Katarina vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Katarina
based on 1,180 Katarina vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Kalista
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Katarina vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several important Katarina against Kalista counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Katarina normally has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Kalista
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Who is Better, Katarina or Kalista?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kalista, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes an ok counter to Kalista.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Kalistaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Kalista matchups, Kalista is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Kalista. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina often gets a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Katarina versus Kalista build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Kalista than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 49.3% battling Kalista with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Kalista as Katarina, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Katarina vs Kalista counters, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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