@IronStylus Make Alistar Bigger

Avious··21 votes·1,689 views

To begin with, great job to everyone involved with his update. Now that the nose ring is included it is perfect. With that in mind I believe it's the perfect opportunity to increase his size a bit for two simple reasons.

Firstly, he is a badass, muscular, long-horned cow headbutting people's faces and stuff, yet he is not as scary as he is supposed to be. I think it's a shame that Lucian is almost as tall as him and that's not the only problem. He is not big when compared to other supports either. Even Soraka doesn't seem small close to him. Braum, even though not Sion-huge, has a large model thanks to his shield. Yet Alistar looks like a blue calf. Think about it.

Secondly and most importantly, Alistar will always want to soak up as much damage as he can while CCing enemies for eternity. His ultimate highlights this even more. Making him bigger and increasing his hitbox a bit will improve his ability to block skillshots and bodyblock enemies, making him even better at protecting his allies. This will be particularly helpful at botlane.

I think you should consider the gameplay and thematic benefits of increasing his size. A furry ball of muscles is kinda funny when yelling: "Nothing can hold me back!" don't you think?

12 Comments

Talamare3 votes

I remember when Alistar was the biggest

Now it doesn't even feel like he is top 10

Avious4 votes

Back then when I joined League, few where bigger than him like Nautilus. Now even Nautilus isn't that big, which is a disgrace.

Talamare2 votes

{quoted} Back then when I joined League, few where bigger than him like Nautilus. Now even Nautilus isn't that big, which is a disgrace.

Nautilus didn't even exist back in the day

It wasn't until Cho was released that someone was bigger but he was only situationally bigger, and only until Gragas did anyone even come close

junglerboy163 votes

Buy elixir of Iron. They heard everyone say we want our tanks to be nice and big, so they gave us the best possible option: an elixir that you can get when you want to be a huge intimidating tank, but that you don't always have to have either (for if you are against someone like blitzcrank who has an easier time hitting you when you are too big).

Avious2 votes

Ofc I can buy Elixir of Iron, but this only addresses my second point. Alistar is supposed to be a big guy by default so a situationally big cow is no good, don't you think?

junglerboy161 votes

Yeah, I know that it would be really cool to have him and most other tanks be larger, but not EVERY player wants them to be huge (It is a majority though) Elixir of Iron seems to me like Riot saying, "we know you guys wanted bigger tanks, and instead of rebalancing every champion whose size we change, we will give you an optional elixir that can fulfill your expectations without skewing the champion's balance". Really, if they changed his size to be bigger, then he would get hit by more stuff. This is the goal of increasing his size, aside from just making him visually more impressive, and getting hit by more stuff means that he would have to be rebalanced appropriately to compensate (usually more hp, armor, mr, etc.).

Avious1 votes

This is my point. Alistar is one of those guys who want to be hit by a lot of stuff and doesn't need any more changes as he is very tanky especially with his ultimate. Also, I am saying his size must be buffed to Sion or Cho'gath levels. He must become just a bit bigger to reflect his big and angry bull identity, because as he is atm he doesn't.

MeesterMoo1 votes

Where can I get one of these things that makes me bigger? I need this ^

Urdnot Entar1 votes

While you're at it, please make the model sizes match the hitbox sizes better on all of the characters.

Alëk1 votes

Zac. It's not about how much you can lift.... it's about how good you loooooook!!!!Zac

RoyaiChaos1 votes

tbh I always thought of Ali being more "bulky" than "big" but I'm fine with a size increase.

Gunpoint1 votes

Nautilus first please.

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