Kalista's abilities have been nerfed 12 times, over 8 patches. Three of those patches(90% AD on auto attacks, Jump speed gets affected by slows, attack speed moved to Oathsworn) were absolutely devastating. Even though she does a good 3-4k less damage per game on average compared to other ADCs, she's still picked for her UTILITY. Jesus christ, how broken was this champion on release?
Her entire kit is toxic as fuck and should never exist in the game.
Reminds me of ekko's release . . . oh wait riot buffed him to pick/ban status again. Seriously how hard is it for them to realize overloading makes it impossible to balance?
Just one of those things whose kit will remain OP even after dozens of nerfs.
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If they decide to nerf 
damage to 1 per hit, she will start getting picked as a support just as much.
Just think about it:
Free wards, check Save for her adc, check Mobility, check Damage boost for adc, check Slow, check
INB4 support Kalista
Heh, meet the child of CertainlyT, AKA, the worst champion designer in regards to balance.
You might know him from diamonds like 
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Or everyone favorite 
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Or the best rework evaaa!!!! 
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Jesus christ, how broken was this champion on release?
CertainlyT champ
'nuff said
Meanwhile:
(she was really broken on release, but now she's been nerfed into nothing more than a weak knockup bot)
It's not because she's broken. Her ult is perfect for teamwork, which is what LCS players practice. She has built in wards, relies on farm (LCS is a farm fest) and when teams can coordinate in a fight she's amazing. Some champs are just great in LCS, bad in solo queue and vice versa. Malzahar is great for picking people off when teams don't communicate, but in LCS he'd be useless unless in a 1v1 and nobody would 1v1 him.
Kalista was released during the off season, so she wasn't perceived as broken since there was no pro play at the time and people didn't know exactly how to build her. Once LCS got a hold of her, people really saw her for the cancerous overloaded piece of shit champion she is, literally 100% pick-ban up until halfway through season 5. Literally everything about her has been nerfed just so she can keep her hops, just overall an unbalanceable toxic champion.
Say it with me.
Certainly..... [zombie-brand-clap]
Because her kit screams LCS.
Mobility Free Wards (that roam) Teamwork Utility
Riot needed Lucian because his dash was to good
They then made an adc who can dash while auto attacking
And thresh use to have his R do damage on all walls more range on autos shorters cold downs and a shield that work on all teammates. Some kits can't be need with numbers
Lol Kalista isn't a priority pick in competitive, Lucian and Sivir are. And if you want to go off competitive history, do you know how long Lulu, Maokai, and Orianna have been competitive picks?
On release, nobody realized you should build Runaan's + LS stack on her, she wasn't picked before that build become popular.
Whenever you give an ADC scaling mobility, and an engage tool that throws your 
into an enemy carry to pulverize and headbutt him into your team without even having to flash, and the SINGLE STRONGEST BARON/DRAGON SAFETY NET SECURE IN THE GAME, its pretty easy to see why she had to be nerfed 12 times.
Oh, and her W gives you vision control, because why the fuck not.
It's a Certainly T champion so you can be Certain that it will be horrendously broken and overpowered and have too much built into the kit. That's something you can guarentee will happen when this guy designs champs.
she was disgusting on release. still is lol
she has always had 90% of her ad on auto attacks. I wish her jumps weren't affected by slows though because it just ruins her completely. Riot wants champions to be very specific, very defining, and to make every game feel different. Kalista is meant to be a utility beast but when every champion in the damn game can slow someone either with an ability, 
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it just becomes increasingly painful and difficult to play her properly. Even more so now that fucking frost queens claim is in every damn game and sometimes two frost queens.
I would say that this isn't even a great meta for her. Season 5 was a great season for her because it was a true tank meta (unlike how this meta people can build tanky and do shit tons of damage at the same time) and her E shreds tanks when activated with tons of stacks. She is sustained damage and this meta does not favor that. This meta favors burst. Be glad this isn't a sustained damage meta lol.
Meanwhile Ezreal's kit is less than a shadow of its former self and he's currently a solid pick for utility from blue build
it was broken as fu*k like many release its just the way riot make money they make sure the new champ is broken so peoples buy it right away with rp if they don't have enough ip thats also why they put the new champ at 7800 ip now just to make sure you buy it with rp such a poor compagny
