Kalista with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Kalista and Kai'Sa
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Kalista Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Kalista Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Kalista Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kai'Sa helps Kalista perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kalista tries to synergize with Kai'Sa, she sees a small increase in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Kai'Sa provides cover for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played together with Kai'Sa 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 synergisticly with Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, she often takes more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Kai'Sa does a poor job of protecting Kalista in teamfights.
Synergies between Kalista and Kai'Sa
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no perfect companion for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. However, overall, Kai'Sa is a terrible companion for Kalista. By playing on the same side as Kalista, she drops their win rate by -8.6% to 38.8%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Kalista and Kai'Sa that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kai'Sa teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Kalista and Kai'Sa together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of crowd control. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Kai'Sa ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to work well with Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Kalista and Kai'Sa synergy build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista combined at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Kai'Sa than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 38.8% helping carry Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Kalista players should use 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 runes players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 38.8% winrate overall.
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