Sylas vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Sylas
based on 1,120 Sylas vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Kalista
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Sylas in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some strategic Sylas versus Kalista counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista..
Sylas typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Kalista
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Who is Better, Sylas or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sylas usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Kalista, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Sylas makes an ok counter to Kalista.
While Sylas does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when facing one another, Sylas also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Sylas into Kalista.
Furthermore, Sylas also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Kalista matchups, Kalista is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Sylas is a decent counter to Kalista. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Sylas against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas in order to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Sylas versus Kalista build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Kalista than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 50.0% when playing against Kalista with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Kalista as Sylas, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Sylas vs Kalista LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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