Here is how you beat Kalista

Nebuul··4 votes·8,845 views
  1. Stand next to bush
  2. Attack her
  3. Step into bush before her counterattack lands
  4. You won the trade. Her attacks require vision on you to connect, meaning that if you stick-and-move like this, she cannot reciprocate.

Basically if you are against kalista, you need to start with scanner so you can remove any ward she places in the lane bushes, whether top or bottom lane. Then, you just poke poke poke all day long because she literally cannot do anything about it unless she wants to also stand in the bush next to you, which removes her mobility advantage.

Edit: The best way to look at it is this: Her auto-attacks are like Garen's ult used to be.

7 Comments

SouL1ess4 votes

But that's why she has Sentinel.

Worgslarg2 votes

This is a good tip, but there's a problem: melee toplaners cant poke, even the few with range would be unable to cs while bush juking her autos.

Nebuul1 votes

Every ranged top laner should beat her. This handicap literally means that if you are standing next to a bush, then the only time she should ever be able to damage you with auto-attacks is when she catches you with a sentry, and those die in 2 hits.

Need to cs? Stand in bush, hop out, cs, hop back in. Same as harassing her. However, you can deny her HARD at the same time because she cannot deal with this strategy. If she wants to cs, she faces unanswerable damage.

Sire Hippington1 votes

cause she can't farm minions from far away off the brushesh with 550 range? And u usually would use her as a counterpick vs melees top, and not firstpick her(well, u still could firstpick as she can go bot or mid aswell...) U shouldn't asume that all Kalistas are dumb.

jeffeypop1 votes

yeah, or if she uses trinket. even if you scan and clear it while she is kiting you, she can just drop a ward right after and own that bush for the next minute at least. i imagine rengar counters her pretty hard using this strategy, though. great ideas nebuul.

Lumus Avatar1 votes

I still find that Garen's ult will not connect if they go into the bush during the animation. When did they fix this? Cuz it happened to me just a couple weeks ago. (I have since avoiding using the ult on anywhere near a bush)

Sire Hippington1 votes

ways for kalista to counter thant: pick strong melee suport(Ali, Blitz...), gain brushcontroll simply by puting ur support into the brush as ur enemys have scaner instead of a ward trinket. Good luck steping into that brush as adc...

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