Poppy vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Poppy
based on 671 Poppy vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Poppy vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Poppy vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Poppy
Tips for Playing as Poppy against Kalista
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Poppy in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some critical Poppy versus Kalista counter statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kalista..
Poppy often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Poppy and Kalista
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Who is Better, Poppy or Kalista?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Poppy usually wins when playing against Kalista, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Poppy makes a good counter for Kalista.
While Poppy does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when they face off with one another, Poppy also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Poppy into Kalista.
Furthermore, Poppy also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Poppy vs Kalista matchups, Poppy is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Poppy is a decent counter for Kalista. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Poppy against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Poppy to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy on average picks up less CS relative to Kalista. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Poppy versus Kalista build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Kalista than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average winrate of 52.0% battling Kalista with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Kalista as Poppy, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Poppy vs Kalista counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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