Time for a Kalista Rework?

BlueBilberry··3 votes·1,962 views

Isn't it time that Kalista got a rework (like Ryze and now Morde)?

Here's my reasoning:

  1. When she is good in LCS, she is very strong. Nearly too strong.

  2. On the solo/duo queue boards, she is a total problem. If she is duo'd with a support who knows what they are doing, she is pretty darned hard to stop. And if you are unfortunate enough to be solo queued as support and paired with a bad Kalista, you might as well write off the game.

  3. On top of that if you are a solo queued on a squishy support playing at a higher ping, when the Kalista presses her ult,it might as well be a death sentence. Whatever the Kalista may have had in mind when she hit her ult, is irrelevant. Your moves have been entered, the situation which may have been ideal for the ult has passed, and the support is probably going to be wiped.

Suggestion: At the very least, on reflection, as a mini re-work maybe her ult could be replaced with something else with the rest of the mechanics smoothed out. Otherwise, just overhaul her. She feels like a rough, rushed concept - and needs some dev love.

6 Comments

xDogMeatx3 votes

kalistas ult is about trusting your ally more than trusting yourself which is pretty hard to do as adc. thats why kalista pulls her ally in kench styled then the ally chooses (by free will. not a extra missile shot or throw them into the zombies adc mentality) throws at the either way retreat to survive or pursue/cc the enemy or goes to a safer location.

VolatileAkali3 votes

She isn't rushed, she is just broken.

ŚmierćSamobójcom1 votes

I play Kalista regulary. 450k mastery point actually 43% winratio. No one know how this champ works! She got more problems than simple buggs of her movement, passive. Q, E and R. Imao she should be repaired or reworked.

Her passive is not a buff. She lost attack speeds when she is slowed, even when she is not moving.

  1. Her Q : If i hit trough few targets its always 1 spear in last target. Why!?
  2. Her E : Its not a spell! its not working with Spellbinder, Muramana or Kassadin E passve and Maokai passive.
  3. Her R : its a channel spell for suport. The range is increased in time, but if u press it fast u last in random site. not even in kalista place.
  4. Her W : Its just useless. Its a random vision. Its RNG that its give u a vision on evemy. 5% max dmg is uslees... even 15% max health on 18 lvl, becouse no one pick that spell and support usually dont use atacks.

Kalista should be 1st adc with no mana. She has no mana pool tho. 231 – 825. Its a joke. When on 6 lvl i got 400 mana and i cant use combo, becouse i haven't got enough mana.

Kalista W should be send without interrupting attack or spells and it should be faster than 280ms. Maybe Kalista actual ms? Every other ADC can use all spells in TF, but kalista not... This spell must be reworked.

Sorry for my bad english.

ThunderOrigin1 votes

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  1. Her Q : If i hit trough few targets its always 1 spear in last target. Why!?

All spears on targets are transferred, Ive performed 200+ dmg executes on low HP ADC level 2 no problem, with 4 stacks on casters a Q through E buffered.

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  1. Her E : Its not a spell! its not working with Spellbinder, Muramana or Kassadin E passve and Maokai passive.

Regarding Muramana, re-read the item.

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  1. Her R : its a channel spell for suport. The range is increased in time, but if u press it fast u last in random site. not even in kalista place.

As mentioned by another, ping affects this.

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  1. Her W : Its just useless. Its a random vision. Its RNG that its give u a vision on evemy. 5% max dmg is uslees... even 15% max health on 18 lvl, becouse no one pick that spell and support usually dont use atacks.

Not useless, requires both ADC and Support to be on same page, useful for minion executes to counter push if the opposing team has more waveclear. Likewise good for range duo poke, kalista lux is insanely devestating as both have auto passives.

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Kalista should be 1st adc with no mana. She has no mana pool tho. 231 – 825. Its a joke. When on 6 lvl i got 400 mana and i cant use combo, becouse i haven't got enough mana.

Mana isnt an issue as rend is refunded with kill, mid game you should never have an issue, unless you are spamming Q for poke, or you don't E reset. Sure lane may be tight on mana pool in early levels, but this had to be changed countless times because Auto E reset harass lane bully was too strong in pro play.

As for tips... stack all three casters, Q through either one or two of the casters, onto ADC, buffer E with reset on remaining caster. DONT build more Crit, as crit animation speed is buggy, I miss the old 70% Runaan; build AD, AS, Lifesteal, onhit. Pick fights over objectives (baron, drake, tower defence, even scuttle/buffs early) whenever your ult is up. Kill, push, rotate and roam (see above) with support and force the pace early.

KVbqbFsC8e1 votes

It was time for a Kalista rework the moment she was released.

Ethically Fatal

Fix her bugs and convert her 90% AD ratio back to 100% AD ratio please. Not only that, but rework her ult into something that makes her less support reliant. Furthermore, balance her off of her ult and her passive

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