Some thoughts on Kalista's E

TehNACHO·Mar 1, 2015·1 votes·366 views

Has anyone noticed that, functionally speaking, Kalista's E is essentially the same as:

Kalista deals bonus Physical Damage on her Auto Attacks and Pierce. Spears beyond the first deal reduced bonus damage.

I just want to open the discussion where we don't think of Kalista's Rend as an infinitely stacking nuke, but instead a hidden auto attack modifier. At max rank for example, Rend essentially gives all her Pierces and Auto Attacks an extra 32 damage and 30% AD ratio, which is *huge *and comparable to some of the strongest hyper carries in the game.

This is really to draw context to the situation surrounding Kalista. For example, wasn't there a certain S4 ADC who got everybody's attention for being an extremely mobile ADC with hyper-carry like scaling and tons of innate safety? And how did we tackle her when balance issues swung around?

2 Comments

DestructoDaveMar 1, 20151 votes

Kalista is just a dumb champ. For one, the problem with rend is the fact it secures neutrals, and makes her laning pretty dumb, since she can effectively 30-40% execute someone just from a favorable trade in lane. Watch games with her in them; hell just last night in OGN KT Arrow was getting murdered just because he decided to trade AA's with her; he got executed under the turret from about 40%. That is dumb.

Also, she is just a slap in the face to ADCs. She completely trivializes the main skill you have to learn as an ADC player, and that is being able to kite effectively while doing maximum damage. She completely trivializes this skillset. Because, you can just spam attack move and it procs her passive. That alone is stupid. All you have to do is just spam attack moves in the opposite direction and said player looks like doublelift. Attack move really should not proc her passive. Im sure some people could literally play that way only, with very little mouse precision, and just use rend to finish off the mobs in lane you didnt happen to hit enough, which costs nothing, and resets on a kill.

But yea, the champ itself is just dumb. I dont know why they let an ability scale that hard, and I dont know why they allowed such a strong passive to be proc'd in an easy way. They should have to do a normal movement click to proc her passive, and not allow attack move to proc it. It makes kiting way too easy; you can just spam attack move until your finger falls off, and do max dps to whoever is chasing you, without having to use any typical ADC skill at all.

LordCrazyGlueMar 1, 20151 votes

I couldn't agree more with Kalista just being a broken champion concept that Riot clearly did not think through. All you have to do is see a match where Kalista rushes a Hurricane and can solo spam a tower and dance around it like an idiot. Takes no skill and very forgiving for newer players. Also, there is no counter play to her passive. I though Riot was getting rid of abilities that have no counter play.