@Meddler State of Kalista

Hige··3 votes·687 views

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

10 Comments

CR4ZYRONDH4VI2 votes

Also, I think that she should be able to do 100 percent AD on basic attacks, not just 90%. Idk why thats in there since she doesn't even build crit. Her AAs don't do much damage to begin with. Also, i think that this would allow her to 1v1 more and make her into a better champion like vayne.

Hige1 votes

well I think the excuse for that is her bouncy jumpy stuff, there was a time when Kalista was 1v5 succesfully xD so... yeah

CR4ZYRONDH4VI1 votes

Yeah I mean most of her damage comes from her rend stacks anyways.

Hige1 votes

that's the thing... one of her most important skills is counting rend stacks and kind of figuring out how much dmg they'll do, yet without your oathsworn you loose attack speed and your ult, you can't apply rend stacks as much and all you can do is using your Q which has a nice scaling but then you miss attack speed from W if you max Q second (first is rend always I think)...

She's gated EVERYWHERE.

CR4ZYRONDH4VI1 votes

Yeah she is the weakest 1v1 adc imo. They gotta fix that a bit.

Hige1 votes

well, it seems like only you and me have opinions on Kalista :/ it was a good convo though! hopefully internally Riot has some plans for her!

CR4ZYRONDH4VI1 votes

yeah agreed. I mean with a good support she is as strong as the others. But it sucks that you have to rely on that unlike other adcs like jinx or vayne or lucian do lol. have a good one lol

CR4ZYRONDH4VI1 votes

I agree with you. Her win rate is pretty bad too tbh lol.

Hige1 votes

Wow I hadn't check her win rate O.O I figured I just sucked haha but wow yeah the more reason to change her :S

Hige1 votes

I'd like to read people's comments on this :/

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