Kalista

Just want to get some honest thoughts on kalista and her nerfs coming to pbe. Im not sure i entirely understand exactly what they are doing with her. Are they moving more dmg to her rend? Dont even know if she is getting any compensation at all.

My thoughts: ive been playing her in teambuilder recently. The players at my elo need two things to reliably kill her. They need a slow and a gapcloser and armor or burst dmg because slows actually slow her attack speed if she commits to doing hops. So for instance both zed and sejuani can kill her. Lee sin for instance has more trouble, esp since his gap closer is a skill shot.

Now, most bruiser champs are used to the idea that they can just murder the adc in broad daylight. Obviously, this is a sense of entitlemetn that offends the average adc who has to think about so many positional variables to be effective. We cant just walk up and kill anyone. We have to wait for the chance which is usually due to a mistake on the other teams part. So now that I have my hands on an adc that can have a chance in a solo q situation with a lee sin, I dont want to let her go.

If you arent an adc main you dont know what its like to commonly see snot nosed b3 players walk up and "hue hue" murder your ass while ignoring LITTERALLY EVERYTHING AROUND YOU regardless of if its even a good idea to dive the underfed adc or their team is actually dying a full screen away. Then they go into all chat and shit talk you while their team is in a grey screen. Its really toxic in my opinion.

Having said all that, I recently started playing kalista without investing heavily in attack speed. Just pd and boots. Her single target dmg is just wow. And if you have a ranged support like teemo who is building runaans, her w is wow. And I think she is unbalanced.

I consider myself to be a lot better than my current elo. I had a huge loosing streak about two or three months ago and dropped 3 divisions in about two weeks. My MMR is still recovering. (I tried to learn vayne without understanding how important it is to max tumble first) Regardless, there was no way syndra and lee were going to do a good job of killing me unless i made a mistake given that they werent doing a good job of coordinating.. They both rely on a skillshot. Syndra her stun (hard to land on anyone much less kalista) and lee's gap closer wouldnt even help him late game because he no longer has the as debuff or slow or whatever he used to have. So, I had a pretty big advantage in this last game I played, even taking this into account, I started to feel like I had the power those bruisers have over me when i play my other adc's.

Now, at the risk of coming down on both sides, my teammates (teemo and j4) were actually doing a much better job of coordinating. I often killed syndra only after she had blown at least one cooldown maybe more on a teammate of mine. I honestly think that a 1v1 between me and syndra would have come down to rng and who took advantage of the bushes. THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE (except for the part about rng)! Positional play, smart plays, and team comps win the game. When I am playing jinx and hecairim dives me from a mile away, i could literally be loosing to a neanderthal huffing freon. Now, If i am playing kalista with a red buff, I still dont think I could be a neanderthal and pound peoples face with her. But given the difficulty of my other adcs, I am conditioned to feel guilty. I have been trained to think that bruisers should kill me quickly and somewhat easily in a 1v1. And that might be a problem too.

TLDR: I want your opinions on kalista but think it shouldnt be so simple to dive the adc repeatedly in solo q. Its toxic. Lee Sin can troll his entire team and the enemy adc by just doing that single mindedly the entire game. So I like kalista. All it should take is one dive to make lee sin realize that he needs to be careful around me and maybe team up if it looks like I am ahead. Shame on him if he bangs his head against the wall trying to solo me while I am getting fed. And remember. I cant exactly chase him down and ruin his game. My base ms is 325. The lowest in the game. He can always stay away from me. He has to get pretty close for me to gun him down. Let him learn some of the principals of position like I had to.

Devils advocate TLDR: I feel like the entire game is balanced around the idea that bruisers can laugh at the adc while annihilating them in a 2v1 taht is dis favorable to the bruiser. Given that kalista breaks this mold, she may be considered slightly broken or moderately unbalanced. Especially with that w. Dayum.