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Kalista - Why is she allowed to be a hyper carry and do great early game?

FancySheep·7/15/2015, 6:14:41 AM·4 votes·1,912 views

Vayne, as we all know, is doing well at the moment in the meta. Her early game isn't horrendous anymore due to support changes, and meta changing. It now favors her. However, Vayne still isn't going to be beating out a Graves or Caitlyn in the beginning of a match.

Why can Kalista do this? Her E will be nuking you almost no matter what. End game, early game - there's no stopping it. It's strong. It has NO cap what-so-ever, making her perhaps just as good at killing tanks as any Vayne could hope to be. She can also smite dragons for you, making her a fail-smite crutch. Have a new jungler on your team you're worried can't time his smite right? Who cares, you have a Kalista with 30 spears in it. Press E for your profit. You'll regen the minimal mana in just a few seconds. And, you won't have your E on cooldown! Great.

Also, Vayne's Silver Bolts don't proc with Hurricane. She's not going to be hitting three of your teammates with % health damage. Kalista's spears will. Because magical bolts = ghost spears. This means while she's putting pressure on your front line, you're being hit by her Hurricane Bolts. This will stack her passive, allowing her to have a headstart on you before she nukes your tank with E. Runaan's Hurricane also allows her to get a bit extra range on it, as her attacking the player closest to her will still allow her bolts to travel behind him a bit. So much for positioning behind your front line, just position at nexus to avoid bolt Spear-Procs.

This is plain retarded. Why is she even in this state? She doesn't even need peel. A normal Kalista will have plenty of attack speed to keep her kiting, and any player who is relatively competent will have auto-spacing that will poop on anyone trying to get close to her. Don't have an instant blink? Enjoy having 20 spears in you, now run or get nuked. She provides her own retard crutch with her ultimate, allowing a bad play to turn back around. And if its a mess up, the support can sit in there, and then re-engage again.

Put a cap on her E that increases every rank. Remove the ability to refresh it with a kill. Keep it from being applied through Runaan's Hurricane.

She's taking up ban slots, Riot.

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3 Comments

Immp7/15/2015, 7:19:11 AM3 votes

No, just no. Vaynes w doesn't proc with hurricane because you can only apply the bolts to one person at a time. Kalista is fine and was just recently nerfed. If you want to counter Kalista, play Draaaven.

Why should her e have a cap? If you have a ton of stacks on you, that's your fault. Kalista now has auto attacks now only doing 90% ad. The e is to make up for it as she has lost a good amount of damage. Most of the time kalistas will not rush crit chance so if a Kalista tries to 1v1 an adc who has a infinity edge with a runnans and some boots she's going to lose.

Nasus q does not cap, Vayne's w damage can go on forever. Draven can crit for 2000, Caitlyn can have really high ratios on q and ult, Tristana can deal tons of damage with autos and still chunk you with her e. All adcs have huge amounts of built in damage, to punish people who don't kill them first. You say they can kite infinitely, but if you slow her her dashes aren't as good. Without the dashes she is quite immobile. The refresh it with a kill thing is needed, it helps csing. I mean why should it be removed? Because she can continue to kill if she has killed with e? That's the point. It's not even broken, a lot of adcs have things like these which refresh on kills. Tristana's w, Draven's w. Her e lets her cs, and deal extra damage, execute, or slow.

What I'm trying to say is SHE IS FINE.

FatesDefiler7/15/2015, 7:28:58 AM1 votes

because giving a character a passive ability better than half the champ roster's active ones and rendering half the champ selection obsolete is good game design. cut rito some slack, it's not as if she was released 6 months ago or anything. hop, hop, hop, hop hop...

NemeBro7/15/2015, 8:28:46 AM1 votes

Kalista isn't a hypercarry, lol.

Also, Graves bolo stomps Kalista early game.

She also apparently has the lowest win rate of any ADC at the moment, after her changes went live. Food for thought.

She is one of the more poorly-designed and stupid champions in the game though. I'm not a fan.