Melee allies can stack Frost for your Permafrost, keep an eye on who they are attacking.
Save Glacial Prison for encounters where you have teammates present to take advantage of it.
Use Arctic Assault to escape bad situations, interupt channeled spells or chase runners.
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 shown here clarify several influential Sejuani against Kalista matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. Sejuani’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sejuani may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kalista. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Sejuani usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sejuani usually loses when facing off against Kalista, with a 47.2% win rate. As a result, Sejuani makes a poor counter to Kalista.
While Sejuani does have a lower win rate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Sejuani also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Sejuani into Kalista.
Moreover, Sejuani also has a good 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 isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sejuani vs Kalista matchups, Kalista is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Sejuani is a trash counter for Kalista. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Sejuani against Kalista.
To truly master Sejuani to counter Kalista during both the early game 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 stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sejuani often picks up a lot less CS as Kalista. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Sejuani versus Kalista build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Sejuani incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better countering Kalista than with many other common builds. In fact, Sejuani boasted an average winrate of 47.2% when countering Kalista with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Kalista as Sejuani, Sejuani players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Sejuani vs Kalista face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.2% winrate overall.
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