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Seriously Riot? You made my favorite champion obsolete to cater to noob champ mains. #FreeKalista

Dont Feed Twitch··4 votes·1,406 views

Seriously guys? When are you gonna bring Kalista back? You designed the most well thought out AD carry ever created and you nerf her into the ground for no reason other than an army of crying Jax and Xin mains who flood the boards because you finally made an adc that isn't on the map to get instantly killed every single fight. So your solution is to cater to these losers? You made an extremely skill intensive champ completely useless in order to make life easy for completely brainless champs with point and click gap closers who are always going to be on top of the rift whether Kalista is useable or not. Cut the shit. No champion should be made useless due to pure crying. Her win rate is 44% right now. 44%?!?!??! It's not like it was something obnoxious when she was actually functional it was absolutely average. You guys rework Yorick but you won't bring Kalista back? Free my homie K-Spear!

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Jinzo Torrance9 votes

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Dont Feed Twitch1 votes

This is a very upset ADC main :(

VoidStaresBack3 votes

That's actually not why they nerfed her, they nerfed her for the same reason they nerfed Azir: she was simply too strong in competetive play because of how much she could do, so they nerfed her until she became relatively balanced (maybe slightly underpowered, but not by much) at the highest levels of play but became weak in ranked because of her high skill cap.

Dont Feed Twitch2 votes

She's not "slightly" underpowered right now. They nerfed her to complete shit. When's the last time you saw someone pick Kalista instead of the standard Ashe Jhin Sivir Vayne Jinx Lucian you see every game?

Dont Feed Twitch1 votes

And Ez now, since the passive is up to 70% now

VoidStaresBack1 votes

I'm going to assume you're referring to LCS level play since that's where I said Kalista was balanced/slightly underpowered.

Part of Kalista's problem is that she doesn't mesh well with the current heavy-support-roam meta at the highest levels. She loses her w passive and the ability to use her ultimate when not around her support, drastically reducing her power. Kalista also specializes in a type of backwards kiting I don't see much of in the LCS nowadays, with a lot of teams being more engage focused. It's for these reasons she's one of the few utility ADCs who didn't see recent popularity, on top of her primary utility tool (her ultimate) being conditional on having another player both alive and around you, thus making her utility more situational.

Dont Feed Twitch1 votes

That's my main problem. I'm not asking why she isn't viable, that much is obvious. I'm asking why Riot did it.

VoidStaresBack1 votes

As I said, it's because she was too dominant in the pro scene before her nerfs, because provided so much to her team on top of having a lot of things she herself could do.

Dont Feed Twitch1 votes

We all can agree that she was too strong, I 1v5 penta'd vs two assassins and two bruisers all with cc, Rengar, Panth, Talon, Jax, and Jinx. Obviously that's a little too strong. But with a 44% win rate and an almost nonexistent pick rate, It should be clear that she could use a little tune-up.

VoidStaresBack1 votes

But that's the thing: that 44% winrate is in ranked, where you can't reliably have a good team for Kalista and where many people aren't playing her to her maximum effectiveness due to the split-second decision making and mechanical skill required to play Kalista properly. Tuning her up to closer to 50% winrate in ranked would (most likely) make her incredibly strong in LCS again and the cycle repeats itself.

Dont Feed Twitch1 votes

Dude I just want to be able to play a champ I love again. I couldn't care less if that means teams have to ban Kalista against Doublelift, 1 ban out of 6, big deal.

Zero Skill Tank1 votes

I'm asking why Riot did it.

That much is obvious, actually. Because pool of players hating on her as most toxic champ ever weren't limited to bronze and silver Xin and Jax players, but also included professional marksman players like Forgiven.

Dont Feed Twitch1 votes

Why because she was untouchable? Ez is untouchable and they BUFFED him.

Zero Skill Tank1 votes

Ez doesn't jump twice a second.

At least I guess that's why.

Dont Feed Twitch1 votes

With max CDR, an Iceborn, and a BotRK he doesn't need to.

specter4243 votes

Kalista made anyone without a gapcloser and hard cc unviable 1 or 80 hmm

jmp2311 votes

I feel you man, I miss kalista, I use to do so good on her. now she feels useless whenever I play her

Dont Feed Twitch2 votes

It's ridiculous I used to love her now she's pathetic

Maximum Morde1 votes

Kalista is literally harmful to the human body to play. You will get wrist pain and carpal tunnel syndrome. They should honestly delete her before they get sued.

Yaśuo Main1 votes

Geometry Dash wasn't sued when some of the expert players got carpal tunnel syndrome with their fingers due to excessive clicking. You may be exaggerating a bit.

Crett1 votes

While I personally don't miss Kalista's Monkey Hopping Madness, 44% isn't a good sign. But the game's going through pretty turbulent times at the moment; just wait until the dust settles.

Hopefully if they throw her a bone they'll also make her less aggravating to play against.

Dont Feed Twitch1 votes

They have to be able to tweak her a small amount to make her usable there shouldn't be unusable champions.

Crett1 votes

I agree with you on that ideal. Sometimes champs have very polarizing kits that can't have competitive numbers without turning them into a complete monster in the right hands.

Aatrox, Rek'sai, Gangplank, Azir and Evelynn are the same way.

Dont Feed Twitch1 votes

I love Aatrox. A well picked and well played Aatrox is GG in champ select

Crett1 votes

Aatrox can be a nightmare under the right circumstances. I know Riot wants to rework him. I was hoping for a Tank update but I think Divers are coming next and they're going to classify Aatrox as one for sure.

Dont Feed Twitch1 votes

As much as a I love current Aatrox vs a non-rammus comp, I would not be opposed to a rework if it improves his overall usability.

Dont Feed Twitch1 votes

I love how I'm getting flamed and downvoted by a bunch of salty bronze Tryndameres rofl pathetic

Teémò1 votes

I want to see her come back too, Even if she gets a small buff, every other adc has early game pressure and kalista early just can't do that. trying to cs and killing 2 units at once is difficult. If she got really good attack speed bonus that didn't revolve around praying that the support doesn't dc It'd be nice too. The sad fact .9 ad slow damage, quinn and graves can just blind u and u are screwed. slows effect your movement. and kogmaw can kill twice as fast Without the worry of do I have enough spears in them to kill them.

Dont Feed Twitch1 votes

Exactly I don't think these flamers grasp how impossibly weak she is compared to every other adc in lane. Of course she's gonna dump on a bruiser if she's scaled but is it easy to get scaled? No, not in the slightest.

xxxDogmanxxx1 votes

Jax and Xin mains aren't crying because of Kalista, they're crying because they got nerfed because of Devourer, then Devourer got removed and they weren't buffed back. Kalista literally played no part of that.

RogueWill1 votes

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Jax and Xin mains aren't crying because of Kalista, they're crying because they got nerfed because of Devourer, then Devourer got removed and they weren't buffed back. Kalista literally played no part of that.

Is all cinderhulk all over again..I miss Sejuani

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