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 stats provided here show several critical Volibear vs. Kalista matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista..
Volibear typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Kalista. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Volibear usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 51.7% win rate. Thus, Volibear makes a good counter for Kalista.
While Volibear does have a higher win rate than Kalista, when on opposite teams, Volibear also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Volibear into Kalista.
Moreover, Volibear has some 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 is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Volibear vs Kalista matchups, Volibear is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Volibear is a decent counter to Kalista. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Volibear against Kalista.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Volibear 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 tips and tricks for 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.
Volibear often racks up a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Volibear versus Kalista build include Nashor's Tooth, Hullbreaker, and Riftmaker. When Volibear combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Kalista than with many other common builds. In fact, Volibear boasted an average win rate of 51.7% battling Kalista with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Kalista as Volibear, Volibear players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Volibear vs Kalista counters, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.7% win rate overall.
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