Kalista needs nerfed

Blue Moon Wolf·Jan 20, 2015·9 votes·1,639 views

just had my first match vs since her release. At this point there are people who have learned how to play her right. In this match, I was playing support on the other team as . The hoping alone made it difficult to land hooks (the red camera didn't help much ether), but that's how she works, can't really say THAT is op, more like her kit counters mine. What bothers me is that I have a healthy amount of armor and MR and over 2000 hp (give or take), we are both the same level (somewhere between lvl 7-10) and she is managing to kill me in 3 hits (while I'm shielded for whatever that's worth), taking 1/4 my hp on each hit, then using her rend to finish me. she got 1 lucky kill and we where screwed for the rest of the match. she even stopped farming after a while and started roaming before we even lost a turret and STILL couldn't level up enough to match her. Riot, please do something about this nightmare.

14 Comments

Old Man TeetoJan 20, 20156 votes

Kalista's kit screams overtuned.

A permanent kite/chase passive that allows total uptime of auto attacking when played correctly.

This alone should be the primary strength of the champions.

However, Kalista gets poke, hard CC, burst, and an attack steroid.

Riot went and made a ton of anti-carry bruiser and tank champions after Ashe was dominant for the entire first season. Now we almost never see Ashe. Instead we see ADC's that can handle those anti-carry bruisers while still scaling insanely well.

When you look at a champion and go

"What champions would work good against them in Lane/Mid-game team fights/Late game team fights/Dueling"

And the only answers are champions who break even with them at some of sections, the champion's strengths and weaknesses are unfocused.

Kalista's weaknesses should be that she's significantly worse at dueling, raw damage, and against strong combo mages.

Instead, her passive allows her to dodge skill shots to avoid many combo mage spells, her ultimate gives her an insane team fight potential, and her dueling is only worse than Lucian, and Vayne/Twitch late. Her Q/W/E's damage make her shred tanks as well.

Sinister AnubisJan 20, 20154 votes

Kalista has no attack steroid, like other adcs. Her range is the shortest of any adc. She can only use half her kit when no oathsworn allies are near. Has only half control over her ulti. Her hop is bugged to where as if she gets huge amounts of attack speed 1 our of 3 hops does not work. I think she is fine right now but i wish her hop was fixed.

Long Dong WukongJan 20, 20154 votes

Her range is the shortest of any adc

The fuck are you talking about? No. She has 550 range, which is literally the average for adc's.

Gnar has short attack range for a ranged champion.

Sinister AnubisJan 21, 20152 votes

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The fuck are you talking about? No. She has 550 range, which is literally the average for adc's.

Gnar has short attack range for a ranged champion.

Since when is gnar considered a marksmen.

Long Dong WukongJan 21, 20151 votes

Since when is gnar considered a marksmen.

Since when did anyone say he was a marksman?

Gnar has short attack range for a ranged champion.

He has short attack range for a ranged champion, irregardless of role.

That aside, just to reiterate because you randomly found something to shift your attention to, Kalista outranges like 4 or 5 other ADC's at level 1.

WooBeeWooJan 20, 20153 votes

I hate the concept of Kalista so while I personally havent seen her much I NEVER want to get dominated by her in a game because it would piss me off. So yeah..... I'm down for nerfs lol

DelphiniumJan 20, 20153 votes

Riot already nefted Kalista in patch 5.1.

Remlap1223Jan 20, 20152 votes

Oh shut up.

DelphiniumJan 20, 20151 votes

Chill man

Remlap1223Jan 20, 20152 votes

Her passive and W are cancer. If they gated them better, I'd tolerate her at least.

DedriusJan 20, 20152 votes

You have only played 1 game against her, it is hard for you to be able to call her op.

She is pretty mediocre for the laning phase and if she is kept in check she basically turns into a worse vayne imo, besides her kiting mechanic but that is only truly an issue at higher elo. Yes she counters melee which is pretty annoying but I think it is hard to call her OP. Her with item 3085 however is pretty broken strong.