Alistar vs Senna — Support Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Alistar against Senna · 45.93% win rate over 3,993 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Closer than it looks — Alistar owns 6 of the 7 game windows to Senna's 1, but the win rate still favours Senna: you have to convert those windows or the game slips away. Alistar wins 45.93% of games vs Senna in support (3,993 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1AlistarYou win level 1 outright against a fragile, escape-less Senna.
Level 2AlistarLevel 2 is yours as your knock-up all-in blows her up before she scales.
Level 3AlistarLevel 3 stays yours while you deny her poke and soul stacks.
Levels 4-5AlistarLevels 4-5 remain yours as you walk down her immobile frame.
Level 6AlistarAt 6 your engage beats her un-peeling ult, keeping the edge yours.
First itemAlistarFirst item stays yours as you keep her starved of souls and gold.
Two+ itemsSennaBy two items Senna's soul-stacked hypercarry scaling flips the lane to her.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Levels 1-2 are firmly yours: Senna is a fragile, slow scaling-carry with no mobility, so your knock-up all-in punishes any step-up and you should force trades hard before she gathers souls.

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The full Alistar vs Senna report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.

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