Kalista loses all attack speed on slows - make slows make her jump less far, not slow motion float

Clever Phrase ·8/16/2019, 9:35:25 PM·21 votes·10,718 views

I wrote this as a bug over 2 years ago but nothing has changed. When Kalista is slowed, she goes slow motion on her orb walking / jumping. This can happen even mid jump and you are stuck not attacking. You may not attempt to kite and orb walk backwards as you attack because your attack speed will be less than 1 a second. When she is slowed she should jump less far. That's the purpose of a slow, to decrease movement, not to totally cripple dps. A slow means death. She can't kite and so she is forced to stand there auto attacking to do any damage at all. Of course she loses as that's 90% of attack damage and she's an ADC who's whole kit is designed more than any other off of kiting. She's had the lowest win rate for ages. She's also probably the most fun character in the game to control and play until she gets slowed and then shes bugged and auto loses which is why she also has the lowest or close to lowest play rate patch to patch. She has other issues like needing her oathsworn nearby to have an ult or a passive on her E but this one simple change would help her so much and actually makes sense.

6 Comments

WoonStruck8/16/2019, 10:14:56 PM5 votes

It was a bandaid fix for how broken she was. It gutted her because of what you described.

Hi im 128/17/2019, 12:16:05 AM3 votes

on one hand fuck kalista, on the other this is fucking stupid

Cerash8/17/2019, 3:04:18 AM2 votes

Apply this same mechanic to everyone and see how quickly either all players would leave or the problem would get fixed. Too bad we can't do anything about it.

Imagine if slows actually increased cooldown times, autoattack delays, or channel speeds.

LTK KoRo8/17/2019, 3:38:17 PM1 votes

sure, what should kalista give up for having uncounterable kiting? i suggest cut her AA damage to 30% total AD, or make her rend to cap at 2 spears, or nerf her ult 'rescue' speed+make her oathsworn fully targetable during ult channel