Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
The Cassiopeia Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Cassiopeia sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kalista. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kalista helps Cassiopeia perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cassiopeia is paired with Kalista, she gets a little decrease in her total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Kalista does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Cassiopeia is played alongside Kalista on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kalista.
Additionally, when Cassiopeia plays with Kalista on the same team, she often receives less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Kalista does a decent job of covering Cassiopeia in teamfights.
There is no top companion for Cassiopeia that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Kalista is a very typical teammate for Cassiopeia. By locking into the same team as Cassiopeia, she raises their win rate by 0.5% to 50.8%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Cassiopeia and Kalista that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Kalista has a much lower diffuclty than Cassiopeia. That means Cassiopeia players don't need to be very careful when finding Kalista comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Cassiopeia players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Cassiopeia and Kalista together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of engage potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Kalista ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Cassiopeia to pair well with Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Cassiopeia and Kalista synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Rod of Ages. When Cassiopeia used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Kalista than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Cassiopeia had an average win rate of 50.8% when playing alongside Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Cassiopeia players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.8% win rate overall.
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