Naafiri vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Naafiri
based on 451 Naafiri vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Naafiri vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Kalista
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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.
Naafiri vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Naafiri in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several significant Naafiri against Kalista counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista..
Naafiri typically has a similar longest kill spree as their foe does. Commonly, they takes a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Naafiri and Kalista
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Kalista?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually fairs equally well when playing against Kalista, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes an ok counter to Kalista.
While Naafiri does have a lower winrate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Naafiri also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Naafiri into Kalista.
Additionally, Naafiri also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Kalista matchups, Kalista is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Naafiri is a somewhat poor counter to Kalista. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Naafiri against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri usually gets a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Naafiri versus Kalista build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better vs Kalista than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 49.7% when countering Kalista with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Kalista as Naafiri, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Naafiri vs Kalista counters, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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