Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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 Janna 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, Janna sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kalista. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kalista helps Janna perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Janna plays on the same team as Kalista, she observes a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Kalista helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Janna is played together with Kalista on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kalista.
Additionally, when Janna plays with Kalista on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Kalista does a decent job of protecting Janna in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Janna that will no matter what be her best ally. However, Kalista is a very bad teammate for Janna. By playing on the same side as Janna, she lowers their win rate by -3.9% to 47.1%. This proves that there is a terrible synergy between Janna and Kalista that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kalista has a lower difficulty than Janna. That means Janna players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Kalista teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Janna and Kalista together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of cover. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Kalista ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Janna in order to pair well with Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Janna and Kalista synergy build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna included at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Kalista than with many other common builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 47.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Kalista with Janna are presented for every ranked division. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.