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.
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
The Kalista Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shaco helps Kalista perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is paired with Shaco, she sees a little increase in her full damage output. This change may indicate that Shaco helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played with Shaco 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 alongside Shaco.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Shaco on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Kalista in teamfights.
There is no top companion for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her top ally. Yet, overall, Shaco is a decent companion for Kalista. By being on the same side as Kalista, he increases their win rate by 1.5% to 48.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Kalista and Shaco that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Shaco has a greater difficulty than Kalista. That means you must be careful when enlisting Shaco comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kalista and Shaco together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Shaco ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Kalista in order to pair well with Shaco during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Kalista and Shaco synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Kalista used at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Shaco than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 48.9% helping carry Shaco with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Kalista and Shaco pairings, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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