What Do You Want From Kalista if She is Reworked?

AHarmlessTaco··2 votes·379 views

Lore-Wise, Kalista was a loyal and admirable general betrayed by grief and greed, wishing nothing but vengeance on those who would betray their allies. From my understanding, through my experience as a support, Kalista is a high skill, very versatile champion that provided too much in too many places.

  • Relentless kiting / chasing potential
  • Vision Control
  • Ease of Farming with W and E
  • Baron/Dragon control
  • Strong Knock-up and Slow
  • Anti-Pick for her Support

With all of these traits, Kalista became top tier in competitive play and a solid pick elsewhere until she was eventually nerfed into the state she is now.

As someone who does reworks for fun, I would like to know what YOU GUYS want to see from Kalista. Who knows, maybe Riot will take a look at this.

  • What is YOUR favorite skill?
  • Do you guys want to see her as an ADC or a support?
  • Should she be valued for her kiting/chasing potential OR her utility?
  • Who should counter / be countered by Kalista?
  • Do you have any cool ideas that could help solidify her niche?
  • Is there anything on her current kit you want to see removed?

Please note your relationship with Kalista because it does matter from whose side you're seeing things from. As a support main, I LOVE helping her farm with her W and I love the R, but this post needs to address what the mains want from her too.

Thanks!

6 Comments

DrugsForRobots1 votes

I like her kiting passive, although it feels unnecessarily wordy and obtuse (scales with boot tier instead of MS?)

But knowing Riot they'd probably remove her Sentinels because...

TBH, IDK why they'd remove that awesome, super unique ability, but given their recent trends...

AHarmlessTaco1 votes

Well, you gotta give something up. She offers so much, and the highest budget part of her kit is that added mobility. Would you trade her Sentinals/Rend vs Drag+Baron/Ult to keep her passive?

Her niche would become a VERY hard to catch, hard to escape champion with no CC most likely, designed to shut down juggernauts. Is that what you like about her?

(Honest questions, not trying to be condescending)

DrugsForRobots1 votes

If they made her Martial Poise scale with MS instead of boot tier, she'd be much more susceptible to slows and her kiting would be less powerful as a result (even though that'd still be a huge part of her appeal and strategic niche), yeah?

I like her Martial Poise because it's incredibly unique and unlike anything we've seen, but I also think they could play up how she needs her Support to reach her full damage potential. Maybe shift some of her damage off her E and tie it into her support proc'ing her W passive?

AHarmlessTaco1 votes

In that case, I agree that a lot of her damage would need to be tuned and I think the Sentinal and R would have to change substantially or just be removed.

I believe her hops being affected by slows would be important. I would almost argue that they should be disabled while slowed. ALSO, what if hopping was an activated ability of hers? That way she couldn't perma hop?

Soraka Rules1 votes

More spears

AHarmlessTaco1 votes

You know, I tried to find a machine gun firing spears gif or something and couldn't sooooooo unfortunately I cannot complete the request.

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