Kalista is just meh.

Dirty Dutch·12/1/2014, 11:17:58 PM·2 votes·468 views

I was very excited at the release of Kalista because of her a mobility, as many of you know, us experienced players who have been around since season 1 are relatively bored of the game and bored of the champions because we have played them all too often. What makes the game fun are champions that require a lot of skill, chance for outplay, and mobility. Kalista seems like a perfect fit. She is honestly really fun to play, anyone can tell you that i believe. However i feel that right now she is very lackluster. Her laning phase is really not the problem. She can trade evenly or more depending on how you play her. She excels at dodging skill shots and losing aggro. My problem with her is after laning phase is over. Her damage just isn't quite there with the other adcs. You almost cannot really do anything in a teamfight, people are casting huge abilities and massive damage is being thrown around and you are just chucking spears at the nearest champion which would probably be a tank and deal no damage to him. No power spike of any kind besides your W which clearly requires a lot of coordination and attentiveness. She does not severely benefit from rushing attack speed items nor does she really benefit from Attack damage items. Her passive kind of kills her attack speed and her abilties do not really benefit from the Attack Damage. So you are left with something i do not know what to call.

To be honest I'm not even really sure what changes could help her because she can definitely become a problem in lane if you buff her. I really want to hear thoughts on her from people that actually have a lot of experience in ADC and league.

2 Comments

DaCush12/1/2014, 11:35:48 PM2 votes

Ya, I agree. I was also extremely excited for her and she's just not as much of a threat in a team fight than other champions unless she's fed and ahead. Not to mention she's extremely too team reliant for solo q with her W and ult since you can't really coordinate in the spur of the moment unless you're in voice chat with your support and they know that you are about to ult them. I'm not sure on how to help her out either because I can already see these forums being flooded with "Kallista OP/toxic" threads like it was on day one with her.

Leti the Yeti12/1/2014, 11:19:26 PM1 votes

every adc benefits from attack damage ;l