Kalista vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Kalista
based on 932 Kalista vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kalista vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against Irelia
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.
Advice to Win Against Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Kalista vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Kalista in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some vital Kalista vs. Irelia counter stats that can help us understand the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Irelia..
Kalista often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Irelia. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kalista and Irelia
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Who is Better, Kalista or Irelia?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually loses when trying to fight Irelia, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Kalista makes a bad counter for Irelia.
While Kalista does have a lower winrate compared to Irelia, when they face off with one another, Kalista also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Kalista into Ireliaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kalista has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kalista is a bad counter to Irelia. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kalista against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kalista to counter Irelia 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Irelia. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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 have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Kalista versus Irelia build include Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Irelia than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 47.0% when countering Irelia with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Irelia as Kalista, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kalista vs Irelia face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
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