Shen vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Shen
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Shen vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Shen vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Shen
Tips for Playing as Shen against Kalista
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
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.
Shen vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Shen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several important Shen against Kalista matchup stats that may help you understand the distinctions between the pair. Shen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Shen often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Kalista. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shen and Kalista
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Who is Better, Shen or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shen usually fairs equally well when taking on Kalista, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Shen makes an ok counter for Kalista.
While Shen does have a higher win rate compared to Kalista, when they face off with one another, Shen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Shen into Kalista.
Moreover, Shen also has a great amount of CC and other utility, 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 is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shen vs Kalista matchups, Shen is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Shen is a decent counter to Kalista. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Shen against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shen typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Shen versus Kalista build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Kalista than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 50.6% battling Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Kalista as Shen, Shen players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Shen vs Kalista counters, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kalista as Shen are shown for every ranked division. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.