Does everyone that preemptively said kalista would be broken feel stupid yet?

DonaldTrumpIsG0D·11/20/2014, 3:59:46 PM·2 votes·3,191 views

Honestly, Kalista is so bad in solo que. If you ult your support it takes them about 2 seconds to process what just happened and then another second to cast the spell. Because of her passive blitzcrank literally takes a huge steamy crap on her at every point in the game, there is literally no way to dodge him unless you put alacrity on your boots. Unless she has more than 1.5 as her passive isn't worth anything. Also any champion can catch her, even when she has tier 2 boots, because her movement speed is so garbage. Most people think you can keep them away with the passive but again, if your as is lower than 1.5.. good luck. I also tried hopping some of the walls and it seemed a bit difficult. Maybe there is something I'm missing.. but Kalista by far has the worst laning phase of any adc I have played (which is every adc). She had a deceivingly large amount of mobility in the champion spotlight, honestly. If you want to be able to avoid being chased down and killed by any champion ever you have to rish tier 2 boots and as items, even then you wouldn't have any ad so what's the point. If you want to auto attack something pre level 3, it's like a free 1.5 second root for the other team.. Then again, this was my first game impression of her, but I have also spectated other people playing her.

tl;dr Kalista isn't as broken as people thought she would be because of her extremely low mobility early game.

14 Comments

DrCyanide11/20/2014, 4:40:35 PM6 votes

Thank you for starting the second phase of new champion release.

**Phase 1 **- Kit is shown. Everyone complains that it's OP Phase 2 - Champion is released. No one knows how to play the champion, and claims they're weak. Community asks for buffs Phase 3 - Buffs hit right around when people start understanding the champion. This results in some players completely dominating with the champion. Phase 4 - People say that they always knew said champion was going to be OP

Gorsz11/20/2014, 4:02:03 PM5 votes

You mean because people havent mastered her the very first day... her being a high skillcap.... you're jumping to conclusions?

Xtremey11/20/2014, 4:03:08 PM5 votes

remember when gnar and lucian were deemed "weak" and "unplayable"?

AnomalousChimera11/20/2014, 4:39:06 PM2 votes

I played a match with a Kalista adc yesterday, and not even he/she knew what was happening when he/she hit ult. I Monsooned 3 members of the enemy team and then as I was trying to flee and was about to use my tornado on them, Kalista ulted and pulled me back, disabling my abilities and disorienting me. Kalista then moved toward me, and we both got killed. I am thinking that she is likely the worst adc you can pick in solo queue and normals because of the teamwork required with a complete stranger of a support and afks/dcs.

Yawnli11/20/2014, 4:59:26 PM1 votes

ill wait 2 months and then see this same person whining about kalista being too strong

Rinky Dinky11/23/2014, 3:27:17 AM1 votes

Were you intoxicated by any chance when you typed this?