How a SOLOKILLING ALISTAR TOP got MASTER

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One of the MOST Dedicated Alistar Top Lane Players in LoL - having played it since season 3 has now hit MASTER Tier.
I interviewed him to find out his story and how he did it!
Including a Master Alistar Top Guide, Alistar Season 12 Build and Runes!
His Twitch Stream: / lordofcowtime
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00:00 Alistar Top?
00:54 A Special Surprise
01:58 Story of 'LordOfCowTime'
03:09 How Does Alistar Top Work?
03:25 Super Low CS - But Not Roaming
03:45 Special XP Scaling
04:05 His Terrible Early LANING
04:14 LVL 1
04:32 LVL 2
04:44 Healing Passive
05:17 Getting Stronger
05:25 Mana Issues? + Fixing Them
06:10 1v1 Kills In Lane
06:35 Split Push Alistar
06:54 Low Risk 1v1s
07:24 Leave Lane - NO
08:01 High Damage Tank Item?
08:12 BURN Tank Alistar
08:50 Making Plays - Incredibly Tanky
09:09 Teamfights
09:13 SECRET XP Scaling - Hidden High Damage
09:48 Dive Carries + Tank Everyone Else
10:15 Spamming Abilities + Burning Enemies
10:28 Easy Fights
10:46 Making the most of Freedom from Bot Lane
11:28 If it is GOOD - Why Isn't He Picked?
11:45 Alistar Top BUILD
12:08 Alistar Top RUNES
12:20 RATING - How good is it Really?
12:44 The Reality of Picking Alistar Top
13:20 LordOfCowTime Is Really Impressive
#Alistar #Top #Guide

[@HappyChimeNoises]

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[@Bassliiner]

CRYPT OMEGALUL

[@RubberNips]

fuck that shit

[@efg9097]

Bc leauge players have bitcoin :)

[@pizettab6123]

@@efg9097 shhh we dont want the sponsors to stop happy's income

[@WePlankin]

Who's ready to see alistar's winrate drop to 40% below plat ?????

[@cob-codeofbrawl7668]

its a win win cuase riot will boost him

[@tilinh389]

i love to test champions on ranked cause i want to watch the world burn

[@kennedyogbedeagu8913]

@@tilinh389 who are you? And why are you always on my team?? Jk, but anyone who actually first times a champ like t1 does is trolling. And anyone in your team that doesnt dodge a first time pick is also trolling or as BIG T says “playing for fun”, fun doesnt exist on lol

[@cob-codeofbrawl7668]

@Ti Linh at this point I also do it, funny fact that I still do better against a guy with 3 ranks above me with my first time pick meanwhile my otp teamamtes fed the enemies that are 3 ranks below them

[@filipesaul8435]

@@kennedyogbedeagu8913 Fun does exist on LoL, just not on ranked

[@anastasiumircea]

Can't wait to play against an alistar in the toplane as sylas

[@erdr2000]

So we got an unkillable Sylas instead Yeah , I rate Alistar top way lower for this simple counter pick, 2/10

[@ItsJustKaya]

@@erdr2000 this could be said about every support top. Actually non of them are ment to be played on top. Heck we even heard of yuumi top! The strength lies on your mid/jungle ganking for more gold. Same strat as funnel X champ really

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Oh no. Guys be super careful of this matchup haha. Sylas is insane with Ali ult. If Camille wasn't so good then sylas would be a good ban

[@anastasiumircea]

No, first pick alistar top please😁

[@UNKNOWN100Z]

I tried Alistar top for 3 games and yeah it work rlly gud but i don't want to think if i face Sylas💀

[@ultimatemacchia]

13:15 So you're telling me that, even with the "secret high" E damage, and Sunfire, AND stacking AH he lacks sustained damage? **slaps Demonic Embrace into the build**

[@filipepacheco6148]

genius

[@lukazgarza4075]

That's what I always do lol

[@RebelPhoenix117]

Ya, fr, take that over rylais 100% IMO.

[@d4s0n282]

pretty much what happens when I play tank cho and zac lol

[@dddmemaybe]

@@d4s0n282 I take it on supp shaco sometimes because he actually gets a lot of bonus hp from supp items for free and is also melee and not ranged even tho he plays a lot like a ranged champion with a little haste.

[@valonzoeatsbabies]

Me on my way to ruin someone's promo games to play an engage support toplans

[@windsound2010]

you meant loena top? :P

[@DocFranklinStone]

No shit, I've had a modest amount of success with Leona top. Lethal Tempo and people don't expect the auto/stun chain. Plus the ganks are free for my yungler.

[@windsound2010]

very nice point, it is actually viable :)

[@vang-toulee8351]

@Unknown Doggo does it? it was nerfed to the ground couple years ago.

[@Hallorenzo]

T h r e s h T o p intensifies

[@frutkovrutko3053]

I got one of these against me today in my promos. Thank Chime for helping me reach Plat for the first time ever! 💕

[@HappyChimeNoises]

I got u

[@christophermarez1012]

I remember going against this guy and thought he was straight up trolling until I saw his wr with Ali top he's pretty goated.

[@shomiixo]

yeah hes not bad, champ gets unkillable after like 20 min

[@DesuGamer]

I see what you did here xD

[@saibot0]

I saw this guy, it seems really fun. *Cow difference*

[@TheKaratejesus]

I've played this pick a good bit and talked to this guy. He's super nice. So glad to see him featured here. It's really hilarious how powerful you become once you get mythic.

[@maze3086]

rlly great video chime i enjoyed u explaining why ali top can fail and what are some weaknesses, really puts the pick into perspective keep it up

[@GhanLoL]

had this guy in my ranked game and he’s actually a demon

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Good demon or bad? Haha

[@neolithichumanfigure1106]

I did too, he got autofilled support though and I got top, but he went sunfire as support and carried.

[@itsunknown5381]

Fun Fact: Alistar got his Dmg cut in half about 6 months ago. Yes, in half

[@LalzJeNeSuis]

What patch ?

[@bryanxo2489]

how is a 0-5-10-15-20 base dmg reduction on q and a 15 dmg nerf on E a half damage nerf? you just spreading lies lmao

[@casualmarkit9969]

Are yall in the replies that dense enough to not notice the damage on E CC application was halved? That is what OP was referring to and i saw it myself, the E punch bonus damage got ripped apart, the "secret OP" thing in the video. Its marked as such after it got HALVED. Holy F, that thing deserved it if its this good now.

[@foresight8527]

Time to go try this in rank and feed, thank you chimes

[@vectored3275]

Bro I gotta respect you for making the time stamps

[@MerryOtaku]

I actually fought an Alistar top as tank volibear once. I never thought I'd see the day where Alistar would be a worthy opponent. I'd gladly fight against one again in the future, it was unexpectedly fun.

[@herobayer8006]

After seing this video I played this build with my friends in a normal. I was against Tryndamere, this is how it went: min 3 I pushed him once into tower, killing him and then he wouldn't do any damage to me in the entire game, i group with my already dead team and I did a quadrakil against a full AD team and a Leona. My final score was 24/1/9, the enemy team surrendered. Of course it was a normal, the real challenge was playing with my friends, they all loose the laning phase and somehow I ended up carrying with an Alistar Top.

[@justarandomweeb8953]

The meta right now is basically "We're sending supports to top lane and sending top to bot lane" Lmao

[@ICEDOUTv9]

I actually played alistair top alot but i never managed to make it a good pick. im happy that someone else made it :)

[@PlutoDarknight]

Nice to see someone else do better with your pick. ^^ Really though, I'm happy to see that someone is being really successful with Ali Top and it encourages me to keep going.

[@lordofcowtime6502]

Ali top is so fun! :D

[@AndrewDotExe]

My diamond buddy had this guy in some of his games and we'd be surprised randomly seeing alistar top get first blood and leave lane like 4 or 5/0 lmao

[@pricediaz2257]

Since watching the mord jungle video I’ve started to play Mord on full and I love it he works in every lane

[@holaholahoy]

I actually did play some Tank Ali top in normals in S11 :P Never dared take it into ranked, but had fun with it in norms!

[@DedikateSSB]

I knew this was possible, i blind picked Alistar Top after being autofilled Top (i just play mid and used to pick some random shit when autofilled top lane, now i just dodge if i dont get mid), and the enemy Top Laner went... Heimerdinger. I solo killed him 4 times in laning phase without dying and we won, we didnt win because of me, but we won. CSing was impossible but i knew Heimer just wanted to shove lane and get tower so i did what i could to stop him, which was run at him nonstop. And it worked every time.

[@ethanstyant9704]

Reject technology return to cow

[@blakeconnell4261]

I actually do this to with some slight variations. I take futures market as a secondary for early cinder/bramble. Glad to see someone made it so high with this though

[@CHILLNEACE]

This guys build absolutely slaps!

[@campfire9760]

I actually found that strategy out several months ago, mostly because of how much I love Grasp as a rune on any slightly tanky champion

[@falconfighter3456]

Been playing this a bunch and its so f’n fun!!

[@123silverslash]

feel like this pick is only better now with the new tank items. heartsteel and jak'sho both make him way bulkier than he already was and are great second items after sunfire/bami's cinder if you wanna stack heartsteel as early as possible

[@plasmahandoku1073]

I played against this dude before when I was playing Kayle. Tbh Kayle against any tank is decent enough. But I was so wrong until he started tower diving at 6 and he actually pushed me out of lane too the point he cut off my xp supply.

[@cameronhowell1921]

I was hype to see this video cause I been on the Ali top wave. Legit unkillable!

[@pricediaz2257]

These videos are so entertaining

[@blacklight1104]

Lore accurate alistar also participated in the noxus arenas prior to getting out so I welcome him facing off the bruisers in top lane.

[@BGoutl]

Ty for the video :):) you really did it😂

[@denta1flam3s2]

I watched chill neace featuring this Alistar

[@eray4275]

I did this in a normal game out of panic a couple months back and did surprisingly well. Not surprised this showed up here

[@DFivril]

Seem to remember it was played in s4 or s5 when his ult gave higher base ad when active making triforce spellblade crazy strong

[@Cedric1234_]

The low cs popoff with levels inspired me to play alistar solo bot and have a duo top with friends, objectively unsound but extremely entertaining to play

[@MrLuzakman]

Holy cow, this is literally the same build that I used for a few months already

[@ChuckCannon]

I tried this a few times, but had more success with Magic Pen into LIchbane or Divine sunderer to get more guaranteed damage ratios. Regardless too much of his kit is gated by CD for you to realistically solo carry or 1v1 consistently unless they the enemy is throwing, and if I need the jungler to kill getting a bigger burst was much easlier to pull off

[@dyelicousssss6975]

Thank you happy chime noises, I had some guy go 0/18 with this pick

[@sonictrain1]

This is what I tried so tirelessly to make work post rework... This man must be a genius or just a luck absolute mad lad

[@firearmsv2504]

Played against this guy once and he kicked my shit in. Dudes an insane player

[@selkozlincurve]

I'm surprised he doesn't mention the best part about it : being able to cancel Urgot R with your own :D

[@joshuaesteban1120]

Mordekaiser's r as well haha

[@selkozlincurve]

I never played the matchup so didn't think about it but damn son you're right

[@saintlaurent6109]

I’ve played against him once and he’s pretty insane ngl

[@vaak2144]

I'VE WAITED YEARS FOR THIS NOW DO ONE FOR ALISTAR JUNGLE

[@doahfy4378]

i hope one day you gonna make a video on a corki main

[@janekkomorowski9046]

I actually hit plat for the first time playing that pick after sunfire got reworked lol

[@Victorvonbass]

This is really close to what I've been running with Poppy top. I took the runes from Viziscaci. Ali just scales better than Poppy, but Poppy has a strong early game. Id love to see you do a video on tank Poppy top or Poppy supp if you find one. Thanks for your content.

[@vang-toulee8351]

poppy supp probably, shes meant to be a top laner lol

[@LalzJeNeSuis]

Poppy is more a meta top than Alistar

[@hoangnguyen0721]

Sometime i wish Chime stop make video cuz my ranked game is always ruined by someone who just watch his video But his content is so good that i can just accept the fact that my rank game are sometime doomed by his video

[@Mori-man]

Whenever I read your titles I imagine your capslock is just you shouting. You calmly say "how a" then just screams in your face "SOLOKILLING ALISTAR TOP" then just a quick and suddenly quite again "got" before screaming "MASTER!!!!!!"

[@Cediekuuun]

COW GOES MOO, MOO MOO MOO

[@ddangho914]

7:10 - 7:27 A weird montage of a cow bullying a bear

[@inginerInDublaje]

May God have mercy of my next soloq games.

[@likebutton3141]

that seems lime a rly good pro play pick tbh instead of going something like zil or karma that starves cs u can go ali and yes the situation for this pick would be pretty niche and you would need to pick him in a matchup that he doesnt lose super hard like the forementioned ones but ye it could work

[@iambumbo7534]

7:20 who knew a bull would beat a bear

[@teamsebago2]

Just played with this guys Smurf account a few days ago and was like HappyChimeNoises should totally make a video on this guy lol

[@ActuallyKruella]

It's like a dream come true

[@daqqahlikirep]

I play alistar top in Wild Rift and everything you said matches up.

[@luckypeanut9943]

M7 ali support... god this looks fun as hell

[@MotelIndigo]

This Alistair might be my new fav guy.

[@LearnToWin23]

i used to play this a couple of months ago, its actually funny because it works. I have never seen people rage so much as a normal toplaner

[@GameMaker242]

That is literally the same build I use including runes excluding raylays where I would normally build demonic embrace

[@JeffGranja27]

It has become kind of a meme of how off-meta picks winrates drops in low elo after HappyChimeNoises makes a video about it, but actually I think this would work pretty easy in low elo as long as the user has some experience being a tank, for people who's hardstuck like me it is pretty common to see that almost every team comp is made up entirely of squishy carries, no one in hell elo wants to use tanks and that's why they're so succesful. It's my own experience of course but everytime I see an Akali, Yasuo, Yone, etc top I just know I'll win lane easily or at least resist it without feeding a Mastery 7 one, I definitely be more careful when facing another tank like Shen, Mundo or Cho'Gath than I am when facing squishies

[@ratchet6909]

Dam the perma ban system really does change lives

[@years-ti7xl]

Adrian Riven played this before, Doublelift got annihilated by this years ago and those were the days of Thunderlords decree, yup I'm talking old runes.

[@llllSNEAKllll]

I wish there were more "carry" tanks in top lane, its my favorite playstyle. Mundo was my go-to for a while but they keep nerfing him :(

[@remex3949]

Yeah rip mundo

[@jacopodam184]

I've seen a lot of assassin tanks(like ornn for example) with a full rotation of spells they one-shot the ad carry.

[@MsToster1]

i remember when i hit plat for the 1st time with alistar top gauntlet + cleaver rush for 40% cdr in season 8

[@prodby_38rxbin]

Cant wait to play vs ali top as splitpush trundle

[@ifer1658]

my favourite viedo so far

[@Gigas0101]

Hope they paid you in real money for the ad. Great vid as always

[@ajhintleman215]

Reminds me of when I was trying to make Rell top work...except that was even worse lol

[@BawanaBeast]

How long did it take for everyone todo Janna top? Can't wait for Ali-top

[@keganthomas_GEORG3W_KUSH_]

You'll see me in grandmaster within 2 months with adc twisted fate. Took a second to get down the strat, but Holy shit was it worth it.

[@meezy1579]

whats the strat?

[@keganthomas_GEORG3W_KUSH_]

@@meezy1579 Spam upgrade E anytime it's avaliable, this gives you way more attack speed than any adc early. You take lethal tempo for extra range bonus and you run treasure hunter for 2nd rune tree if you have a weak opponent early. If not you run inspiration tree and get the free boots plus the debt rune. Get into game and get cull to stack up the extra gold once u have enough for noon quiver you do a quick b and time it right with the wave to bounce back into your tower. Build kraken, into runnans hurricane (it applies your e every aa if more than 3 enemy's are near and getting auto attacked. You then rush into guinsoos and then go for situational items, preferably get blood thirster into last item which you choose, just make it crit item so it stacks onto rage blade. Enjoy

[@meezy1579]

@@keganthomas_GEORG3W_KUSH_ thank you. whats ur ign

[@afufu1961]

I play alistar top too, im not a master or anything like he is but i can assure you that it is fun as hell

[@fusionxtras]

Your channel is the league equivalent of southpaw fighters in boxing. Unorthodox/uncommon styles will always have an advantage due to the opponent having less experience into your style.

[@Valigarmanda]

Except this is more akin to using kicks in a boxing match and not getting caught. There's "different style" and there's "what the fuck is this even allowed?

[@ThatOneCom]

The most fun thing i do in wild drift is playing eve mid its very fun recommended to try

[@jonhard1049]

I am a jungle alisatr player and I'm glad to see someone getting to master by playing alistar where he shouldn't be played at. People never trust me when i play alistar on jungle unironically

[@griefer1851]

Why would you even play him jungle 😂 in toplane i understand but why jungle. Low mobility, very slow clear, and your exp gain as jungler is cut half when the main point is to give up gold and gain more exp.

[@jonhard1049]

@@griefer1851 my goals are far beyond comprehension

[@humansonic3226]

Saw his post on reddit and immediately commented 'happychimenoises video incoming'. Seems I was right lets goo

[@leaveacomment]

Damn I was just gonna play this too, now I can't cuz people flame everything you upload xD

[@tdmc6428]

Saw this video a couple days ago and my very next game I ran into one.

[@yokiretheslimestaff4350]

2 days after i started roaming alister top :D

[@mjortom5983]

I thought this was some kind of april fools joke

[@bogart7353]

The respectful support top pick

[@gorgeousgeorge7104]

I play Alistar top in Wild Rift from time to time. Getting solo kills on Darius just feels too nice

[@lucasgerosa4177]

I used to be main Alistar sup, but now I'm a top main. Can't wait to become a TOP ALISTAR main :)

[@tanzen9968]

This video has 2 purposes 1.tell people that Alistar top is possible 2.reignite my passion for Vayne top

[@pimplepanda1932]

I remember playing something like that expect it was full ap

[@nyimnyum935]

that first clip got me 💀

[@bennettmorgan7651]

You should really consider putting Summoners in the “Runes” section. Really hard to find where you mention the summoners.

[@ignacioruhe2987]

One of the funniest things you can play in LoL, it's my pick when I'm going top, normally lose lane, but I destroy tfs... and with Yuumi Alistar is GOD. Sad that it's unplayable in the jungle.

[@LHMarielle]

Looking at Tahm Kench toplane in the last years, I don't think Alistar's damage is too much

[@RustingPeace]

sunfire aegis actually just is an tanky dmg item. if you knew how much dmg juggernauts such as illaoi and singed get out with that item

[@joshuaesteban1120]

Its hard to do this now due to sunfire being a non mythic anymore. Maybe jaksho is the replacement

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Yeah I think so

[@wolfbrogamers4078]

2:30 im pretty sure that darius might be me LMFAO

[@alisheralishev1685]

Alistar Top is like Kaido from One piece

[@professordoru8609]

I saw Bcawk doing the same video

[@ags8507]

who would you play, a lame cow that ignores some damage, or a gem chad that is immune to all damage and also makes his teammates unkillable? (he can also aoe stun and heal on command)

[@Gorecatto]

The cow.

[@pasdor9961]

It’s absolutely great til ur opponent just respects u or spaces well so you can’t knock them into tower

[@Filthyy1]

I miss when you could jungle with ali

[@slbhugomarques2]

Feels like turning alistar into singed