Brand vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Brand
based on 1,976 Brand vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Kalista
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several significant Brand vs. Kalista counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Brand normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Kalista
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Who is Better, Brand or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 54.8% win rate. Thus, Brand makes a great counter to Kalista.
While Brand does have a much higher winrate compared to Kalista, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Brand into Kalista.
Additionally, Brand has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Kalista matchups, Brand is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Brand is a great counter for Kalista. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Brand against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Brand in order to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand on average accumulates less CS compared to Kalista. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Brand versus Kalista build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Kalista than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 54.8% battling Kalista with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Kalista as Brand, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Brand vs Kalista LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.8% winrate overall.
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