Kalistas Design Is A Fucking Joke

Leo1024·Feb 5, 2017·8 votes·984 views

How the fuck can anyone think a dash every auto can ever be balanced

15 Comments

WeatheredFeb 5, 20174 votes

They already said she is on the table for a rework (along with Azir), chill.

OurLestradeFeb 5, 20173 votes

I think the excuse they made for the balance of her and Azir is that they tried to make them too unique or something? Not sure.

Leo1024Feb 5, 20174 votes

Personally i just blame the designer, CertainlyT, dude just can't make a balanced champion, like at all

Darius completely broke top lane on release

Zed got nerfed repeatedly for being way too strong

Even if you don't think Yasuo is overpowered his kit is overloaded as fuck

Kalista can never be meta without being broken

There isn't a single situation where Thresh isn't a good pick or has a weak matchup

And everyone hates Zyra for being able to 1v1 the adcs because of all her plants

I wouldn't care so much but this dude consistently is just bringing up massive balance issues to the game and i don't wanna see him design another champion ever again

SnowplosionFeb 5, 20171 votes

CertainlyT was not the designer of Zed. He helped patch some bugs with the character, but he did not actually make the champion himself.

Leo1024Feb 5, 20171 votes

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CertainlyT was not the designer of Zed. He helped patch some bugs with the character, but he did not actually make the champion himself.

not the direct designer but he helped and was a kinda big part of zed

XeruonFeb 5, 20171 votes

CertainlyT is by no means a bad designer, however I think that a developer like him shouldn't be working on a game like League. His ideas are better fit for much faster-paced games. That being said, the new WW rework was a success.

SolarisCorvusFeb 5, 20171 votes

He helped with warwick though and ww isnt that bad.

JústicFeb 5, 20172 votes

That's totally why she is one of the lowest win rate adc champions right, besides urgot. This has to be a joke

The Lost MarblesFeb 5, 20172 votes

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That's totally why she is one of the lowest win rate adc champions right, besides urgot. This has to be a joke

That's what happens when you get heavily nerfed due to your train wreck of a passive.

Her passive actually has more downsides than it does benefits, simply because of how strong that one benefit is.

+Dash on AA ///

Autos deal 90% damage
Cannot cancel AAs
AAs miss if Kalista loses vision of her target mid-AA

Divine WindsFeb 5, 20171 votes

But she has reduced auto damage? And she cannot cancel autos

XeroKimoFeb 5, 20171 votes

Funny thing is, her base ad is pretty high and makes up for it early game, with standard runes and masteries, adcs have an average 72-75 ad at level 1, kalista has 80, and her aa's deal 90% so that's still basically 72 ad. When playing her tho, I've noticed, slows affect her jump range, or was it jump speed, I don't recall that patch ever happening, but it happened, so it's not that hard to close on kalista as a diver anymore, kalista would still be a juggernaut's worst nightmare tho, and most tanks

SnowplosionFeb 5, 20171 votes

Because she can't cancel her AA's, but yeah, she's pretty broken.

Asayake 5150glowFeb 5, 20171 votes

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Because she can't cancel her AA's, but yeah, she's pretty broken.

I guess the one superflawed counterplay is bush juking, the auto won't go through if she doesn't have vision of you when it hits.

SnowplosionFeb 5, 20171 votes

I'm not sure why or how that mechanic was put into the game, but it is there and it makes her lane phase more shitty than it could be.

Ariel the CruelFeb 5, 20171 votes

Kalista's passive was seen is a slightly improved Orb-walk during the design process. And it was thought that she could be gateway into introducing/improving player skill on that mechanic. The difference between a slowable walk and a CC delayed static speed jump wasn't accurately judged.

That's the official reason given by CT, anyways.