Rek'Sai vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Rek'Sai
based on 226 Rek'Sai vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Kalista
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several critical Rek'Sai against Kalista counter stats that can help us realize the differences between the pair. Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Rek'Sai typically has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Kalista. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Kalista
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Kalista?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rek'Sai usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kalista, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Rek'Sai makes an ok counter to Kalista.
While Rek'Sai does have a higher win rate than Kalista, when facing one another, Rek'Sai also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Rek'Sai into Kalista.
Additionally, Rek'Sai also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai vs Kalista matchups, Rek'Sai is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Rek'Sai is a decent counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Rek'Sai against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rek'Sai to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai usually gets a lot less CS relative to Kalista. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Rek'Sai versus Kalista build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Kalista than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Rek'Sai boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when playing against Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Kalista as Rek'Sai, Rek'Sai players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Rek'Sai vs Kalista counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.4% winrate overall.
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