Runes / Masteries for Alistar Jungle

Environmentalist·9/11/2015, 1:38:12 AM·1 votes·639 views

I've been getting into Alistar jungle recently. The ganks from him are incredibly strong, and his mid - late game clear is far quicker than I ever expected. Even his team fights are great. My issue is very early game clear. It's a little slow, and his cool downs are pretty darn long. Right now I'm running 30 armor + 12 mr runes, which I know is pretty general and not the best, but it does for now. Masteries are 9/21/0. Any suggestions? Should I get CDR runes? mana regen? Thanks :)

8 Comments

Blue Collar Bear9/13/2015, 2:30:48 PM3 votes

Hey there!

I'm an avid Alistar player with over a thousand games played. I'm currently in high Plat. I could give you some ideas for how you could run it, but here's how I run my AD Alistar jungle. I take offensive masteries with points in attack speed and Butcher being very important. The Tough Skin line is also very important, since Bladed Armor accounts for a lot of your early clearing power. I use attack speed quints and marks with scaling armor and scaling cooldown reduction glyphs. Be sure you're stacking your passive. When you use an ability, your passive activates for three seconds. Wait for those three seconds to be up to maximize your passive. Take your E at level two, if you're not ganking immediately after your first camp. It speeds up clears considerably, since the cooldown is tied to your passive and the death of monsters.

AntiFlash9/16/2015, 2:57:36 PM1 votes

You should throw some attack speed in, and use masteries for the 5 plus 5 in runes for 10 starting cd. Those 2 stats will probably speed make a noticeable difference.