Illaoi vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Illaoi
based on 629 Illaoi vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Kalista
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Illaoi in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several vital Illaoi against Kalista matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences between the pair. Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Illaoi usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, 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 Illaoi and Kalista
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when playing against Kalista, with a 49.8% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes an ok counter to Kalista.
While Illaoi does have a lower winrate than Kalista, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Kalista.
Furthermore, Illaoi has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Kalista matchups, Kalista is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a somewhat poor counter for Kalista. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They 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, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Illaoi versus Kalista build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Kalista than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 49.8% when playing against Kalista with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Kalista as Illaoi, Illaoi players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Illaoi vs Kalista matchups, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
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