New meta: Kalista Top

bobhihih·Jan 10, 2020·1 votes·1,873 views

With the new changes in items, roles and etc, Kalista has been a very hard matchup for bot lane. She has a low win-rate, and a very low pick rate. I have been play-testing her in other lanes for a few games. Top lane has stood out to me. I have used Sanguine blade for the past top lane fights. It works amazing in a 1v1 with top lane while you can dash away to keep safe from most champs and ganks if done correctly. Yes, her ulti is a problem. I usually tend to pick either the jng, or a melee support anyways at start, then utilize it during teamfight phase in game. (Occasionally, some supports are lenient enough to make a quick visit top for a "lane gank" so I can get a quick kill on the enemy. I'd like to know some of your guys' thoughts. I like Kalista, I understand she is a weak pick right now for any lane. I am just looking to make her meta. I have beaten a Garen, Ryze, Twisted Fate in lanes, but I have difficulty in the endgame (I'm not a good endgame player, but maybe some higher rankers could try this out with better results than me.) Here is my top lane items for a typical game:

I am open to criticism, but I am looking to NOT stop playing Kalista. She is one of my favorite champions and I would hate to see her stay in this slump she is in.

Other lane notes: Jungle clear is SUPER slow, I couldn't find a way to make it work, but I only played 3 games on that and gave up on it, maybe there is something I'm not trying. I do use bloodrazor for my games. I can't think of anything better on her. Possibly ? Support is a maybe, especially with the new My only issue with it was that she was really squishy in bot lane fights during the early game, so most other match-ups will eat me alive. ADC is already what she does, its hard, she is at disadvantage and needs some sort of buff to be liable here. 90% ad, and visibility misses make it an issue to fight a lot of other adc's. Mid I have not tried yet. I don't think it would work out too well as I think that most other champs are too bursty in mid to compete with.

6 Comments

DGAGAAsharpAGDJan 10, 20202 votes

It's all jokes and games until you get slowed and can't kite...

How comfortable are you with Guinsoos? It always throws my rhythm off and I lose some dps. Guess it's about training.

I personally like item 3153 item 3085 item 3046 item 3812 item 3031 item 3006 , it gives nice survivability.

But I'm looking forward to try item 3181

bobhihihJan 10, 20201 votes

Guinsoo's is just really nice for me because I can go into a teamfight with it and apply A LOT of spear stacks. It feels so satisfying to chunk down a whole team's HP with an E after getting toward the low hp of the fights.

I would like to mention that item 3812 Death's dance is not as good as item 3072 in all games where you have less than 3000 hp. Some guy did the math and explained how the static shield effect is worth more than the death's dance effect mitigation. Kalita doesnt crack above 2000 hp in a game, so the mitigation bleed effect doesnt help so much. I used to use it too over the other thing until I heard about this.

Exodus247Jan 10, 20202 votes

Please dont take her top, the lane is already cancer enough as is, we dont need another braindead ranged carry ruining half the roster up here.

bobhihihJan 12, 20201 votes

She isn't very braindead. Takes some effort to actually work with. Her endgame is garbage vs other ranged carries.

Exodus247Jan 13, 20201 votes

Maybe, JUST MAYBE, in a bot matchup sure, but toplane? Any adc taken top is a braindead pick, because they are at an automaticly massive advantage vs most of the champs that even lane there.