Elise vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Elise
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Elise vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Kalista
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Elise in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some significant Elise against Kalista counter stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Elise often has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. On average, she receives more damage than Kalista. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Elise and Kalista
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Who is Better, Elise or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Elise usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 53.1% win rate. Therefore, Elise makes a great counter for Kalista.
While Elise does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when facing one another, Elise also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Elise into Kalistaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Elise has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Elise vs Kalista matchups, Elise is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Elise is a great counter for Kalista. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Elise against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Elise 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 tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise typically picks up a lot less CS as Kalista. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Elise versus Kalista build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Kalista than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Elise had an average winrate of 53.1% battling Kalista with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Kalista as Elise, Elise players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Elise vs Kalista clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.1% win rate overall.
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