Kalista thoughts

Chairs·11/2/2015, 9:31:13 AM·1 votes·599 views

So, Kalista is not an easy champion to balance.

The recent Kalista changes on the PBE do the wrong thing in my opinion - nerf Kalista purely through numbers, and further nerf her attack moving. However, Kalista has some issues by virtue of her design. Making her benefit less from stats straight up (as they did with her passive twice now, AS and AD) is not only unelegant but also feels bad for players. I thought the ADC rework would be a good time to fix her up, but alas, I was a little disappointed, hence I am here to start a dialogue with Riot and the playerbase.

So what is the core idea behind Kalista? She is meant to emulate attack moving with her passive. That's pretty intense seeing as even amazing players will drop a little bit of time (frames?) to ensure their AAs go off when orbwalking, and as such lose DPS when making sure distance is optimal, or lose distance when making sure damage goes off, whereas Kalista will not. However, her passive fails to emulate a crucial part of attack moving, distance.** Usually, as you gain more attack speed, you get less distance inbetween attacks**, as you spend less time moving waiting for your AA cooldown. Kalista, however, doesn't. This is an insane strength. I suggest that her passive distance be changed to scale with movement speed rather than boots, and distance scale DOWN with attack speed. If the range right now is 300 with 0.5 attack speed, it'd be 150 with 1.0 attack speed! You would gain the same distance, but with the added benefit of repositioning more often and never losing DPS to having to deal with the technical skill of orbwalking.

Note: I'm not claiming this is exactly what Kalista needs, personally I think her W is a bit silly and R only activating when your binded target is not CC'd sounds wonderful, but it bothers me endlessly that orbwalking is emulated to such a poor degree that I can't even get a Zephyr on her lategame.

By all means, please discuss. Anything I missed? Is this a good solution?

1 Comments

Malaborath11/2/2015, 9:44:03 AM1 votes

Kalista is getting "nerfed" yet vayne is becoming ever more broken.