Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Be careful when casting immobilizing disables on Fiora. If her Riposte is available, she can turn their power against you.
Duelist's Dance shows you where Fiora will try to attack from, so be ready to punish her when she tries.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several important Kalista against Fiora matchup stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Fiora’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Fiora..
Kalista usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Fiora. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually loses when taking on Fiora, with a 45.5% win rate. Therefore, Kalista makes a bad counter to Fiora.
While Kalista does have a much lower winrate than Fiora, when on opposite teams, Kalista also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Kalista into Fioraas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kalista also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Fiora. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Fiora matchups, Fiora is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kalista is a garbage counter to Fiora. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kalista against Fiora.
To truly master Kalista in order to counter Fiora 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 mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Fiora. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have 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, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Kalista versus Fiora build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Fiora than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 45.5% battling Fiora with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Fiora as Kalista, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Kalista vs Fiora face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Fiora as Kalista are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.