If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
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.
The stats provided here emphasize some significant Evelynn vs. Kalista counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between the pair. Evelynn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Evelynn may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Evelynn normally has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Kalista. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Evelynn usually wins when playing against Kalista, with a 54.2% win rate. Thus, Evelynn makes a great counter for Kalista.
While Evelynn does have a much higher winrate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Evelynn also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Evelynn into Kalistaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Evelynn also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Evelynn vs Kalista matchups, Evelynn is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Evelynn is a great counter to Kalista. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Evelynn against Kalista.
If you would like to truly master Evelynn in order to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Evelynn often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Kalista. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Evelynn versus Kalista build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Evelynn incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Kalista than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Evelynn boasted an average win rate of 54.2% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Kalista as Evelynn, Evelynn players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Evelynn vs Kalista counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kalista as Evelynn are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.