How do I even Alistar?
So, I've been relly struggling with Alistar lately, idk why, but he just feels weak to me, here are the problems I have:
1)Really long cooldown on Q 2)W make you vulnerable and can't chase with it 3)Takes a lot of time to get stacks on E 4)I don't notice his ult doing much
Early game, I play like a usual supp would, try to up my vision score, heal (using a rune and relic shield to heal), but then the exciting part comes, we get ganked, I peel away the jungler with my W, but that puts me into a very vulnerable position, so it's likely that I die, unless I manage to make space with my Q. If we win an engagement, there's no way I can stop the enemy from running away since my W would push him even further. If the ADC dies and I'm left against the enemy bot lane I try to not let anyone dive me, guardiang my tower from damage with my W and Q.
In teamfights, my E feels like a joke since it takes me a long while to stack it, if the enemies retreat, I try to go around a selected enemy, knock him up with Q and then push him into my team with W. But I feel like my R is also quite crap, the disability removal is barely anything.
My question is: how do I play Alistar?