She has a bug right now which makes her jump affected by slows, which basically makes her completely useless in teamfights.
Making her free is going to a lot of frustration for new players when their champion suddenly can't attack or do anything because they happened to get hit by one of the hundreds of sources of slows in this game.
TheLastShadow454 votesThey made her jump slower if a slowing effect was placed on her a long time ago. This is no bug.
Calabok2 votesnot a bug. it is a feature.
LordofEntropy2 votesShe shouldn't be a free champ because as Meddler most recently said a few days ago, she is purposely gutted until they can figure out what to do with her since they can't currently balance her when she has viable numbers. They should always yank those champs out of the rotation, like Yorick was forever, since they are by Riot's admission purposely ruined and not intended to be viable whatsoever.
dakota saturn2 votesShe shouldn't be a free champ because as Meddler most recently said a few days ago, she is purposely gutted until they can figure out what to do with her since they can't currently balance her when she has viable numbers. They should always yank those champs out of the rotation, like Yorick was forever, since they are by Riot's admission purposely ruined and not intended to be viable whatsoever.
If she's been officially and intentionally left like this, then she certainly should be disabled. I lost my first account because I played Eve after Riot said this about my champ, and I got reports after every single game, regardless how well I did, because picking Eve at the time was seen as automatic troll.
BeatzBoyFTW1 votesMore like they still have absolutely no idea of how Kalists works. Just tell these new players to just play Ashe or MF.
LatetotheRace1 votesHer jumps are effected by slows so that she doesn't just ignore them. She reacts to slows as literally any other ADC does. Bro....
bad arcade kitty1 votesthat's the way how they ruined her from being the top adc to the worst champion in the whole league
Nkeyo1 votesThe problem with Kalista isn't that she's actually affected by slows, the problem is that while dashing every % of extra attack speed only counts as .66%, making attack speed only slightly better than halved on her, and attack speed is really strong right now with Fervor of Battle, and Kalista's Rend also suffers obviously. She also only does 90% AD damage, and her critical strike damage is also reduced by 10%. So your options are either take the halved attack speed, play stationary, or become a master of attacking and moving seperately on her. So her passive is pretty close to useless when you take the attack speed nerf and mix it with her 550 range, and she just naturally has lower damage than everyone else.
So yeah, she's ruined right now, but the slows aren't the issue. Quite frankly, she's actually ruined, Urgot was still easily playable(and still is), and I face rolled with pre-rework Yorick, but Kalista is legitimately ruined as an ADC.