Kalista with Neeko
How to Synergize Kalista and Neeko
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Kalista Neeko Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Neeko Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Neeko
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Neeko
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 Neeko Will Play
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
Kalista Neeko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Neeko as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista Neeko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Neeko, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Neeko. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Neeko helps Kalista perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kalista is an ally to Neeko, she sees a little drop in her full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Neeko does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played alongside Neeko on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Neeko. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Neeko.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Neeko on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Neeko does a poor job of protecting Kalista during teamfights.
Synergies between Kalista and Neeko
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Neeko?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Neeko is a not very good teammate for Kalista. By being on the same side as Kalista, she decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 45.6%. This demonstrates that there is a bad synergy between Kalista and Neeko that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Neeko has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be very careful when lining up Neeko comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Kalista and Neeko together, you may not be providing your side very much engage potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Neeko ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kalista in order to synergize with Neeko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Kalista and Neeko synergy build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista used at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Neeko than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 45.6% helping carry Neeko with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you 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 builds players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Neeko with Kalista are given for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.