Kalista's binding and ult should be optional for the soulbound

AMYS GRAVE··3 votes·2,176 views

I main support and i don't like Kalista, because she removes my agency in game.

  1. there is no choice to accept the contract or not.

  2. she can pull you out of play without choice or warning.

  3. while you get to decide where to go, sometimes i would rather cast my abilities than get pulled out of combat.

  4. sometimes you don't get a choice where to go.

To fix this Kalista's binding needs to be optional, and the use of her ult must be optional for her bound ally as well. I envision her ult slightly more thresh-lantern-esque than it is now like a thresh lantern that can throw you as well.

STORY TIME! i'm Braum, adc Kalista

Lucian ults us and Kalista pulls me out of combat. Kalista dies because she is standing in the Lucian ult, i get no choice to go anywhere because she died so i drop where she died, then i die to the Lucian ult. If i had been able to put up my shield we both would have lived.

While defending turret I'm trying to put up my Braum shield to avoid Jayce/Nidalee poke landing on our APC. Kalista ults me and the poke lands on and kills our APC. Since i was trying to put up my shield i was clicking in the direction of their team and her ult plopped into the enemy team. I die and my team is now 3v5, the enemy continues with a clean ace, two turrets, an inhibitor, a dragon, and two clean up kills after dragon while we got nothing. gg i guess.

this time i'm Leona, adc Kalista

Kalista and i get caught out pushing a lane, i go in 1v5 to buy her time to get out, but she doesn't leave. She tries to ult me out of there and they turn on her (now the only target they have) and instakill her, i drop where she died and they kill us both.

I engage on a teamfight (their adc was in front), but my Kalista ults me to take me out of the fight before I can use my q stun (but it does go on cd). My team engages having seen me go in and without their tank get slaughtered extremely quickly. By the time I'm able to cast Kalista's ult to get back in the teamfight three of my teammates are dead and we get clean aced.

As a support who understands team fight positioning i don't want Kalista to reposition me. Even if I'm dying in the enemy team I often don't want her to pull me out, because then the enemy team turns on her and kills her too. The life of a support is worth less than the life of a carry. If Kalista's ult were optional then I could have avoided all these situations.

2 Comments

Letmedomebro2 votes

Agreed, 100%. It makes sense from a competitive point of view where one will most likely have voice communication with one's teammates and will be notified beforehand. However, in the greater number of cases where people do not have this option it is more likely than not going to lose the fight.

Story of my own: I'm support Morgana . I flash into their team and begin channeling my 5-champ ult, about to hit item 3157 and laugh as their carries get torn apart. Kalista ults. This cancels my ult. We get aced.

Muramada1 votes

I believe they will make this change. I have recently played Kalista quite a few games only to get my support out of a sticky situation to save them so they can continue doing that they do best. I have also Braum with a Kalista that me and her/him actually kept doing a Glacial fissure ult combo which was quite awesome and never took me out of a weird situation. I guess I just had the luck of the draw.

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