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Balance Kalista (repost from previous comment)

Tenta Penta·10/12/2016, 1:39:37 AM·1 votes·211 views

Balancing her seems incredibly easy imo.

  • Give her autos 1.0 ratio and allow them to attack targets that go out of vision. (This is a no brainer, allows her to scale relative to the rest of the adc's.)
  • Remove the damage passive on her W, make the sentinels more meaningful but not ridiculous (i.e. 3 autos to kill rather than 2) and possibly replace the damage aspect with possibly a cc aspect. A slow seems to be most reasonable, say 25% scaling. You could possibly even just buff the vision control aspect of it and remove any kill potential from it (allow it to spot wards). Removing the max health damage and replacing it with a soft cc seems completely fair, allowing her to regain normal-ish auto stats; making her have better solo capabilities, while dampening out those ridiculous bot lane trades.
  • Allow her to Q mid jump again, for play-making sakes. It's not like that was a big issue, it's essentially an auto reset; something many adc's have. If the stats come back and she becomes a monster, tweak the numbers on her passive dash, make it a wee bit shorter. Find the right distance on her dash and she should be able to conform to most metas.

These changes would give her the ability to be a solo playmaker, just like the countless playmaking adc's (Jinx, Vayne, Draven), yet still have that cooperative aspect if they made her W passive a slow instead, and ofc she has her ult which SHE isn't even in control of. It isn't even as capable of making picks as Jhin's ult.

These don't seem too crazy to me, and if you ask me would make her viable but not annoyingly god-like. It would just give adc's another option in champ select.

Nobody wants to see any champ become god-tier-always-picked-always-banned meta. But I genuinely love playing her and I would love if it wasn't so hard to keep up with her as it is with most other ad's. Don't take this as personal bias, just look at her pick/win rate. It's abysmal...

scepter.

Thanks for taking the time to read my thoughts. Please let me know what you think, I hope this will spark something in riot to rewire a fun champ.

SketchyJedi (Noetic)

1 Comments

Wolfram Oxford10/12/2016, 3:11:14 PM1 votes

I don't think this is how they should go about it. In my opinion she needs to be made into a duelist that can synergize with her support, instead of an ADC that interacts with her support. Some changes would be buffing her attack speed, giving her the 1.0 AD ratio on auto attacks, making it so slows don't affect her hop (because that affects her attack animation too, so when you are exhausted you basically can't move or auto), make it so she gains bonus movement speed after ulting, make her W give attack speed for a short duration after proccing its aa passive, make her Q act like an auto (like Ezreal's Q).