Thresh vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Thresh
based on 1,317 Thresh vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Kalista
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Thresh in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some vital Thresh against Kalista counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kalista. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Thresh often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Kalista
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Who is Better, Thresh or Kalista?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Kalista, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes an ok counter for Kalista.
While Thresh does have a higher winrate than Kalista, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Kalistaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Kalista matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Thresh is a decent counter to Kalista. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Thresh to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh typically racks up a lot less CS relative to Kalista. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Thresh versus Kalista build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Kalista than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 50.1% battling Kalista with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Kalista as Thresh, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Thresh vs Kalista counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
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