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.
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
The Kalista Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kalista sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Darius. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Darius helps Kalista perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kalista tries to synergize with Darius, she gets a small decrease in her complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Darius does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played alongside Darius on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Darius. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Darius.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Darius on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Darius does a decent job of covering Kalista in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Kalista that will no matter what be her top teammate. However, overall, Darius is a not very good teammate for Kalista. By playing on the same side as Kalista, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 46.2%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Kalista and Darius that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Darius has a much lower diffuclty than Kalista. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Darius allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kalista and Darius together, you will not be granting your other teammates much crowd control. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Darius ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Kalista in order to synergize with Darius during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Kalista and Darius synergy build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Darius than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kalista had an average win rate of 46.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Darius with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Kalista players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.2% winrate overall.
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