About Kalista...

Adal Tenshi·7/21/2016, 8:22:23 PM·6 votes·1,152 views

Hello. I am a currently Diamond V adc main that used to love Kalista and started maining her around last year. Right after I started maining her, though (maybe some months after), she got nerfed to death. And she had already been roughly nerfed before —for example, having a 90% damage on her autos, which to me is absolutelly nuts because no other champion has ever recieved a nerf directly into their basic attacks damage in such a way—, but the last ones, which were about 3 months ago, completelly killed her.

And I understand the community's hatred towards her, she's a champion that bounces between each basic attack, and being an adc, this isn't fun to front line against. However, there's reasons why I think she was ok. One of which can be, for example, that a slow can work as a stun for her if she ever tries to bounce (it slows the bounce in such a way you can't attack or move, practically, and it's very, very unpleasant). But I'm not even going to discuss that.

I'm gonna discuss what bothers me about her current state in the game. I don't mind if you need to rework her, I don't mind if you feel like you need to change one ability or all of them. I seriously don't mind. My problem with the creation that's behind Kalista is that you're completely discarding it and dumping it off the river with no consideration behind its work and its players whatsoever.

Kalista is a champion that felt unique, with beautiful looks, lore, voice acting and style. Forget about the jumps, just think of the time and effort put into such a master piece wasted just because OH SHE JUMPS KEK NERF PLS. A lot of people in the game loved it and a lot of people mained her for a long time. She was very popular on the competitive scene and I get that everyone was sick of her being banned often (nobody complains of other picks, which makes me jelly, but whatever. It feels like everyone hates Kalista like she's the 9 year old innocent girl bullied at school for being cute and jumpy).

If you want to change her in order to make her be back in the game, do it. But don't let her die like this. It's so sad for me to see her state every day in win rate sites, and having people dodge my ranked games because I try pick her once a year.

She's currently, as I'm writing this at least, sitting at 44% win rate. Come on, guys, that's not right.

Give her a little love. Or don't, just fuck her up, but make her win rate go up or at least make picking her not a reason for me to get battered every game to the point I need to act as if she never existed and never play her, when she's my favourite champion.

Tl;dr: Rework Kalista if you don't wanna buff her, but do something pls I really wanna plai her ;_;

Best regards; Kalista's husbando.

8 Comments

Big Wait Tenshi7/21/2016, 8:57:32 PM3 votes

What is a Kalista?

Jk :P Ye she is in a very bad place at the moment, never ever seen in ranked games if its not some one trick playing her or some Gosu like skillgod....and not even then. The fact that a simple janna w or lee sin e makes her a pain in the ass to play is quite ridiculous if u ask me.

Don't really have a solution for it to be honest or an epic idea, and im sure there is many of u that are thinking of ways to bring her back to the so called "meta" picks but its been a really long time since someone mentioned anything remotely close to Kalista.

Pls halp, all ADCs matter!!!

Cyaa

DænariusKhølerin7/22/2016, 3:55:21 AM2 votes

OH SHE JUMPS KEK NERF PLS.

That line had me rolling.

Anyway, I'm scared Riot is going to rework her in S7 or something. Whenever they feel like a champion is stuck because they can't buff them, this just seems to be the trend. D:

Lugg7/27/2016, 3:03:01 PM2 votes

She is really in need of a major rework. Her kit was horrible from the start, that's why they have to keep her in a weak state, she is just stupid OP if buffed at all.

5G8Nri0B547/22/2016, 5:43:15 AM1 votes

I don't hate her as an enemy so much as I hate supporting her as an ally...god...damn I hate her ultimate...

MLDzXnRRR7/22/2016, 6:09:42 AM1 votes

She is meant to be a niche champion that can kite immobile melees and has utility. If she is stronger, she becomes oppressive not only vs melees, but also vs the ranged mages and marksmen. Don't forget that winrate isn't everything. Even when LB had silence, her winrate was below 50 %...