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Kalista is just not fine

TraaZ·8/18/2016, 12:01:31 AM·2 votes·616 views

Hi,

Kalista

Kalista was my main adc for a long time, but there are 2 things that made Kalista useless.

  • Any other ADC destroy kalista in the early game, even with the support passive.
  • When boots bonus got removed, kalista lost a very important thing, this should be replaced by something else in my opinion.

And I know some people say kalista is awesome in the late game but lets be honest here, every adc is a beast in the late game, and currently there are better adcs in late and early. Also, please have in mind that mostly of you guys use rune pages, what about new players? Kalista without atk speed runes is useless, you cant even take some dmg in the runes, you need all the atk speed, so you wont have any dmg til the first item item 3153 , and you will be useless til you get the boots and 2 items item 3085 .

In that time any other adc already have crit item 3085 and dmg item 3031 , so no matter how much you can move, they have more dmg, and mostly adcs doesnt have skillshots so its not that important to be moving.

Just think about this, would you pick kalista when there are way better adcs? Ashe Caitlyn Jhin Ezreal Twitch Tristana Lucian MissFortune KogMaw Sivir etc Urgot No, so she needs a buff.

"But Kalista's late is broken" Then buff only the early game, for example give kalista more atk speed when she's close to the support, or make W's passive deal more dmg so she can have some poke.

Kalista is getting 40% winrate in under 30 min games and in the very late her winrate decreases as well, so its not worth to be picking a champion that his only powerspike is at min 40 and last some minutes.

You can't be nerfing champions with great late making their early useless while Yasuo and Riven still the same way, it just doesnt make sense.

Thanks.

7 Comments

Treune818/18/2016, 12:41:52 AM2 votes

Very weak champion.I hope she gets buff on patch 6.19.

Matezoide8/18/2016, 12:54:27 AM1 votes

Kalista does not need a buff and is miserable to play with/against. She needs a rework. Until then she should be left in the trash can.

LankPants8/18/2016, 12:54:51 AM1 votes

Kalista needs a rework. There's no way around it. Her passive is an abomination and should have never been allowed into the game.

Until she gets that rework leaving her weak is the correct course of action.

ThunderOrigin9/10/2016, 6:48:14 PM1 votes

Hard engage and soft CC shuts her down more so than against any other adc who at least have burst to contribute before their demise. Kalista is weak, she only dominates in casual play because she emphasises how a good positional play ADC can kill people that have no idea how to position, but ANY ADC can do this. People that complain that she is broken, are just bad at positioning in teamfights.

Why was she so good in Pro play, as surely they all know how to position, because of the low mobility tank meta, where a pre nerfed BotRK shredded, and a 70% attack speed Runaan's provided, that shred rate. So her core built items were perfect for her, with the rework of Runaan's, that's a less than ideal cost effective item, but essential for her multi target use of Rend; she already started to lag behind.

Where we are at now is that DPS at full builds are terribly behind other ADCs, and as mentioned no upfront burst. Crit are less effective due to 90% AD ratio on AAs, and the crit animation bug reducing her attack rate, further reduces her dps.

Give her at least: Double spear stacks on critical hit. Fix the slow crit animation bug, and I'm sure she will have a reasonable place, for out positional play skill.