Kalista with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Kalista and Heimerdinger
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Kalista Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Heimerdinger
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.
Advice to Understand How Heimerdinger Will Play
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Kalista Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Heimerdinger helps Kalista perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista tries to synergize with Heimerdinger, she observes a moderate decrease in her full damage dealt. This change may signal that Heimerdinger does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played together with Heimerdinger 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 synergisticly with Heimerdinger.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Heimerdinger on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Heimerdinger does a decent job of protecting Kalista during teamfights.
Synergies between Kalista and Heimerdinger
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no perfect ally for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. However, overall, Heimerdinger is a very typical teammate for Kalista. By being on the same side as Kalista, he drops their win rate by -0.9% to 46.5%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Kalista and Heimerdinger that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a greater difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players must be careful when arranging Heimerdinger teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Kalista players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Kalista and Heimerdinger together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Heimerdinger teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kalista to synergize with Heimerdinger during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Kalista and Heimerdinger synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Heimerdinger than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kalista had an average win rate of 46.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip 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 used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.5% winrate overall.
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