How balanced Kalista really is.

cFlame·3/9/2015, 12:33:10 AM·3 votes·775 views

I'll analyze Kalista now, and tell you what makes her so balanced. -Her core item may only cost 2400 gold. That's 800 gold less than item 3153, and 1100 gold less than players rushing item 3072, and 1400 less gold than item 3031. But item 3085 gives one raw stat instead of many stats, that all ADC's can't build... Except Kalista, you know because she has an on-hit effect ability that stacks infinitely and when activated deals one third of your health with five stacks... You can't argue with that though, she can't apply it while the ability is not on cooldown. It not like, item 3085 applies the effect to other targets and you can have no cooldown on it if it kills just ONE enemy minion...... MOVING ON! -Kalista doesn't have burst on her ultimate, so she can't really do things like Jinx or Draven, you know? Except it can be applied as lock-down cc on a multiple targets. Just like Varus and Ashe, you know? Except its not a snare, so enemies REALLY can't do anything during then, and it also reverses a badly positioned support to perfect bait for a double kill. -She has less base stats than most marksman, giving them a REAL edge in a 1v1. Examples: Kalista to Ezreal: She has more health, more attack damage, more attack speed. But in return look at that! Ezreal has more mana, armor, and moveme-nevermind. Kalista to Sivir: The former has more health, more attack damage, more range, more attack speed and eventually more armor. Hey, 10 movement speed op, along with more mana and better armor at low levels. I can't believe people haven't complained about Sivir yet, she has so much more going for her, I bet she can top lane with those stats. -Kalista REALLY has it in early game, even when she gets item 3085 she has problems man, she squishy and got no lifesteal, what good is a item 1055 for lifesteal? The lifesteal is totally not applied to item 3085 and ending up healing Kalista more than other ADC's with it in that stage of the game. (The sarcasm is salty) So yeah like how is Kalista op? She got no damage on her ultimate just like Sivir, but more burst everywhere else, but you know that spell shield better than dashing every second. You know, Varus is just like her (Yes we must describe the older, former champion being like the new one, or your just a mean old loser.) except he got pass through skill shot deals more damage... After the cast time. Plus Varus gets 40% attack speed from his passive, what no it does not require a kill or assists I have no idea what your talking about go away. Compare that to a dash every second, I would take that raw attack speed over safety any day. End of sarcasm So yeah, I'm surprised Riot couldn't realize that she had no weakness early game nor any stage of the game unless she makes a mistake, like EVERY other ADC. I predict a giant nerf for Kalista, just like the Lucian one, at the end of this season. There is almost no weakness, not in her cooldowns, and nothing about her is predictable.

5 Comments

Juggernaut6283/9/2015, 12:37:03 AM3 votes

People complain about Kalista because the Kalista player is good, not because Kalista is skill-less.

JustMyBassCannon3/9/2015, 1:21:15 AM1 votes

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But item 3085 gives one raw stat instead of many stats, that all ADC's can't build... Except Kalista, you know because she has an on-hit effect ability that stacks infinitely and when activated deals one third of your health with five stacks... You can't argue with that though, she can't apply it while the ability is not on cooldown.

  1. It's definitely a viable option on Jinx due to her Q rockets and low innate AS outside of Gatling mode. Other options are less conventional, but it works for her. Just a nitpick.

  2. Kalista's Rend has a base of 20-60 +60% AD, and each additional stack deals 10-32 +20-30% AD damage. 5 stacks at rank 5 is worth 188 +180% AD; the minimum it deals without items is 323-384, from levels 9-18. At level 9, the lowest base HPs are 1000 and the lowest base Armors are 40. Assuming your target doesn't build any defensive items, for 5 stacks to deal 1/3 of a target's HP, Kalista would need 46-80 bonus AD. And that's against Anivia, Sona and Mini-Gnar with no defensive items whatsoever. There are champions with stronger innate defenses, let alone the fact that even Marksmen get a bit of defense out of Doran's Blade and a few other options.

Not to mention that Kalista's damage output quite seriously needs Rend to be worthwhile, as she has no steroids.