@Riot: Kalista is a Better Ashe

They actually have very similar kits and most of their difference are in the details.

#High level similarities:

• Both are ranged ADCs.
• Both have ultimates that initiate.
• Both have kite-centric kits.
• Both have long distance vision abilities.

#Areas where Ashe is stronger:

• Ashe's kite mechanism extends to her teammates.
• Ashe has higher AS, range, starting health, armor, and mana regeneration.
• Ashe's initiation has high base damage and is global.
• Ashe's Hawkshot is good for granting vision of an area on demand and has a lower cooldown ignoring the recharge mechanic.

#Areas where Kalista is stronger:

• Kalista has higher health at 18, AD, and health regen at 18.
• Kalista has much more damage in her kit. All of her abilities excluding her ultimate have strong damage components.
• Kalista's ability to kite is much more reliable and actually works against the dashes that the vast majority of champions have. She both has a gap creator and a slow, albeit not a permaslow.
• Kalista's Sentinel is on a lower cooldown, two of them can exist, and they're much more reliable for use as a passive warning system.
• Kalista's ultimate keeps her Oathsworn safe, bypasses a front line, immediately sets itself up for follow up, has a shorter cooldown, and cannot be cleansed.

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The reason anyone competitively picks Ashe is for her utility, yet Kalista fills in that niche in nearly all of the same ways and more. Come on Riot. Any time someone brings up Ashe you hide behind her win rate, which you yourselves repeatedly say is a misleading metric. Now that there's a champion that kicks her out of her niche can you please acknowledge that she needs some attention?