Nami vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Nami
based on 1,005 Nami vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Kalista
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Nami in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some critical Nami vs. Kalista matchup statistics that may help you grasp the distinctions between the two. Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Nami normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Kalista. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nami and Kalista
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Who is Better, Nami or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nami usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 54.3% win rate. As a result, Nami makes a great counter to Kalista.
While Nami does have a much higher win rate compared to Kalista, when they face off with one another, Nami also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nami into Kalista.
Additionally, Nami has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nami vs Kalista matchups, Nami is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nami is a great counter for Kalista. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nami against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nami to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami most often racks up a lot less CS relative to Kalista. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nami versus Kalista build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Kalista than with many other common builds. In fact, Nami had an average winrate of 54.3% when countering Kalista with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Kalista as Nami, Nami players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Nami vs Kalista counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.3% winrate overall.
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