Ideas to tune down Kalista's mobility

WeihGuy·11/22/2014, 5:43:28 AM·7 votes·1,335 views

Having an unstoppable auto attack doesn't mean squat as soon as she gets attack speed. It becomes a joke to fight her as a melee champion. In a perfectly balanced game, every champion, no matter if they get countered, should be able to have at least some room to outplay his enemy and at least not get destroyed. Kalista completely poops on melee champions as well as skill shots and it's just bad gameplay to feel useless against her. Every kiting mechanic should be limited somehow by cooldowns or other limitations.

Her passive could go something like this


She can dash only when she Q, procs W's passive and uses E which is nice because it has a cooldown reset. That is 3 dashes in 8 seconds (max rank abilities).

Alternatively you could even do something like this: Each time Kalista uses Q, procs W's passive or uses E she stores a charge of Martial Poise (up to a max) which allows her to dash on her next auto attack.

Reduce dash range when slowed

An idea from another post: Make her dashes smaller when dashing towards a direction that isn't her soul bound ally


Let me know what you think and if you have any ideas yourselves!

8 Comments

ratclan11/22/2014, 5:59:12 AM3 votes

I think this is the first great idea I have heard to tune down Kalista yet. I really feel like her hopping and skipping every auto-attack is a joke, it really makes it hard to do anything too her once she has a statikk shiv or any attack speed item.

WeihGuy11/22/2014, 8:53:05 PM1 votes
Fimo11/22/2014, 8:57:48 PM1 votes

Yep. upvote this shit. Slows doesn't even affect her. Nerf this overpowered kiting potential. summoner 3

Madra11/23/2014, 3:10:42 AM1 votes

Getting hit with a snare, stun, or root should disable her passive for the interim and for 1.5 seconds after the negative condition wears off. If there is one character in the game that should be reliant on having someone peel and protect her it's the one who can throw a whole other champion out in front of her.

WeihGuy11/24/2014, 8:34:18 PM1 votes

Added a new interesting idea from another post.