Ahri vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Ahri
based on 969 Ahri vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Kalista
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Advice to Win Against Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Ahri vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Ahri in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some influential Ahri versus Kalista matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Ahri normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than Kalista. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ahri and Kalista
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Who is Better, Ahri or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ahri usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Ahri does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Ahri into Kalista.
Moreover, Ahri has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Kalista matchups, Ahri is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Ahri is an above average counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ahri in order to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Kalista. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Ahri versus Kalista build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when facing Kalista than with most other common builds. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 52.1% battling Kalista with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Kalista as Ahri, Ahri players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Ahri vs Kalista battles, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
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