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.
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
The stats shown on this page underscore some vital Kalista against Rengar counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rengar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Rengar..
Kalista normally has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Rengar. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually loses when trying to fight Rengar, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Kalista makes a poor counter to Rengar.
While Kalista does have a lower winrate compared to Rengar, when they face off with one another, Kalista also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kalista into Rengaras 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 Rengar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Rengar matchups, Rengar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kalista is a bad counter for Rengar. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kalista against Rengar.
To truly master Kalista in order to counter Rengar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista usually picks up much more CS relative to Rengar. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Kalista versus Rengar 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 a lot better countering Rengar than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 46.6% when playing against Rengar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Rengar 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 runes players picked for Kalista vs Rengar matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
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