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.
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
The Kalista Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Varus helps Kalista perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is an ally to Varus, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This may signal that Varus provides 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 Varus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Varus.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Varus on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Varus does a poor job of covering Kalista in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Kalista that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, overall, Varus is a relatively poor ally for Kalista. By playing on the same team as Kalista, he decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 45.5%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Kalista and Varus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be careful when enlisting Varus allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kalista and Varus together, you will not be granting your side a lot of crowd control. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Varus ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kalista to synergize with Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Kalista and Varus synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Varus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 45.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Varus with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating 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 runes we have analyed for Kalista and Varus pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.5% win rate overall.
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