Ziggs vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Ziggs
based on 452 Ziggs vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Kalista
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Ziggs in LoL
The stats shown here feature several important Ziggs versus Kalista counter stats that may help you explain the distinctions between the two. Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Ziggs typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Kalista. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ziggs and Kalista
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ziggs usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kalista, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Ziggs makes an ok counter for Kalista.
While Ziggs does have a higher win rate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Ziggs also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Ziggs into Kalista.
Furthermore, Ziggs also has some amount of utility and CC, 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 is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Kalista matchups, Ziggs is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ziggs is a decent counter to Kalista. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Ziggs against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Kalista. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They 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 have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Ziggs versus Kalista build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Kalista than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when countering Kalista with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Kalista as Ziggs, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Ziggs vs Kalista counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
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