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Kalista's state.

Zoe about that··3 votes·808 views

I think we can all agree that Kalista is not in a desirable spot right now for any of the solo queue players. She is never picked (1.12% play rate as I'm writing this), and is becoming less and less popular each patch. Her winrate is atrocious (44%) and seems to get worse each day as well. You might still be able to see her every once in a while in ranked 5v5s, but even there she's very rarely going to perform properly given the fact her kit is overnerfed and is currently —I'd say— unplayable.

Formerly, she was the best adc or at least (and everyone is going to agree with me on this one) the most annoying one. I get it, nobody liked her except the ones who mained her. In any case, she is currently a dead champion.

Nobody picks her and when they do, they're heavier than Nautilus' anchor and just weigh down their teams.

Her win rate is sad, she feels extremely clunky and unenjoyable and is just heart-breaking to see such a great concept die.

This is my second post talking about her current state in the game and I've personally seen hundreds of other posts in different forums, reddit and these boards. Please, listen to us. If you don't wanna buff her to the point she's back in the game, at least do something with her concept so she's not played less than Urgot (who, by the way, is f*cking dead as well, but at least practically nobody cares about this fella cos he's been dead since he was born. With Kalista, however, we've seen her as the queen of adc, and now she's just gone, poof).

I think wether or not you like Kalista, regardless of what you think of her kit or power or skin color or voice or how much of a sexy momma she is, you have to agree with me that she's just not there anymore. She needs a rework, or a buff. Please, I understand there's a lot of priorities like other reworks that have been queued for years, but I don't know, just bring her back anyhow (buff, rework, what have you) so we can go back to rending people, ye?

Tons o' love.

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11 Comments

SoundChaosDebug3 votes

Give her the same time window Yorick had to wait and then remake her.

Zoe about that1 votes

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Give her the same time window Yorick had to wait and then remake her.

This is exactly what I don't want to happen. I don't want to see a champion that is so fun and so great dead for like, what?, 4 years? And then reworked. That's too long, 4 years being forgotten is just sad.

GULAG 4 U2 votes

Oh, Aatrox's win rate drops by 9% and riot does nothing... Thanks rito...

Zoe about that1 votes

Aatrox is another Kalista, yes.

GULAG 4 U2 votes

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Aatrox is another Kalista, yes.

Because riot is inefficient af. It takes them 4 years to dump a yorick rework.

Zoe about that1 votes

Exactly. I don't want to wait 4 years to play my favourite champion. And with Yorick, well, at least he didn't have that much player base, but Kalista was prefered by a lot of adc players, so this really puffles my jigglies.

SanKakU1 votes

At first thought, I feel like they should jettison her attack damage ratios or at least some of them and replace them with attack speed ratios. She is after all Attack Speed Carry right now. If you try to play her ADC, unlike with other marksman, you will fail. Other marksman really should play as ADC. ASC right now are junglers mostly and usually they build a lot of AD anyway or maybe some AP instead or both. Kalista is in an awkward spot IMHO.

She needs more ratios at any rate. You can't even increase the damage on her W other than through putting more points into it and does her ultimate even do damage? I forgot if it does but I don't think it does any more damage with any stat. Basically all her scaling is Q and E and it's just not enough. Make Q for example do more damage if you have more attack speed, make W do more damage by ability power...make ultimate do more damage based on her MR and armor. Make W scout unit have more health based on your maximum health and more armor and MR based on your armor and MR and bam, she scales with lots more stuff and she should be all-around far more useful.

Might even consider making W instead scale with her own health so she can go tank build. That is a scary possibility though that might make her crazy OP...but you don't know until you try it I guess. Point is there are things that could be attempted and I don't see them happening while things like Ekko in his current state are allowed to rampage across the Summoner's Rift. Kalista players got to be wondering why they don't get to have fun but other players do.

Big Wait Tenshi2 votes

Basicly just change her in a way that any type of slow doesnt make her useless :P

Matezoide1 votes

Kalista deserves to be in this spot because she is an abomination that should never have been released.

She was gutted for a very good reason and should be left this way until she gets reworked.

I really dont understand why everyone is calling for Kalista buffs, when this is exactly what everyone wanted to begin with. It is like people forgot what happens when this champion is viable.

Zoe about that1 votes

I don't care about how they wanna make it work, but no champion deserves to be in the spot she is right now, because that's basically just not being in the game. If you create a champion, it should be playable. And there are a lot of champions in the same state, but I personally liked Kalista, therefore I call for her return and not the others'. Even if she has to become a Soraka kind of thing, I don't care, bring her back, rework, relaunch, re-whatever.

And I still don't think she was that hard to play against, when a slow made (and makes) her unable to attack or dash for seconds (working pretty much like a stun). But whatever. Yall bronze to platinum people (no offense, really, but I think pro or at least high diamond opinions should be the ones heard for balance changes) want to call her a monstrosity, that's cool, fuck her up, change her kit, whatever, but don't let her be the same champion with 0.01 ratios, that's just retarded. Unplayable and unenjoyable. The worst part? She's still the same "abomination" if she, for any reason, got fed. Don't like her? Fix her, don't just gut her. Pisses me off that there are dozens of champions that are just sitting at 40% win rate and riot doesn't do anything about them. If at least they were fun to play even with a low win rate, like Vayne at this moment (46% win rate) then ok, but Kalista is just downright Darius unenjoyable. It feels so unfair to play her, you're just weaker than everyone all the time.

Zoe about that1 votes

Same

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