@Meddler State of Kalista
I gotta say that while Kalista's power quota is very high, she's a champion that struggles a lot if the oathsworn isn't really taking advantage of being linked to her, from being ult-less to straight having 0.58 attack speed at lvl 1 :S not having the oathsworn around is probably Kalista's death sentence.
And I get it it's her weakness but it's way too punishing.
I really enjoy playing Kalista but I know that using her in a ranked or a normal game will end up in defeat most likely since people in silver can't really take advantage of her kit, that being said I do play her a lot in rotating game modes but I always struggle way too much during early game, specially since my oathsworns aren't particularly happy about being linked.
not to mention she's particularly troll-ish, her oathsworn animation is really unnecesary and then being linked to that person forever is really unsatisfying. Take Taric for example, he can relocate his link anytime he wants and it comes with a hefty shield as well, of course, relinking the oathsworn would allow you to throw anyone forward so that would be even worse...
At this point I think that Kalista could use a small rework:
- a component on her ult for when her oathsworn dies could be interesting or maybe her ult could change to something else if there's no one around
- Remove the casting animation when she casts the sentinel and reduce the recharge time, in comparison Ashe's hawk which serves almost the same purpose is WAY more useful
- Remove that thing where her autos miss if she has no sight of her target, really she's the only one with this kind of handicap, probably because she has the sentinel but if you want to scout a bush you're stuck in that animation and you gotta wait until the sentinel walks over there... the sentinel happens to be REALLY slow as well and they can kill it before it can detect them......
- Remove the animation from the black spear, actually, remove the black spear :S, make her Sentinel something that her team can click or receive a the oathsworn buff or something!
What do you guys think? I know Kalista was really really strong int he past but I think she was nerfed to the ground a bit too hard and now she can't even get up :C