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.
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
The Kalista Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Soraka helps Kalista perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista tries to synergize with Soraka, she observes a little increase in her full damage output. This may demonstrate that Soraka supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played with Soraka on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Soraka. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Soraka.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Soraka on the same team, she typically receives significantly more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Soraka does a poor job of protecting Kalista during team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Kalista that will no matter what be her top synergy. However, Soraka is a relatively poor companion for Kalista. By locking into the same team as Kalista, she drops their win rate by -2.3% to 45.1%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Kalista and Soraka that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Soraka has a much lower diffuclty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be cautious when finding Soraka teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kalista and Soraka together, you may not be granting your other teammates much protection for burst damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Soraka ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to work well with Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Kalista and Soraka synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista used at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Soraka than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 45.1% helping carry Soraka with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating 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 that we analyzed for Kalista and Soraka pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.1% winrate overall.
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