Xerath vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Xerath
based on 1,215 Xerath vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xerath vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Xerath vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Xerath
Tips for Playing as Xerath against Kalista
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Xerath in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several valuable Xerath versus Kalista matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kalista. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Xerath usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Kalista. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xerath and Kalista
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Who is Better, Xerath or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Xerath usually fairs equally well when playing against Kalista, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Xerath makes an ok counter for Kalista.
While Xerath does have a lower win rate compared to Kalista, when they face off with one another, Xerath also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Xerath into Kalistaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Xerath also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Kalista matchups, Kalista is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Xerath is a somewhat poor counter for Kalista. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Xerath against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xerath to counter Kalista during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath most often gets less CS compared to Kalista. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Xerath versus Kalista build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Kalista than with most other common builds. In fact, Xerath had an average winrate of 49.8% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Kalista as Xerath, Xerath players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Xerath vs Kalista matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.8% winrate overall.
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