Kindred vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Kindred
based on 695 Kindred vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Kalista
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Kindred in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several valuable Kindred versus Kalista counter statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista..
Kindred normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their enemy does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kindred and Kalista
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Who is Better, Kindred or Kalista?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kindred usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 56.0% win rate. Thus, Kindred makes a fantastic counter to Kalista.
While Kindred does have a much higher winrate compared to Kalista, when facing one another, Kindred also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less difficult champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Kindred into Kalista.
Furthermore, Kindred also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Kalista matchups, Kindred is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kindred is a great counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kindred against Kalista.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kindred
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kindred in order to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred most often picks up a lot less CS relative to Kalista. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Kindred versus Kalista build include Trinity Force, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred included at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better when facing Kalista than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kindred had an average win rate of 56.0% when countering Kalista with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Kalista as Kindred, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Kindred vs Kalista battles, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 56.0% winrate overall.
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