Kalista Ult

Morticianjohn··2 votes·673 views

I haven't played with kalista much. This was only the second time that I was playing support with her. It was so weird like she couldn't control where she would shoot me. Then at the end of the match I was notified that I control where she shoots....

Kalista was a pretty good player and I am sure that if I had known to control where she shoots things would have gone much better for us.

This seems pretty awkward to me. Since when does the arrow decide where it goes. I know very little about each champion other than what is on their biography but kalista doesn't seem like the type of champ that will just shoot willy nilly and let her arrows decide where to go.

IMO the game shouldn't trust another player (especially a newer player) to make good decisions about your champion. Let Kalista make those decisions after all she knows how to use her champion better than I do.

Before you all say that it gives room for trolling etc... 1st after playing for 2 months I have yet to come across a player who was intentionally trying to lose. Sure there are feeders and things but usually they're people trying to win that just messed up. I see all of the accusations about so and so trying to feed the other team (and I've been accused of purposely trying to throw a game a few times myself even though I was legitimately trying to do what I could to win) but IMO these are just people who are so self absorbed that they think that everything I do is for them.

There are plenty of champs that trolls can use to throw games if they wish. For example tahm kench can swallow his adc to prevent last hitting and make life really difficult even throwing them under the turret or I had a tahm kench toss me into the teams base one game killing me. I wouldn't worry too much about kalista misusing her ult to get the support killed by trolling as much as I think it's tough for the support to control the ability.. After all we have to reorient to use the ult anyway costing valuable time just make it like any other skill shot which would make it faster and easier to use.

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PIMPSMOOTH1 votes

Agreed, always hate getting paired with Kalista's b/c their timing of ult usage is generally terrible.

Morticianjohn1 votes

In this case she was timing the thing perfectly but I would just wait hoping that she'd shoot me to the right location. Once I asked why she was holding me so long because we could have gotten a triple kill but instead we both ended up dying because of the 4 seconds it took to fire the ult. I just didn't know that I could shoot it right away (and of course I wasn't trying to aim it either). Another time she pulled me out of a 3 v 1 only to shoot me right back in between the 3 enemies....

I know not every champion is meant for beginners and lower elo matches but I think it would certainly simplify things if they didn't expect the support to be an expert on the ADC's champion to know how to use it.

Penns1 votes

Well, it shows you some blue circle- thingy and a blue arrow, which is always there if you use a skillshot without smartcast (https://i.gyazo.com/f661b8f0a368217584539dee1bb81204.png ), so you couldve known I guess. It would make sense if Kalista could decide where she throws you, but since you dont need to agree to her "soulbinding" at all (so you have to accept it), that really would give too much room for trolling lol.

LaowPing1 votes

It's meant to encourage coordination and team work. When Riot release Kalista they said her kit was meant to teach ADCs and supports to work to together. That's why her w passive exist. Her kit has high reward but it requires teamwork to use correctly. I've had times where I played Kalista and my supporr ulted a different target that I didn't even think of hitting. It always ended up being the right choice.

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