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.
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
The Kalista Jax synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jax, 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 Jax. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Jax helps Kalista perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista plays on the same team as Jax, she sees a small decrease in her total damage output. This may indicate that Jax doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played together with Jax on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Jax. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Jax.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Jax on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Jax does a decent job of covering Kalista during teamfights.
There is no ideal synergy for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. However, overall, Jax is a good companion for Kalista. By playing on the same side as Kalista, he increases their win rate by 2.0% to 49.4%. This signals that there is a somewhat important synergy between Kalista and Jax that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Jax has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Jax allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, Kalista players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Kalista and Jax together, you may not be granting your team a lot of utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Jax ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to synergize with Jax during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Kalista and Jax synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Jax than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kalista had an average winrate of 49.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Jax with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating 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. Of all the rune builds players chose for Kalista and Jax pairings, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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