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.
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several valuable Lillia versus Kalista matchup stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, Lillia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Lillia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista..
Lillia normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Kalista. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lillia usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 55.6% win rate. As a result, Lillia makes a fantastic counter to Kalista.
While Lillia does have a much higher winrate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Lillia also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Lillia into Kalistaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Lillia has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lillia vs Kalista matchups, Lillia is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Lillia is a great counter for Kalista. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lillia against Kalista.
If you would like to truly master Lillia in order to counter Kalista during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lillia most often picks up a lot less CS relative to Kalista. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They 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, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Lillia versus Kalista build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Lillia bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Kalista than with most other common item sets. In fact, Lillia boasted an average win rate of 55.6% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Kalista as Lillia, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Lillia vs Kalista face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 55.6% win rate overall.
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