Kalista was the worst champion to ever be made
Want to play a gap closer less melee champion? Lol too bad. No wait scratch that, want to play any melee champion other than Riven? Good luck.
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Put a limit on the number of hops to be one every three auto attacks or something and she would be fine, but to have infinite mobility with 0 drawbacks? "Balanced"
Correction
Kalista IS the worst champion ever to be made
She will keep that title probably until CertainlyT makes a new, even more broken champion
honestly i like all of certainlyt's champions and dont have problems fighting them at all
but this piece of balls came out and i didnt even notice how bs she was until i tried to stun her as udyr
ganking a kalista lane is just hard as fuck not only does she hop around but she fucking has wards that can scout out so stupid and the fact her ult saves her soulbounded even when they are ccd is bullshit sorry if im sounding salty but seriously fuck that bitch
Now imagine how useless 
would be without her passive...
Best-case scenario, you get a few moments of bliss imagining a Kalista that functions like a sitting duck.
Worst-case scenario, you realize how ineffective the rest of her kit is without it.
Conceptually, Kalista is fine. There's going to be some reasonable value of her passive that will make her both catchable and interestingly mobile. Maybe she isn't there yet (I don't know enough about balancing to say, and I won't go off of pure opinion), but it's not liker her design is bad. You all have a habit of blaming the man who came up with the design for how bad the numbers Balance applies to the design are.
Replace the hop passive with the % damage from her W, then put a cap on her E stacks. Now she's balanced. You're welcome balance team.
If her jumps didn't go twice as far when going backwards, and her E had a freaking cap, she wouldn't be nearly as bad. The fact that these two things managed to survive baffles me.
She is not, there have been worse champions on release. In a month or 2 she is just gonna be another normal ADC when everybody adapts to her and Riot guts her into the ground, then in another month another more broken champion will be released and gutted.
Jax used to have an easy way to get 90% dodge chance permanently it worked on the fountain turret. TF had a global teleport on a 40 second cooldown on a basic skill, his stun and all W effects were AoE, his ultimate revealed all enemies on the map and applied a major sow. Release Diana and Zyra were pretty terrible too. Also release Xin. Oh and Heimerdinger with 6 turrets with an ultimate that made them deal more damage, slowed them and instantly healed them. They also didn't deactivate when they went away. Oh and he could heal turrets(the structures).
Kalista is a bad champion because she breaks fundamental balance rules of League: She does everything. She has uncounterable mobility, she has burst, she has dps, she has CC, she's got teamfight potential, she's got dueling power, she can harass, she can avoid harassment, she's pretty much not restricted by mana, she can scout without putting herself at risk, and even if her teammates secure the kill, she can still steal it.
It's honestly rather perplexing that nobody in the development team stopped at one point and went "Wait, what's her drawback again?"
She uh, can kite Riven, too, lol. The only melee I can think of she probably can't is Zed. Or maybe Akali.
No wait scratch that, want to play any melee champion other than Riven? Good luck.
Lol, you're funny.