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Kalista Rend Brainstorming

NO NOW·8/17/2017, 8:36:24 PM·3 votes·1,238 views
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When Kalista kills a enemy champion with Rend 25% of the damage from the executing rend spreads shards of spears to nearby allied units (this effect would be called Shrapnel)

I'm not a math expert, but let's try some math to help picture what the damage would be like:

Kalista has 230 AD (60% of this is 138)

60 + 138 = 198 198 per stack x 15 stacks = 2970 damage rend 25% of 2970 = 742.5

742.5 to each nearby player assuming you rend in the theoretical range of them.

I thought about this when I realized the state of Kalista and how she compares to the new champion Xayah, a champion who can fly into invulnerability AND shoot stacks over (in a fortunate situation) an entire team, not only bursting them, but also rooting them. I'm praising Xayah for her ability to be so impactful as an ADC, but my favorite marksman; Kalista, does not have such impact from a similar style of gameplay (stacks and invulnerability ult).

Remember that the developers of Kalista did intend for her Q to be able to spread stacks to nearby enemy units, which is a similar effect to the Shrapnel effect, but the likeliness and availability of this happening is very rare unlike the Shrapnel effect. (This is coming from someone who killed a lategame Twisted Fate by stacking a superminion then Q + E on him in 1900 MMR)

18 Comments

GinoSoldier8/17/2017, 9:47:49 PM3 votes

Kalista needs to be reworked into a Support. She has the free vision, the life saving ultimate, the lane pokes and the mobility to make it work. She has a strong thematic for it. She just needs couple tweaks, AND she could remain viable as an ADC.

-Rend only stacks damage from bonus AD with a better ratio, but now also stacks slow effectiveness and duration. At 3-5 stacks, she roots enemies. -Reduce Soul-Marked AS bonus by half, but also apply that same buff to the bonded ally. -Have the Soul-Marked passive damage grant the proc damage to whichever partner has the most AD. -Add some AP ratios but keep damage physical.

Howboutdat?

Slythion8/17/2017, 8:48:14 PM2 votes

I feel as though you're severely underestimating the usefulness of a Kalista. To compare Xayah to Kalista in a "stacking adc" tense is a pretty terrible comparison as well, because Xayah does not even "stack", nor does she provide the utility that someone like Kalista or Ashe provide.

Basically, I don't think they have such a "similar style" of gameplay as Xayah does not kite, stack, or provide utility in a way that Kalista does, nore do they even share the same niche of adc.

Mig898/17/2017, 8:44:47 PM1 votes

This would break her even more because they'd knee cap her so quickly

A Percocet 308/17/2017, 8:45:58 PM1 votes

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Sir Fuzzi8/18/2017, 12:01:27 AM1 votes

To brick your numbers into ezmode, 1000 damage at 25% is 250 spread if she kills (with 1000 damage).

What Kalista needs is to be built around her jumping rather than to just be an ADC who jumps. Make her pick up spears and lodge them in dudes rather than just constantly spamming for HIGHEST STAX XDDD. Make her weave in and out of the fight to maintain her damage patterns so she's not just flicking around at the edge of the fight constantly stacking and waiting for her opportunity to Rend to win.

Godsakes, make her do something besides be an ADC that jumps around.