Reduce Kalista's Range to 500 from 550 and she won't be broken anymore

vfactor95··2 votes·345 views

Now I despise Kalista just as much as the next guy, but contrary to popular belief on this forum she DOES have counterplay.

Kalista's playstyle is kind of like a dance with death, she has to stay within autoattack range to be able to use her mobility and on the other hand if someone gets too close her they can kill her. The best ways to deal with her are damage her outside of her attack range (xerath, ziggs, jayce, etc) or have access to targeted hard cc followed up by burst (usually requires coordinated team play).

So the problem right now is that Kalista's attack range is forgiving enough that she can comfortably kite champions around without ever feeling like she's in danger. By lowering her autoattack range suddenly the weaknesses inherent to her kit that have always been there but couldn't be taken advantage of are exposed and exploitable.

Of course she might need more number changes other than this, but personally I think the rest of her kit is fine the way it is. This, combined with the new black cleaver changes that have been helping a lot of ad fighters/tanks should put her in a better place.

If you disagree, state why and make your own suggestion but just try and keep the discussion productive. Saying "omg just remove kalista wtf was rito thinking" doesn't really do anything to solve the problem.

inb4 I get downvoted into oblivion for suggesting there's a way to fix Kalista other than removing her from the game

7 Comments

Dreadlocks2 votes

I've suggested this before, move her passive to an ability and give it a CD. Make it: For the next X amount of autos or X amount of seconds, she will "hop". Give her a new passive & Remove the infinite damage on her E.

vfactor951 votes

if she couldn't hop all the time she'd be trash tier probably, Kalista doesn't have much going for her other than the ability the kite. And the uncapped rend is really overrated if you let her attack you for that long think about how many times vayne would have procced her silver bolts and the damage doesn't seem that much in comparison

Kledy McKledFace2 votes

how do you counter play her 2k damages on baron/dragon? with smite? lol

Dreadlocks1 votes

Better have a smite top laner? lawl

vfactor952 votes

See people say there's no counter play to that and it's simply not true because it's got two weaknesses.

First of all, unlike smite, she has to stack it up for about 15 seconds before it does a significant amount of damage. So what this means is that yes you can't steal an objective you weren't prepared to contest.

Second of all, like smite, she can be cced before the objective goes down to prevent her from using rend. The best way to secure an objective, whether to prevent it to be stolen or to steal it, is to prevent the jungler from being able to smite it with cc. In this case the same can be done for Kalista.

I don't mean to sound condescending when saying this (but i'll probably end up sounding like it anyway) but it's things like in the forum that bother. We're all so quick to judge something as broken or op (myself included) that we never try and think of how deal with it and just beg Riot for nerfs.

kikiandcoco1 votes

Terrible idea

vfactor951 votes

See if you don't explain why you think it you've added nothing to the discussion. I'm completely open to talking about why or why I'm wrong but if you just say something without explaining why you might as well have not posted.

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