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 stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several valuable Yuumi vs. Kalista matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences between these two champions. For instance, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, showing that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kalista. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Yuumi often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Kalista. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when taking on Kalista, with a 45.8% win rate. Thus, Yuumi makes a bad counter to Kalista.
While Yuumi does have a much lower winrate than Kalista, when on opposite teams, Yuumi also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Yuumi into Kalista.
Moreover, Yuumi has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Kalista matchups, Kalista is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Yuumi is a terribly counter for Kalista. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Yuumi against Kalista.
If you would like to truly master Yuumi in order 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 tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi often racks up a lot less CS compared to Kalista. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Yuumi versus Kalista build consist of Mikael's Blessing, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Yuumi combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Kalista than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yuumi boasted an average win rate of 45.8% battling Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Kalista as Yuumi, Yuumi players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Yuumi vs Kalista face-offs, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.8% win rate overall.
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