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.
Dodging Arctic Assault and Glacial Prison can give you a huge advantage.
Focus on avoiding the second swing of Winter's Wrath which carries the brunt of the damage.
Melee enemies can also stack Frost for Sejuani, be very careful around them.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some strategic Kalista against Sejuani counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sejuani’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Sejuani. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kalista often has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Sejuani. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually wins when taking on Sejuani, with a 52.8% win rate. Therefore, Kalista makes a good counter for Sejuani.
While Kalista does have a higher winrate than Sejuani, when facing one another, Kalista also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Kalista into Sejuanias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kalista also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sejuani. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Sejuani matchups, Kalista is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kalista is an above average counter to Sejuani. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kalista against Sejuani.
To learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to counter Sejuani during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista typically picks up much more CS compared to Sejuani. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Kalista versus Sejuani build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Sejuani than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 52.8% battling Sejuani with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Sejuani 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 picked for Kalista vs Sejuani battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.8% winrate overall.
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