Random Thought: What if Kalista's Auto's/Qs did more damage when she leaps forward

TehNACHO·Dec 29, 2015·1 votes·260 views

BUT, deals less damage if she were to leap backwards?

Think of it. There's now a lot of incentive to leap forward, but if done improperly, it immediately puts her within arms reach of most champions and puts her in immediate danger (which is huge for her usually glass cannon build). There's now much more gravity in Kalista's short term vs long term strategic thinking: Do I do more damage now, capitalizing on short term advantage (more damage in this attack) but putting extreme risk on my long term advantage (way easier to get caught and die)?

If combined with a way to diminish her power (in this case, doing less damage when jumping backwards) so it isn't just a straight buff to her in many situations, I think it would add a whole lot more strategic depth towards how Kalista fights and how to fight Kalista.

4 Comments

TacoTheKittenDec 29, 20152 votes

They've already given Kalista several nerfs to bring in her power, I think she's in a pretty decent state right now. This would also make her an extremely snowball reliant champion, and the current snowball reliant "adc" was permabanned at worlds Mordekaiser . Interesting idea though, but it just wouldn't work well.

disregardableDec 29, 20151 votes

Sounds to me like it'd just make her more reliant on snowballing. Oh you're ahead? Congratulations, you get an almost permanent damage increase! Oh you're behind? Good luck ever catching up when you do less damage while trying to kite them. Obviously you're going to do both in either game, but it stands that you're going to play safer when you're behind and be more aggressive when you're ahead.