Kalista vs Morgana
How to Beat Morgana as Kalista
based on 1,671 Kalista vs Morgana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kalista vs Morgana Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs Morgana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Morgana as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against Morgana
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 Morgana
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
Kalista vs Morgana Counter Stats
How to Counter Morgana with Kalista in LoL
The stats provided here show several important Kalista against Morgana matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Morgana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Morgana. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Kalista normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives more damage than Morgana. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kalista and Morgana
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Who is Better, Kalista or Morgana?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kalista usually loses when trying to fight Morgana, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Kalista makes a bad counter for Morgana.
While Kalista does have a lower winrate compared to Morgana, when they face off with one another, Kalista also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kalista into Morganaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kalista has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Morgana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Morgana matchups, Morgana is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Kalista is a somewhat poor counter to Morgana. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kalista against Morgana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kalista in order to counter Morgana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista most often racks up much more CS as Morgana. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Kalista versus Morgana build consist of Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Kalista combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Morgana than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when playing against Morgana with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Morgana as Kalista, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Kalista vs Morgana battles, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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