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I understand that a lot of people hate Kalista, however

Child Puncher·7/21/2016, 7:44:01 AM·1 votes·494 views

Is taking a champion that was fun to play and nerfing them excessively on purpose and giving them the absolute lowest winrate of any adc and then leaving them there and never talking about it again, really how you're going to handle it?

she has the 2nd or 3rd lowest pickrate depending on when the Corki mains are on, and the lowest winrate of any adc, as well as an 0.04% banrate

all these statistics in the LoL economy show incoming buffs,

she doesn't need to be the old hypermobile uncatchable high damage dealing sustain adc that everyone hated, but can she get some E damage back please? or have her autos do 100% damage instead of 90%

she needs something because her passive locks her movement and attack speed together she is forced to build 3 AS items before anything else as her core, usually including BOTRK, berserker greaves, and hurricane, she currently cannot attack hard and fast enough to sustain health, she cannot escape anyone at this MS / AS combination, and cannot fend for herself in a one on one fight(where gear and level are similar) unless she's against someone with ONLY skill shots and the player can dodge most or all of them, so she has no redeeming qualities anymore and isn't really that fun to play

if you work on her and change SOMETHING she won't be this LCS / high ELO monster when paired with the right support, while being completely terrible in the hands of the other 99.8% of players. This shows a failed design when the top % cannot be allowed to play her, and the bottom majority cannot stand to play her

please do something meaningful with this champion, because despite her oppressiveness, she was actually fun to play at one point.

9 Comments

Zero Skill Tank7/21/2016, 7:54:56 AM1 votes

It's so-called Nidalee syndrome: Kalista was fun to play not despite of Her oppresiveness, but precisely because of It, Just like old Nida, current Zed etc. Changing Her in a way that preserves the feel of playing Kalista, but makes Her not oppresive is not possible.

disregardable7/21/2016, 7:58:22 AM1 votes

Welcome to how I felt a year ago. To me, she stopped being playable in solo queue after her second nerf.

Athenes Lulu7/21/2016, 8:50:39 AM1 votes

Kalista is one of those things that is a monster in the right hands AND proper coordination (looking at you, supports), otherwise trash.

Food for thought. But that's gonna be the go if anyone wants to keep her as non-oppressive as possible.

bluefall7/21/2016, 10:45:54 AM1 votes

She does feel a bit weak at the moment, but my biggest problem with Kalista has always been her ult. Even when I play with friends who want the spear, it just feels janky and unsatisfying. I also hate how close I have to get in order to do it. I've had better success with using it to pull back my dive happy friends after they start the chaos than as a means of self peel or initiation. I honestly wish it were reworked to something else.

When I'm not Kalista and I have the spear I usually can't react fast enough because there's that moment where I lose track of my character before I realize what happened and then it feels like there's a noticeable delay between me targeting and actually landing afterwards.

I guess part of the problem is that there's a mental process that goes on when you get scooped up. First, you realize your character isn't doing what they were doing a second ago and you're in ult mode, then you have to decide if the purpose of the ult was to disengage you from the fight or to get some extra cc going, and then if the purpose was to save your life you've got to decide if it's worth going back in if the cc might help your team win a fight or get some extra kills at the cost of your own death.

There's just too much to assess and the whole time Kalista is out of position near the enemy. There's just too much to process to use it effectively.

And god help you if you aren't playing with friends. It's like missing grabs with Blitz. Everyone hates you or the Kalista who speared you hates you for not being able to use her ult how she wanted despite how jarring it is when you're not ready for it. Sometimes if they are ulting for self peel purposes, they just do it too late to save them since it takes a few seconds for the thing to go off. That's an eternity when there's a Kha'zix jumping at your face or similar.

I dunno. maybe I'm too casual and people who play ranked and stuff can handle it all but I absolutely hate that ult. It's my least favorite skill in the game hands down.