Kalista

Lord of Awesome·11/21/2014, 4:52:04 AM·1 votes·521 views

Really don't like her so far. Everything from her walk animation to her passive just feel so awkward.

First, her passive. It sucks that I don't like this, because it's really unique and can be good in circumstances, but it just feels terrible in lane. It makes CSing so much harder. You aim for one minion, it dies, she targets another before you can tell her not to attack at all, and now she's weakening others I don't want to hit yet and making the whole thing harder. Just little things like that happening all of the time get sort of annoying, and it feels jerky and jarring. I like its kite potential, but there's got to be a better way to make it happen than destroying her ability to easily CS.

Next, her ult. Why doesn't it do damage? I mean, from a balancing perspective, it makes sense for it to do some, but as much as Riot cares about how abilities "feel", this feels terrible. It doesn't need be any sort of nuke, but SOMEthing out of it would feel much better.

On a more superficial level, her walking animation is just... Why does she just powerwalk everywhere instead of running, like everyone else? Or at least jogging? She just looks so awkward as she moves around before tier 2 boots.

I donno, these are just my thoughts. Let me know if I'm dumb or wrong.

2 Comments

AetherKingdom11/21/2014, 5:03:05 AM1 votes

Kalista is top tier. Her damage should be reduced, and her passive should be reduced.

ShakySurgeon11/21/2014, 5:17:37 AM1 votes

Pretty simple. Every Kalista I've fought against fails HARD against VarusVarus

  • He has both Hard and Soft CC, 25 Range over her, Slightly more armor and Health, along with 5 more run speed than her, More Mana and better Mana regen.

  • You have VERY slightly faster attack speed than her. Also she gets locked in place and cannot cancel auto-attacks. You can. Take advantage of that to poke/harass her and stack blight when you can.

  • If you stack Blight on her and proc. it with an ability, she's done for.

  • Only real issue is her dash to dodge his skill-shots. So if you can land them on her, she shouldn't be an issue at all.

  • When starting off, go with E then W then Q. Your E will allow you to kite her a bit easier and W to stack blight and pop it with either Q or E

  • If you wanna play more passively than aggressively, start with Q then W then E. Your ULT will absolutely take away any advantage she has over you mobility wise. Once she's rooted in place. It's GG for her.

HOPE THIS HELPS!