I like how I can't even catch up to Kalista as Rammus using powerball

arbokfister··56 votes·4,442 views

What a well designed champion! Only an idiot would think it's fair for a melee champ to ever get in range of a squishy, ranged adc! Can the next adc have a built in BV that never goes off cd, no cap to life steal, 100% crit at the start of the game and 3 built in GA's?

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ABlueQuaker38 votes

In other news, AD Carries are getting buttf*cked all over the Rift by a revolutionary strategy called flanking. More news at 6.

BallisticMouse2 votes

Woah, how did you get your summoner icon :o?

S E X Y B O I3 votes

It's an icon on the OCE server, but it will come to NA and EU later this year too.

Blue Moon Wolf1 votes

he fizzed out ;p

Anrui2 votes

It is in commemoration of the before times, before the nerfs. Fizz

Leti the Yeti21 votes

as an udyr with a perpetual 560 move speed, I can say that no champion in game has kited me rammus and his burst of 800+ speed should be able to catch up easily, getting kited after you make impact tho...

DisasterSola14 votes

life steal has a cap?

And that kalista must have had insane attack speed and an on hit slow for you not to have caught her. like 2.0+ attack speed.

arbokfister5 votes

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life steal has a cap?

And that kalista must have had insane attack speed and an on hit slow for you not to have caught her. like 2.0+ attack speed.

By the time I caught her I'm less than 30% health

Lord Dusteon1 votes

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By the time I caught her I'm less than 30% health

Here's a tip. Powerball, go towards her. When she starts an autoattack suddenly go backwards out of her range, then ram into her squishy little face and press E. If you exit her range, it cancels her jump which given powerballs movespeed lets you smash into her.

Nucleophilic atk13 votes

So you did catch her then? Why do you lie in your thread, OP?

ramonatherobot1 votes

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life steal has a cap?

no it doesn't, used to build full life steal on old Sion, an had 150% plus

Narasimha8 votes

Yeah, see, its hyperbole like this that makes Riot less inclined to listen to the boards. Even if you were running straight at her and she was jumping straight back, you STILL would have caught her. To put it in perspective, Powerball can catch a Yi in Highlander (assuming the Yi only has boots and doesn't have Ghostblade active. I mean, if he built for pure MS, then thats something else). Kalista is not going to be getting away anytime soon.

Junkο4 votes

Why did you not buy a Randuins on Rammus against a Kalista?

Ratbert2 votes

only randuin's active slows and kalista dashes, so is not really hurt by the slow

Junkο9 votes

Kalista dashes are dependent on her AS. Randuins passive reduces AS when attacked. Get it?

Ratbert1 votes

fh would be a better choice then

Junkο3 votes

FH doesn't give health, which is essential for tanks

qetzel6 votes

I would normally expect Rammus to buy both.

xSyndicate1 votes

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InbredFeeder3 votes

Frozen heart and randuins give the cold steel passive that slows her attack speed, and lower attack speed means less hoping. Enjoy

DEN15 5123 votes

Had no problem catching one as ms rammus Rammus item 3284 item 3113 item 3086 item 3086 item 3086 item 3086

baaljinn2 votes

what about item 3800 ?

baaljinn1 votes

any of you try rammus top? been having tons of fun! 75%+ win outta 17 games so far Rammus thirsts for blood!

Saixos1 votes

Quite honestly, I think you're going about this the wrong way. Kalista is made to be a strong kiter, she's supposed to be good at preventing you from catching her. She has a 45% slow on her e if you start powerballing towards her that makes it quite easy for her to stop you from catching her, and she can constantly jump out of your range.

Why would you try to play against a champions strengths? Would you ever try to outburst a leblanc? Would you try to duel a lee sin at level 3 with amumu? Of course not.

Kalista's biggest strength is her ability to avoid being hit by melee champions through kiting, and her amazing ability to avoid skillshots with her passive. Don't play against Kalista's strengths, play against her weaknesses instead.

For example, if she is stuck in the middle of a bunch of people, getting out is quite difficult for her, and she'll usually die. Her hop isn't as long-ranged as corki's e or tristana's w, and she doesn't have vayne's invisibility.

I would say her biggest weakness though is that she's quite weak to other ranged champions. Compared to other ADCs, Kalista doesn't deal as much damage (With some exceptions such as Ashe).

Instead of trying to chase down Kalista, which plays to her strengths, focus on her weaknesses instead: Protect and peel for your ranged damage dealers/the people who can kill Kalista, and try to give them the opening to destroy Kalista.

1st HanarSpectre2 votes

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Instead of trying to chase down Kalista, which plays to her strengths, focus on her weaknesses instead: Protect and peel for your ranged damage dealers/the people who can kill Kalista, and try to give them the opening to destroy Kalista.

Do that and get your whole team pelted with hurricane'd spears. Kalista is ridiculously broken, the fact that she ever made it into the game regardless of numbers is a testament that something is wrong at Riot HQ.

It's nearly impossible to engage on her. It's not just the jump on every attack, it's not just the massive conditional refreshable free to cast slow, it's not just the AoE knock-up from her Ult + whatever CC her support may have, It's all of that put together on an AD carry. Also, while it's not directly related to her jumping around, it's almost impossible to steal a dragon or a baron from a team with Kalista.

IGotScuttleCrabs1 votes

Yea I feel for you. I kited a Yi from Aram nexus to mid lane with Kal while he was using ult. He mad the mistake of starting with a Q to me so after that he couldn't gap close so I always remained just out of reach.

Brenticus121 votes

How much AS did you have?!

brad1 votes

there is no cap to lifesteal

???

ModCaptainMårvelous1 votes

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Can the next adc have a built in BV that never goes off cd

Sivir

no cap to life steal

Aatrox

100% crit at the start of the game

Yasuo

and 3 built in GA's?

Anivia

Brenticus122 votes

Well, no.

Spell Shield has a long CD

Aatrox does have a cap to his lifesteal and his healing is only good when he's below half health.

Yasuo only gets 100% crit mid-late game.

Anivia can only have 2 revives max just like any champ with a revive mechanic - Zilean/Aatrox.

Blackmage91 votes

Build item 3706 that can help plus with Power Ball when I do it. I either get the gank or make my opponent burn their flash.

Grouchy Poro1 votes

I had a similar thing like this last game. I was smart and flanked her though, or flash powerballed when I could late game to rip her apart.

AnOstrichWithPMS1 votes

use your w

Sepakuru1 votes

rammus actually can catch kalista... this is a joke, stop upvoting it

I've had it happen

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