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Tips Against Kalista in Bottom Lane Tips Provided by MOBAFire Guide Authors
IHaveNoName says “In early game she's fearsome, her Spears won't let you go unless you kill her fast enough. She gets less threatening in late endgame, as you outscale her easily.”
LegendaryOstrich says “This match up has changed a lot in the new season because of hail of blades and conqueror on her. Laning against her is fairly the same, if she has a rend stack on you try to back away from minions so she doesn't get a reset. If Kalista is able to get ahead of you in lane consider building ninja tabis.”
ELOSANTA says “Lucian dominates Kalista in lane and is a very easy match up. Don't be afraid to dash into her with your E in the laning phase since your damage output is much higher than Kalista's in the early to mid game.”
Vapora Dark says “I personally hate Kalista, too much free mobility and insane damage with her W passive. When she autos you make sure to stay away from her and her lane partner, she excels in extended trades and out maneuvering you. Trade with your 4th shot ready and bounch your grenade to her because she needs to be in auto range to do most of her damage, at level 6 she can all in easily by throwing her support at you so be ready for that with some traps. Outscale and outrange her, by mid-late game you should be able to kill her in a bullet or 2, so long as you properly prepare your E and ult.”
R3Veal says “Her ultimate is useless without her support. Don't try to 1vs1 her as she can dodge your W in the fight easily with her passive. Also watch the spears which she sticked into you.”
Profesor APH. says “Shes strong and she is one of the best counter of aphelios she can throw her support close to you (if this is thresh he can grab you) she can save his support from ur ult her dash is not problem you can life still your self but her ultimate doing all work”
DoublefeedOP says “This is a threat to Samira because she can stack her rend through your W so if you can't secure a kill quickly you'll die just as fast and her R makes it so that you can't do much when you use your R.”
DoublefeedOP says “Kalista is in a pretty bad spot but even then you can't deny her early game cheese. Be sure that you can either confidently land your W on her or that you can just CC chain her to death. She's going to win extended trades against you so just make sure whenever you fight her to make them short bursts.”
DoctorDingus says “Impossible to stun, easy turret clearing medium range - hard cc support such as Rakan, Alistar, Sett, Nautilus can cause the win for your side!”
Melyn says “Max Q and learn her movement patterns to more easily land your root. Do not burst the support when Kalista is level 6 as she can save them with her ultimate. If Kalista gets behind, she can't do anything. If she gets ahead, you can't.”
GodMulti says “Kalista is a skill matchup. Be carefull when you go for a trade, you win short trades but she wins long trades.
Keep in Mind that she can save her Supp out of your Ult or that she can Interrupt your Ult with her own, by throwing her Supp into you.”
jhoijhoi says “Like Twitch, Kalista can apply stacking damage if you let her get close. Should she land Pierce on you or many auto-attacks, be wary of Rend which is a powerful slow and nuke. If you are within range of Kalista it is difficult to escape thanks to her passive [[Martial Poise]], which lets her ignore your slow from [[Frost Shot]]. She relies on being with her Oathsworn partner to use her ultimate, making her formidable when they are together, but vulnerable when she is alone.”
SINKEMALL says “Generally skill matchup, just respect her early level pressure and the amount of rend stacks she has on you. You outscale her late game. I highly recommend building Iceborn into her because slows are the absolute bane of her existence.”
Ultrama says “Watch out for this girl, she don't look as dangerous as she is. Don't do long trades, she will destroy you. Don't try to chease her, she will kite you to death.”
Msloikturbo says “Rare sight, yet when met will try to evicirate you guts. She excels at early duels, and will rip you to shreds if you make one misstep. If you survive early/midgame, you're good.”
SweatMeALake says “Right now Kalista's only chance in beating you is if she can stack on you, which is a hard job against you since you outrange her. Keep your distance and poke her. Kalista here is rather squishy and is really support reliant to get damage onto you. You need to be able to dish out damage and be safe at the same time, and punish her when she is out of position with your ultimate. ”
Spection says “ RARE. An easy lane. She can sort of kite you with her weird passive, but it doesn't work too well when she's stunned. She lacks any other method to escape you. Kalista is unbelievably squishy, but you better be careful of those little spears stacking up. They go through your passive! Don't focus her support because she can instasave them with her ultimate. Thresh and Kalista make a scary combo who can easily save one another if one gets focused.”
ShroudedBRH says “Her early game and poke deals more damage and is cheaper then yours despite her range disadvantage, you'll scale better later into the game. Taking exhaust here lowers her threat level significantly as it will limit her damage output significantly due to her jump mechanic scaling off attack speed”
Camelorry says “Kalista is a lane bully, this lane will be decided by which adc gets caught by the enemy. If she gets ahead play for late game, you outscale her. Consider taking exhaust.”
StriveHD79 says “Another strong all in champion, has the ability to hop around for everytime she autoattacks that will help her gap close very easily onto you and kill you. Look for short trades, do not do any extended trades or you risk dying to her. Very easily outscaled, so farm safe and do not die.”
StriveHD79 says “Kalista is very strong early, even with your range advantage. She can very easily dash with autoattacks to gap close onto you. I would avoid fighting or trading with Kalista early on, you will outscale her massively, try to build stormrazor as 1st or 2nd item, the passive slow does very well against her.”
StriveHD79 says “Another strong all in matchup, avoid long trades, go for short trades with your W + Auto attack when possible then walk back. She can hop around to close the distance by auto attacking.”
StriveHD79 says “Another strong all in champion, has the ability to hop around for everytime she autoattacks that will help her gap close very easily onto you and kill you. Look for short trades, do not do any extended trades or you risk dying to her. Very easily outscaled, so farm safe and do not die.”
KXNGLXXVII says “i wouldnt recommend you take extended trades with kalista because if you fail to kill her shes gonna rip all of the spears out. your movement speed should help you keep up with her but your best option is to block the Q and take really short obnoxious trades like aa>Q>aa or just poke with your Q from max range. ”
StriveHD79 says “High kill pressure. Kalista is very strong early, so avoid trading/all-ining against her. She can stack tons of spears onto a minion and use her Q to transfer the spear stacks onto you and with rend it will do massive damage, so keep that in mind. You heavily outscale Kalista so play safe in lane and you will be okay.”
Spider Shaped says “Держитесь подальше от Калисты. Её e просто может уничтожить вас. Калиста сама по себе может убивать многих дальников и ближников 1 на 1,и Эзреаль входит в то же число.”
yers says “Highly mobile due to her passive, she can easily dodge your attacks as long as she Q's or has something to AA. Try looking for long range poke combos and make sure she's out of range to AA something such as a minion or support before doing so.”
StriveHD79 says “Another strong all in champion, has the ability to hop around for everytime she autoattacks that will help her gap close very easily onto you and kill you. Look for short trades, do not do any extended trades or you risk dying to her. Very easily outscaled, so farm safe and do not die.”
snukumz says “It's super hard to land your skillshots on her due to her ridiculous mobility.
Her ult is scary too because it puts their support right on top of you.
She is super squishy though, and luckily you'll still have plants to do some damage even if you initial skill shots miss. ”
Terrific says “I honestly have no problem against this because your early game is way stronger and her late game isnt that very good. You'll just win in every stage of the game if you do not fall behind.”
Alonixlol says “A Challenger level Kalista wins almost all lanes, but the average Kalistas you'll encounter in your games won't be quite so impressive, generally winning against low threat ADCs, going even against medium threat ADCs and losing to high threat ADCs.
She's a lane bully that can pressure opponents quite well with her high mobility, low CD trading and strong poke to develop healthy CS leads, but she lacks upfront damage in fights, loses DPS when slowed and is generally quite easy to kill once locked down. However, when in a winning matchup she can be very oppressive due to her high mobility and ability to help her support engage.”
Twiggymocha says “You will probably be able to 1v1 her in late and early even, just do not take too much free harass or get a lead, otherwise she snowballs out of control.”
SuPIeX says “Kalista benefits from longer trades, and you can play around this easily. Keep your trades short and she has no way to match your damage.”
TotallyEclipse says “Wtf this is meta now? Her autos will keep her naturally kiting away making it impossible to stick onto her. She does insane damage and by the time you jump on her you're half hp. Dodge this one”
Zoodyacc says “If you manage to hit the Condem [E] you'll most likely win the matchup, Kalista struggles a lot against any CC's, but so do you. You might not be able to trade against her early, due to her huge damage there, however she'll disappear in a blink of the eye during late game.”
TwentyOneShadows says “The lane will be even, she won't let you to be close enough to poke her, simply if she knows what she's doing you won't get any kills on her, unless lategame where she becomes weaker and weaker, that's when you have a chance to shine.”
atonementblade says “Pretty weak damage but can easily kite you with her passive. Shove the wave under tower and poke her with your Q when you can. Don't stand behind a low health minion who has a bunch of spears in it, or she will Q it and transfer the spears to you.”
atonementblade says “When properly commanded, this champion is pretty hard to pin down. Of course, you have no skillshots, so her dashing won't cause you any problems there, but she hop away from walls so you can't as easily land stuns.”
ItsPaulygon says “Kalista is a bit tricky, but the trick is to not just get a lot of rend stacks, you can burst her down so if you have a good engage support, you win this match up easily.”
LupinTheCat says “Try to predict where she is going to land, that is all
Seriously why did riot buff her for once and then nerf her right away? for once she got love ”
Bebras19 says “In early game she's fearsome, her Spears won't let you go unless you kill her fast enough. She gets less threatening in late endgame, as you outscale her easily.”
MayeLeven says “Below level 6, try to avoid trading with her, becouse with her E, she can easily kill you. After level 6 you can kill her with your R. Your only chance to kill her, if you attack her first.”
Midorima says “If a Kalista is good, like, really fucking good. You stand no chance until cutlass.
To win this match up: You must have cutlass to stop the amount of jumps she can get off and avoid all trades. All-inning her if your only hope if she's good.”
ZERO Destructo says “Kalista is a true nightmare. With her passive she can avoid bot your W and E. Poke her with 4th shot and dancing grenade, and when she starts attacking you pull out of her E's range. A support with massive CC is her ruin tho.”
ReallyBoring says “Don't underestimate her, the best play is to wait for a hook or ganks. This champion is made for the early game but very useless late. When you see her use rend(e) and it does'nt execute the minion try to take as many trades as you can while its down. Luckily this match up is extremely rare as she is a low priority pick. ”
Eccentricks says “I have legit never fought one of these outside of a singular Draft match. So, your guess is as good as mine. Only info you need is she wont appear a lot.”
Deathfeather says “She gets mad at the support then literally throws them at you, so idk man. She does lots of damage but is also really weak so you should just win unless shes a god and you suck.”
Mr. Nyahr says “Avoid letting her get spears onto you, as the damage from her E can be crazy. Poke her when you can and abuse her pre-level 6. Be aware of where she sends her Sentinels, and play safe.”
Laverenz says “Kalista is a quite weak ADC right now, as she just can't keep up with the burst in this game. Laning against her i fairly easy, as you can just punish her if she attacks you. Stay behind minions and farm up to level 6, where you then can fight her if you dodge her ult. ”
philsopaoto says “Kalista, while currently being a low tier ADC, is able to out-maneuver Xayah's feather easily with her jumps. But Kalista is still quite underpowered in her current state, thus it should be a relatively easy lane to win.”
Kynaz0071l0l says “Kalista is very weak atm so you should easily kill her early, but its said that she will make a big comeback in season 10 so watch out for that. ”
Eucalyptus says “Hard to come by this match-up but Graves can out kite her by slowing her (Stormrazor plus Fleet) and abusing his Nearsight to cancel out her mobility. Need more experience to properly judge, easy in theory mostly and the champ is just straight dogshit in solo queue.”
Fruxo says “Careful to her lvl 6 on lane. Dodges your W easily with her auto attack quick jump, try to catch her out and follow her positioning. She becomes a really deadly force in the late game though once she gets a few items.”
MrDecoy says “don't opt in for long trades with her as you will get chunked on the way out by her e, shorts trades when your w is up is the best way to win lane, after lane she isnt a threat to you”
dravenfizz says “I honestly haven't played this matchup that much, kalista pokes you with her rend as she gets a reset if it kills a target, her all in can be very scary too so pay attention to their support and yours in this matchup. ”
Fruxo says “Careful to her lvl 6 on lane. Dodges your root easily with her auto attack quick jump, try to catch her out and follow her positioning. She becomes a really deadly force in the late game though once she gets a few items.”
IPodPulse says “Barely a champ at the moment. She suffers too many problems and is weak against every champ. Try not to let her get too many spears in you and stay away from low health minions with a lot of spears in them, a well timed Q will transfer the spears to you and can deal a good amount of damage.
Her hopping speed is really slow in the early game, try to use skill shots on her when she doesn't have the chance to hop.”
Righteous Maniac says “Troll pick atm, might update if she becomes meta later. But just poke the shit out of her and all in when you can, you just should dominate her.”
Exs Xena says “The entire thing Kali is based around is her "hopping and jumping", counterplay this with Volley and she won't be able to pressure you in lane. ”
Potato95x says “Her AA and Q will let her dash (passive). Don't trade too long and don't try to chase her, she'll just kite you to death. Play very passively and ask for ganks whenever possible.”
SimbaADC says “Kalista has been a very weak soloQ pick for a while now. Abuse her low range and worse wave clear to get poke and tower plates. Respect the strength of her level 2/3/6 all in with supports like Thresh, Rakan or Alistar.”
FrankynFood says “I have underestimated her so many times early game. Try not to 1v1 her, because she will just stack her spears and obliterate you. Wait will you have 2 items then start shredding her. ”
SlashLion says “Her ult is useless without her support. Try not to 1v1 as she can dodge your W with her passive and long engagements with Kalista can result in a lot of damage when you least expect it. Aside from that she is an easy matchup.”
MallisTheGreat says “If you don't poke her before she engages you, you are most definitely dead. So get her low to discourage her and then engage her instead.”
MallisTheGreat says “If you manage to poke her before engaging, she can be taken down pretty quickly. Even if you don't try to predict her pounces, only a sideways pounce will dodge your W spell, so you don't need to worry.”
Vortiris says “She can dodge your feathers, but it's going to be hard for her to with only Martial Poise. Just like you, she has amazing burst, but close to no CC without her partner. If you can predict when she's going to use Rend, counter it with your Featherstorm.”
KawaiiNeko says “Avoid any fight with [[Kalista]] in the early game unless your jungler is ganking your lane, because she can kill you easily with her rend since you are really squishy.”
Levi Senpai says “Shes strong but you rarely seem to find people who can player her , her range tho isnt that good + she can kill you as long as she stacks her E on you , which is something she wont have time to do since you can kill her in 3 autos with critical build ”
Fruxo says “Careful to her lvl 6 on lane. Dodges your W easily with her auto attack quick jump, try to catch her out and follow her positioning. She becomes a really deadly force in the late game though once she gets a few items.”
jster131 says “Absolute dogshit champ unless you have RNG Uzi playing her. Her early game is terrible,and he rate game is only god if she is ahead and if she has a strong engage support such as alistar, or thresh. Just poke the fuck outta her and farm up those kills in the botlane.”
TruMediaMix1 says “You can greatly limit Kalista's mobility thanks to your passive. She cannot counter your Enchanted Crystal Arrow unless she uses a Flash or jumps to the side with her passive.”
Xerxes Is ADC says “she's scary, beware she will dodge ur cc once she gets enough attack speed and movement speed. play with ur support and cc kalista. dont 1v2.”
xTheUnlimited says “I think she is considered as a pretty easy matchup. You got a way bigger range than her so if you dont lose the lane really hard, she won't be a threat. ”
xTheUnlimited says “Has a strong laning phase and even poke damage through her E. You should get an aggressive support against her tho to all in her and dont let her get fed. ”
B34STLYG4M3R says “Kalista is a pain due to all the extra damage from her Rend. Her range is the same as yours, however, she stomps nearly every single lane in the laning phase. Avoid trading in lane. Play around your stealth in the mid game to fight her. ”
qasddsa says “Average ADC right now, since the marksmen changes didn't affect her too much. She has a weak early game and a much smaller range than you, so you need to abuse that as much as possible. In fights, you cannot let her stack Rend spears freely on you; dodge her Q spear so she cannot get a free stack. You easily outdamage her mid-late game.”
weinerman says “hah, pathetic, i mean you can say that her jumps give her more mobility than ur passive and her e is impossible to predict with spell shield and her ult works really well against you if you ult to escape. but you're completely totally and utterly wrong, kalista never wins.”
satancurls says “Kalista tem um grande potencial dependendo do seu suporte, então é algo mais situacional. De qualquer forma não é tão difícil jogar contra, tenha paciência e tente conseguir alguma vantagem sobre ela.”
Seigemaster035 says “You shit on her late, early shes pretty strong though, so make sure you take trades where she doesn't get too many passive stacks in you to rend.”
Tips Against Kalista in Top Lane Tips Provided by MOBAFire Guide Authors
Sovereign Kitten says “Kalista is more about (AA)ing, while passively kiting. You can blind her (AA), but she can keep up with you, while also preventing your stealth either through her (Q)/(R) CC, while she finishes you off by rending her spears. Keep your distance from her, and try to avoid her (Q) spears. Place some shrooms down in the lane an bushes to hinder her kiting potential, as it makes it easier to run away. She is, however, extremely squishy, so long as you don't get into a position where she is kiting you into oblivion, or is simply split pushing or alone nowhere near her tethered ally which grants her a lot of bonuses.
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MarkFromSingedMains says “Can easily out-kite you but your W cancels her passive. Recently Kalista has been a monster top laner. I feel sorry for you if you have to lane it.”
Phrxshn says “Will have to make short trades against Kalista especially if she builds Blade of the Ruined King. This match-up will have to be reliant on your Mega Adhesive placement. Kalista will be constantly dashing if she auto-attacks due to Martial Pose(Passive). Avoid letting her stack her Pierce(Q) debuff by making short trades. (Recommended Items: Rylai's Scepter, Deadman's Plate, Plated Steelcaps) (Mega Adhesive stops her Martial Pose) (Fling overrides Martial Pose) (Sustained 1v1 Trades: Kalista) (Outscaling Edge: Even)”
Alan234 says “Any rune is fine. Due to her being an ADC i recommend getting 3 points in q (aery is fine)
Most kalistas that you will face are not good and will not use their champ correctly and beat you. So just Q her/dodge her Q and be careful of her e resets on minions. You should win all ins with ignite and shrooms in the wave. Call you jgl and her lane is doomed”
Phrxshn says “Will have to make short trades against Kalista especially if she builds Blade of the Ruined King. This match-up will have to be reliant on your Primal Howl placement. Kalista will be constantly dashing if she auto-attacks due to Martial Pose(Passive). Avoid letting her stack her Pierce(Q) debuff by making short trades. (Recommended Items: Deadman's Plate, Plated Steelcaps) (Sustained 1v1 Trades: Kalista) (Outscaling Edge: Warwick)”
Phrxshn says “Will have to make short trades against Kalista especially if she builds Blade of the Ruined King. This match-up will have to be reliant on your Seismic Shard and Ground Slam usage. Kalista will be constantly dashing if she auto-attacks due to Martial Pose(Passive). Avoid letting her stack her Pierce(Q) debuff by making short trades. (Recommended Items: Deadman's Plate, Plated Steelcaps) (Sustained 1v1 Trades: Kalista) (Outscaling Edge: Malphite)”
Phrxshn says “Will have to make short trades against Kalista especially if she builds Blade of the Ruined King. This match-up will have to be reliant on your Chomp and Pillar of Ice. Kalista will be constantly dashing if she auto-attacks due to Martial Pose(Passive). Avoid letting her stack her Pierce(Q) debuff by making short trades. (Recommended Items: Bramble Vest, Deadman's Plate, Plated Steelcaps) (Sustained 1v1 Trades: Trundle) (Outscaling Edge: Even)”
StrikeX114 says “Her primary threat to you throughout all engages is Rend (E), as it can deal grievous amounts of damage at all stages of the game. Only engage her with your passive available if possible, as she otherwise greatly outdamages and outranges you.”
Phrxshn says “Will have to make short trades against Kalista especially if she builds Blade of the Ruined King. This match-up will have to be reliant on your Facebreaker and The Show Stopper. Kalista will be constantly dashing if she auto-attacks due to Martial Pose(Passive). Avoid letting her stack her Pierce(Q) debuff by making short trades. (Recommended Items: Bramble Vest, Deadman's Plate, Plated Steelcaps) (Sustained 1v1 Trades: Even) (Outscaling Edge: Even)”
Phrxshn says “Will have to make short trades against Kalista especially if she builds Blade of the Ruined King. This match-up will have to be reliant on your Infected Cleaver placement. Kalista will be constantly dashing if she auto-attacks due to Martial Pose(Passive). Avoid letting her stack her Pierce(Q) debuff by making short trades. (Recommended Items: Bramble Vest, Deadman's Plate, Plated Steelcaps) (Sustained 1v1 Trades: Kalista) (Outscaling Edge: Even)”
ERNESTSAURUS says “FLEET FOOTWORK / SPELLBOOK SETUP - DORANS SHIELD / 3 REJUVENATION BEADS + POT =
Kalista is a pick that got into the Top lane meta since IG TheShy popularized it, she is really annoying to deal with as Nasus since she can deal a lot of damage with her E early on and can kite Nasus super efficiently with her passive, the downsite for her is that for her to kite you, she needs to autoattack a lot, and Nasus Wither is an autoattack debuff so it will make harder for her alling you and she also isn't the best solo laner as her R will be useless without an ally to use it. As for laning phase tips just look to farm until you get your Trinity Force + Boots spyke and then look to all in her, be careful of her jungler since they can 2v1 you really well specially with Kalista R. Later on to the game, look to setup a Splitpush situation where she will ask for help since she can't solo match you and then look to outrotate her and her ally into a favourable 5v3 teamfight situation. Remember you can stack her centinel with Q.”
Viola Boss says “She can sometimes get some harass, but it's almost impossible for her to kill you. Just use your e to stun her and she has no way of getting away”
Grayified says “Lethal Tempo Runes and Build. Ghost + Flash or Ignite + Flash. Long sword refillable potion start. Kalista can stack up a lot of damage on you with her spears to burst you at once. In the early game they don't do as much damage so if you can build up fury without taking too much damage level one, you can look for an early all in with your ghost to atleast burn her flash and take control of the lane. If you misplay a trade though and you get behind, look to soak experience and get whatever farm you can get. You outscale her in the 1v1 with tier two boots + essence reaver. Just make sure when you get your spike in items that you all in with your summoners up. In the mid-late game splitpush Kalista will have to call an ally to match against you, so just look to push in and outrotate the two stopping you and flank their team with a man advantage. And if Kalista tries to hold the turret by herself you can just dive her.”
Nabura says “Very akin to the Jayce matchup, just farm up under tower and try to get xp. You will need executioners as they usually have a decent amount of lifesteal in their builds.”
EntxRecoil says “Lethal Tempo Runes and Build. Ghost + Flash or Ignite + Flash. Long sword refillable potion start. Kalista can stack up a lot of damage on you with her spears to burst you at once. In the early game they don't do as much damage so if you can build up fury without taking too much damage level one, you can look for an early all in with your ghost to atleast burn her flash and take control of the lane. If you misplay a trade though and you get behind, look to soak experience and get whatever farm you can get. You outscale her in the 1v1 with tier two boots + essence reaver. Just make sure when you get your spike in items that you all in with your summoners up. In the mid-late game splitpush Kalista will have to call an ally to match against you, so just look to push in and outrotate the two stopping you and flank their team with a man advantage. And if Kalista tries to hold the turret by herself you can just dive her.”
Ravenborne says “You can't kill her before Level 3. Nimbus Cloak is mandatory in this matchup. Let her push you in pre 3 and as soon as you hit 3 just ghost on her and get an automatic kill. Do not fight her near turret as you are easy to gank when she has Ult and a CC Jungler. She can also fight you when her Blade Of The Ruined King is done. Until then, you have the upper hand. Just do not let her poke you too much.”
Gangplank_Main1 says “Runes: Grasp, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Biscuits, Time Warp Tonic, Double Adaptive, Armor.
Start of lane passive auto minion for grasp, dont leash.
What to get on first back: Dorans blade
Just like the lucian matchup every jungler is basically forced to play around this lane. This is by far one of gangplanks hardest counters because kalista can reposition herself every auto, making it really hard to land barrels on her. What kalista can do if you were to walk up to farm is auto a minion and stack it with her passive then auto you kill that minion with her e to reset e then just spear you down and kill you. This is a matchup that you need tabis and phage early on. What you can do is have the wave setup where kalista has to over commit to farm, so when your jungler comes you can try to land a barrel and your jungler can kill her. Outside the laning phase kalista just beats you in the split and if you were to teamfight you would be so behind in resources it’ll be dreadful. To be honest i would just dodge this matchup. It’s that bad
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gsaeyx says “What build you go doesn't matter you lose anyways. "Haha me throw spear and me kite out of your q" disgusting champion but who even plays her anyways nowadays, if you find her in one of your matches just dodge.”
Kingarthur720 says “Lethal Tempo Runes and Build. Ghost + Flash or Ignite + Flash. Long sword refillable potion start. Kalista can stack up a lot of damage on you with her spears to burst you at once. In the early game they don't do as much damage so if you can build up fury without taking too much damage level one, you can look for an early all in with your ghost to atleast burn her flash and take control of the lane. If you misplay a trade though and you get behind, look to soak experience and get whatever farm you can get. You outscale her in the 1v1 with tier two boots + essence reaver. Just make sure when you get your spike in items that you all in with your summoners up. In the mid-late game splitpush Kalista will have to call an ally to match against you, so just look to push in and outrotate the two stopping you and flank their team with a man advantage. And if Kalista tries to hold the turret by herself you can just dive her.”
TentiTiger11 says “Theshy created a monster. A great kalista top will destroy you. I haven't encountered one, but they are very hard to fight as Garen with the high range and damage. Maybe get a gank if they are a huge problem.”
Discord Rengar Mains says “ADC lane, but can be a bit harder than most because of her kiting potential. The thing about kalista top is that since her damage is stupidly insane because of how rend works, if you eat too much free poke she will just kill you in two to three rotations while kiting you to oblivion. Fortunately, you have your passive, which allows you to get the jump on her whenever needed and bring her down before she can do anything about it. Respect her first 3 levels, since she is at her strongest there when compared to you (because you do not have access to all your abilities, and therefore no easy emp spells), but after that she start falling down because her ult needs someone else to be with her and so does her W passive, which makes her lose a fair chunk of damage she would otherwise have. Don't lose control over the bushes or the wave or the lane will go downhill since she will just poke you to death every time you try to cc. Be careful of her summs as well, she might bring flash + exhaust and completely fuck you over during an all-in.
Ignite or TP both work, but the former evens out the pressure by a lot. Any runeset works, it honestly depends on what you want to do during the game.”
Circas says “Rare you will see this but some people play it. Only difficult thing is hitting Flawless Duet (E) but her attack speed and move speed is very low early so it shouldn't be too difficult.
This is what we call a "Free LP" lane because anytime you go in on her she just dies.
Careful when she is 6 though since she can through a curve ball at you and by curve ball I mean she will grab her jungler by the neck and launch them at your face.
If you see a Kalista top they are either a smurf, duo with a jungler who will try to camp them, or they are just a psychopath thinking they can pull it off. You win this match up hard.”
Braddik says “Wtf this is meta now? Her autos will keep her naturally kiting away making it impossible to stick onto her. She does insane damage and by the time you jump on her you're half hp. Dodge this one”
Trial_By_Barrel says “Almost all ranged champion are a hard match up for Gangplank. Now Kalista is a new pick in top and she's an effective one too. She can destroy your barrels with her autos and can bounce away from them. She also can out range you. But if you can land some barrels and poke then you may be able to kill her because she's an ADC meaning she's very squishy.”
Pedrokis says “Vou falar que eu nunca joguei essa matchup no top, mas já vi muitos replays e nossa senhora, que boneco chato. / Vai ser muito difícil você acertar seus Qs e o seu W nela, visto que ela vai ficar só te kitando durante a troca inteira. / Usa a runa "Vs AD Chatos" e TP, começa com Escudo de Doran, rusha Tabi e Colete Espinhoso e chama seu jungler pra deixar ela com pouca vantagem. / Sem muitas kills, vai ficar meio difícil pra ela crescer demais, então joga recuado e farmando o que der. Se ela não tiver grande, você até consegue ganhar as trocas.”
RainbowNova says “Kalista's Q and E and R, so basically her entire kit, are annoying. They don't trigger your Thornmail and do tons of damage, especially with BoRK.”
Trixelkour says “She maybe weak atm, but she will wipe the floor with you if the fights goes on for too long. Get Righteous Glory early then Thornmail after Liandry's/Rylai's. Too mobile to harass with E. Take Dark Harvest to do enough damage to her. ”
CaioOP1985 says “Wither screws her passive and unless she has her partner around she has no hard CC. Slow her down, get close and enjoy her cold corpse.”
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