For runes, you go:
Full AD marks
Full Health per level seals
Full flat CDR glyphs
2 AD quints
1 Armor quint
Build path:
Start with the standard spell-spamming support/midlane items; Spellthiefs and 2 pots > buy the components of spellthief's whenever you can > Whenever you can't upgrade it, buy a doran's ring > Keep stacking doran's ring until you're hella fed/ahead (Preferably 3) > Fully upgrade Spellthief's into spooky ghosts > Get CDR boots > Get luden's Echo > By this time, the game should already be GG, but if not > Zhonya's Hourglass > Abyssal > You should never be 6 item Ali; if the game hasn't ended by then, then you haven't wrecked hard enough and you're fucked.
When it comes to Zhonya's and abyssal, you can change the order you buy them whenever you want. But Doran's ring stacking is ESSENTIAL, and of course Luden's echo is essential since your wave clear is shit. The reason you go AD runes is because you can't rely on just your W and Q for damage in the laning phase since the scalings on them aren't really that good. The hidden OP in Alistar is actually his passive; that's where a lot of his damage mysteriously comes from.
Now the reason why you stack doran's is obvious; that's what you do for every cheesy champ to get ahead. With Spellthief's and 3 Doran's ring you get a good amount of AP and so much mana regen that you can spam E for days in lane, and the more you can spam E the better, because you activate your passive from it.
Once you have spooky ghosts, 3 doran's ring and as long as you're ahead and making smart TP's, you should be exploding people with the W Q combo.
Full AD marks
Full Health per level seals
Full flat CDR glyphs
2 AD quints
1 Armor quint
Build path:
Start with the standard spell-spamming support/midlane items; Spellthiefs and 2 pots > buy the components of spellthief's whenever you can > Whenever you can't upgrade it, buy a doran's ring > Keep stacking doran's ring until you're hella fed/ahead (Preferably 3) > Fully upgrade Spellthief's into spooky ghosts > Get CDR boots > Get luden's Echo > By this time, the game should already be GG, but if not > Zhonya's Hourglass > Abyssal > You should never be 6 item Ali; if the game hasn't ended by then, then you haven't wrecked hard enough and you're fucked.
When it comes to Zhonya's and abyssal, you can change the order you buy them whenever you want. But Doran's ring stacking is ESSENTIAL, and of course Luden's echo is essential since your wave clear is shit. The reason you go AD runes is because you can't rely on just your W and Q for damage in the laning phase since the scalings on them aren't really that good. The hidden OP in Alistar is actually his passive; that's where a lot of his damage mysteriously comes from.
Now the reason why you stack doran's is obvious; that's what you do for every cheesy champ to get ahead. With Spellthief's and 3 Doran's ring you get a good amount of AP and so much mana regen that you can spam E for days in lane, and the more you can spam E the better, because you activate your passive from it.
Once you have spooky ghosts, 3 doran's ring and as long as you're ahead and making smart TP's, you should be exploding people with the W Q combo.