Another reason I hate Kalista

Meserion··14 votes·2,868 views

As a support, Kalista's oath forces you to spend all game with her, and after the laning phase I try to avoid the ADC unless its for teamfights, or pulling their slightly singed behinds out of the fire. The support role is more than just babysitting the ADC, its about helping the rest of the team with ganks, wards, and objectives.

See, I'm warding crucial points on the map and helping allies win what is left of their lanes either with a well-timed exhaust or assistance in pushing the lane. Also sometimes I'll grab the ruin potion (really good one imo) and go split push a tower if we're not going to teamfight. I personally hate the ADCs but I'd rather they not feed like crazy, which is why I support them so they don't die.

Kalista requires a support to babysit all game in order for her passive % damage and ult to work, which if she is farming and not helping with map awareness or dominance (yeah a ton of ADCs play with tunnel vision) then the support has to be there, severely limiting the usefulness the support has.

I think her oath should be recastable on another ally for this reason or maybe make her % damage work at 1/2 strength without an Oath; as it stands having Kalista on your team kind of ruins the supports global effectiveness.

15 Comments

Hayaishi3 votes

It doesn't force you to be with her, you can simply do whatever you want to do and group with her on crucial moments.

No need to be butthurt about Kalista you just picked a pathetic reason to hate.

Zomboto2 votes

She can buy a new spear and bind someone else after laning phase just tell her to do that

SecretAgentHulk1 votes

This is a really good idea. EDIT: wait, do you mean she can? or she ought to be able to?

Zomboto2 votes

She can. I've been maining Kali and you can get a new spear from the item shop for free

Dr Clueless PhD1 votes

HOLY BALLS. This information needs to be spread a bit more.

KidSpectre1 votes

She can. I've been maining Kali and you can get a new spear from the item shop for free

Riot had said that wasn't going live (when Kalista was still on the PBE). This is big, this needs visibility.

Rannou4 votes

You can't, it just makes this ding sound and it doesn't allow you to do so

SecretAgentHulk1 votes

OK, so the Kalista I played with last night (first one ever) wasn't a total dingus. (Still kind of a dingus for spearing our jungler instead of me, but at least she tried to get me.)

Junkο2 votes

I played against a Kalista that actually managed to buy a new spear, but she couldn't do anything with it and kept complaining about it(for a good reason, since it wasted 1 of her item slots).

Rannou1 votes

You can only ue it on 1 person, you can't change it even if you buy a new one (free)

Junkο1 votes

that's what i just said

Rannou1 votes

Yolo

Juhnie1 votes

No it doesn't. I don't understand how you've come up with that idea. ._. I've never felt as a support that I have to stick with Kalista all the time. She can function on her own perfectly fine, the support's presence just amplifies her.

EDIT: Also she can't rebind her Oathsworn like people posting before me have claimed. She can buy a new Spear but it doesn't do jack shit if she's already bound to someone. And that is how it's supposed to be.

Zomboto1 votes

i actually tried it last night and you guys are correct. riot left the spear in the store for some god aweful reason but it wont work on anybody if you have already made the pact with someone. kinda fucking stupid imo they need to just let you switch oathsworns if you want. my oathsworn support was feeding intentionally so it would have been real nice to switch it to my jungler but noooo

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