that "he's able to clear the jungle easily".
I stand very much corrected.
Riot has worked pretty hard to keep him out of the tungle, because he used to be a problem. Lvl 2 he has a mini-malphite ult, amd he used to come from behind the enemy turret and it was basically free kills.
His clear times are horrible because he has THE WORST COOLDOWNS EVER. If you can get over that he's a great jungler.
Just tried this with AS Reds, Armor Yellows, CD/MR Blues and AD Quints, 21/9 (just a generic ad jungle page) in bots, the first clear is vulnerable to interference but doable. Taking to teambuilder with tweaked page, will return with results.
Edit: AS Reds, 1 AS Quint, 2 Ar Quint, Armor Yellow, CDR Blues and AR Blues + 4/26 (CDR) was decent clear. A++ would recommend fun as tits.
i dont know about the late game potential with it. he doesnt have reliable team cc. he has to land his combo which is hard as he needs to be close to the tagert. sej, vi, and other meta junglers have great engage potential and is reliable
he doesnt have reliable team cc
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Alistar
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doesn't have reliable team cc
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