Why NO ONE Plays: Kalista | League of Legends

[@thewaifuoverheaven6298]

Ok you know what this series is making me play all these champions I mean you present them in such a way that I genuinely wana to try them which I never wanted before so u know what thank you you are doing a great job

[@VarsVerum]

Mission Accomplished! :D

[@haganenno]

yeah, i love kogmaw now haha

[@milkjug4237]

Yeah, he did the same to me with Kled and Heimerdinger. I already wanted to learn Kalista after seeing a huzzy video spectating a top kal player, though. Always found ADCs that weren't Jhin very boring.

[@haganenno]

@@milkjug4237 xayah is rly fun to me, i also love ezreal

[@TransVoiceCoach]

:(( I have 1.2 m on kalista, I started playing in s5 and picked up both kalista and azir, they both feel pretty replayable to me in terms of not getting bored when playing them, often times other chapions dont feel complex enough to be interesting to me whereas with these two champions it really feels like you have to work for the victories you get and if you snowball on kalista there is hardly anything more fun imo

[@DrStealthbug]

Reminder that Kalista partnering with a Volibear is effectively Annie.

[@דורקינן-ע7ה]

now i will have a new fear

[@justafish9618]

lmfao i never saw it

[@youri3.136]

Lol, i played voli jg yesterday and she linked me

[@BraveLilToasty]

Damn whoever this No One guy is he really do be playing lots of champs.

[@fenexgid3074]

Naughty naughty

[@sadcasterminion915]

Because getting exhausted on Kalista is 10x worse than on a normal carry.

[@VarsVerum]

Muh fingerz

[@lockariques]

or nasus slow... or any form of slows

[@itsgonnabeokay9341]

Thats why you take cleanse

[@sadcasterminion915]

@@itsgonnabeokay9341 or just don't play her

[@itsgonnabeokay9341]

@@sadcasterminion915 yes

[@erwinthedodo9205]

Me, who's a kalista main: "What do you mean nobody plays ;-;" Also me, the hard feeder: "aye, fair enough"

[@khaledowo9760]

dude i met a thresh main and i was like: let's duo? we faced Senna/Aphelios as Kalista/thresh and we cried all game long dude you don't know the outranging was so sad :/

[@rightangel8866]

@@khaledowo9760 well u just sucked that game , hard if I Hear so😂😂😂😂🤷‍♂️

[@ruris189]

@@khaledowo9760 doesnt kalista kinda counter aph tho? At least thats what i heard

[@stip2263]

@@ruris189 yep a lil

[@lokir2809]

No One Plays: Kalisat No One Plays:Heimer No One Plays: Teemo No One Plays: Poppy No One Plays: Yorick My name is: No One

[@VarsVerum]

Ladies and gentlemen... we got em'

[@teensugoi3567]

I'd like to be your siblings man uwu

[@damnyo1160]

Hello No One, my name is No One

[@carnivorze1052]

It's horrible to play Teemo when you main him because nobody but you play him but he has a 15% banrate

[@shuaib2281]

Yorick is just a creep at this point. He's not even a champion no more.

[@raphaelvandonasc7939]

You forgot to mention one of her most important problems: As soon as she gets slowed she is not a champion anymore. Due to her unique passive she not only loses mobility - she also loses attackspeed (since an attack is done inbetween dashes and dashes have a longer windup when slowed). As of right now almost every champion in the league either has a slow or builds an item that has a slow

[@maddog130]

Exhaust being a major killer too

[@KantHarmen88]

@@maddog130 or ashe....

[@lucicred7763]

TL;DR: Playing Kalista is a chore. As a Kalista main I can confirm that every ADC main wants to be the MVP and she has the unique playstyle that allows the outplays for that to happen. But you can do an even better job with half the effort by using literally every single other ADC. She is a champion that requires perfection, full concentration, a clear mind to have good decision making and fast reaction speed for the entire game. This makes Kalista to feel like she is a project with a tight deadline.

[@steffangls]

with a good support that knows what w and r do, you dont have any problem carrying the game, because her e is just so good especially with runaans huricane

[@lucicred7763]

@@steffangls A good support is hard to find, since she needs a support that can both initiate and peel for her at the same time, and this restricts your support a lot, because a good support won't just sit with you 24/7, not even your duo, since only bad ones, or simple minded ones, that just expect to get carried. The "good" ones are carrying themselves by roaming and helping the jgl or mid (sometimes top but rarely). This is much safer, and easier, way to climb, since Kalista only needs to make one mistake and she dies (too many times I jumped into the enemy instead of away because of mental exhaustion).

[@VarsVerum]

Man why even bother watching the video? >:(

[@lucicred7763]

@@VarsVerum Because I like your videos

[@VarsVerum]

@@lucicred7763 this guy spoiler alerting everything reeeee

[@LampLadyFiora]

(Long comment from a Kalista main) I'm a Kalista main since season 6. When I decided to pick her up I was still pretty bad at the game but what attracted me to her was her insane kiting passive. That constant movement while attacking was really satisfying for me and I gave it enough time to master it. Also the theme of placing your trust to someone in order to use your R and utilize a little synergy (W mark passive) felt appealing to me. Kalista is broken indeed, if she had similar power to other adcs she'd be too op. So to compensate she got really high damage tools and utility for the team. She can be played top using only 2 of her abilities (Q,E) and still be sucessful. Her Pierce passing stacks of spears is an extremely hard mechanic to utilize and it took me years to even make consistent use of it. Passing stacks from a minion/monster is simpler now but from champion to champion is very rare to happen. I have no trouble calculating my Rend damage and the fact that it's hard to stack more than 10-20 spears is false, against a tank as long as you're positioning correctly with your team you'll stack as many spears as needed to kill anyone. My perspective is when someone goes to 30% hp or less they'll probably die, the factors being their armor/hp and how many spears I stacked on them. I grew to really hate slows due to her movement/atk speed passive being affected by it. A change I'd like would be her distance dashed to be reduced when slowed instead of messing up her attack speed as a whole. Overall Kalista is generally weak due to having such insane tools which give her a very strong early-mid game alone. Despite all that I found success and enjoyment from her and she'll always remain as my number 1 pick. I wish they treated her new Marauder skin better and changed the colors of the spears on chromas, that's a big letdown for all of the Kalista players.

[@TheGracrys]

thank you, as someone who is starting in league and has kalista as main, thank you, yeah, she is too vulnerable to cc's

[@adampospisil1116]

@@TheGracrys try goin a bit tanky. Wits end, mercury scimitar for base. (If enemy lack ap wits end can be replaced with bitrk or mortal reminder) then move to deathdance or blackcleaver depends if there are tanks on enemy team and then go straight for ga and as core item i use kraken to compensate the lack of as. I find this build very powerful in low elo. With this build you will survive the slow and proceed to regain the highground.

[@DanielGalllego]

according to what i'm reading here, something good for the pasive dash will be that to make the speed of said dash be affected ONLY by her attack speed to keep the rithym of autos consistent to said dashes, but that could make her pseudo inmune to movement slows while being over countered by attack speed slows

[@silencio3608]

I bought all her new skin chromas and it's really disappoiting that changes her W but not her Q+E who are the most important skills..

[@Nyartatouille]

I would also like the slows to reduce the dash range instead of slowing directly attack speed

[@mosca8017]

I need a video called "Why everyone plays: League of Legends" and it to start like "I dont f*****g know why". Either way great video, continue like this!

[@VarsVerum]

Why everyone plays league: because we’re all degenerates 🙃

[@rozanguyen30yearsand96]

Kalista idea : indication bar when you’re able to execute them based on spears

[@fernandomanzaneque4905]

yes!!!! like chogaths!!!!!

[@zambaretulzambitor3713]

i like this idea it will make her more noob friendly and even more experienced friendly but I feel she doesnt need this because it will remove her skill cap

[@kirifps]

@@zambaretulzambitor3713 her skill gap is kiting and landing Q, a execute indicator won't change much difficulty wise

[@ssmkuina1417]

YED

[@super3d201]

There were scripts for that, but i dont understand why this is even necessary nowadays, now that pyke etc. have indicators for that

[@xaussiemarksmanx8381]

When my mate plays kalista and when I am his support, I am usually playing Malphite, Its fun to have two Ults XD

[@lightswitch8248]

omg thats so broken lol

[@tobisans8989]

I play malphite an veigar so hello fellow ronk user

[@faona2664]

Try Alistar :D

[@wrzesin8209]

@@faona2664 also nautilus is very good with kalista

[@steelman4237]

My friend does rell

[@itwas467]

Kalista: I'm becoming useless because everyone else is becoming faster! Teemo: First time?

[@KumaTheDestroyer]

The reason I main Kalista is bc she’s fun. Her kit is rly unique and you need to play around the jumping thing... also, I love getting carpal tunnel while playing her.

[@ramielthefifth]

The only time i've seen Kalista is when my friend plays her. I have never seen her in solo q.

[@1Bulgarian]

if we become friends, then you will have 2 friends playing that god forsaken champion

[@MarluART]

There's another big think you forgot to mention about her, because her movement and her attacks are tied into each other in combat, slows and attack speed slows do the same thing. So you are essentially getting double debuffed every single time one of those hits you.

[@fumano2679]

rly? i though if you get slowed you can just stand still and have the same attack speed. weird im dumb maybe.

[@xzerox61]

⁠@@fumano2679i mean yes, you do get your normal attack speed if you stand still and keep AA’ing but those situations arent USUALLY what a kalista wants to be in. To just be standing there usually means death, in a fight anyway

[@brohham3078]

I love Kalista's way of changing how her basic attack works. I find adcs who do that uniquely are better designed overall tbh.

[@Bruh-el9js]

I disagree, none of them is balanced, they always end up being too strong or too weak, Graves, Jhin and Kalista being the examples

[@brohham3078]

@@Bruh-el9js I mean if every adc was as unique as Graves, Kallista, and Senna then we could have a healthier meta altogether since characters could fall in/out of the meta without riot hotfix buffing or nerfing adcs since they forgot Ashe Q applies on-hit effects or they forgot about Draven's blood rush being named BLOOD RUSH. Most adcs serve the same exact function. So they end up being "flavours of the week" that riot decides which is good or not. I'd much rather have every adc have unique tools to help their team and themselves.

[@Bruh-el9js]

@@brohham3078 it seems I'm the on person in the community that hates the protagonistic role ADCs think they play

[@brohham3078]

@@Bruh-el9js wym? Adcs have beem one of the most made into one of the most important roles by riot. Without an adc or adc-killer on your team you have 30 minutes to win the game. That 30 minutes gets extended for every death of the enemy adc but it's still true. No role holds as much power lategame, not even mages anymore

[@Bruh-el9js]

@@brohham3078 the thing is that there are no longer ADC killers, and even if you manage to feed a Zed to the point where he can kill you, you still have GA, Immortal Shielbow and an entire team peeling you, this is a very bad meta, roles have been pushed aside because there's no need for them anymore now that ADCs can cosplay as juggernauts.

[@Savings_and_Grift_Plan]

Kalista was actually one of the first ADCs I picked up and did well with. But she kept on getting hit with the nerf hammer to the point it just stopped being fun to play her. >Auto attacks down to 90% from 100% >Pierce no longer able to be cast during leaping >Rend mana now refunded per two minions killed instead of one >Dash speed impacted by attack speed slows (i.e frozen heart) >Rend crippled to 50% on monsters Easier to just give up and main Jhin instead. Don't have to risk him getting put into the garbage pile if he does well in pro-play the way Kalista was.

[@Road_Code]

Not gonna lie... I legit forgot kalista was a champion. I haven't been in a single.match with her since before preseason 10.

[@RotiPattaya]

Last time i saw a Kalista when they buff her once last season

[@areallyrealisticguyd4333]

She was good at one point in season 10 with the old items but after she got nerfed & season 11 came around shes irrelevant asf

[@marcusmaynard1526]

Lissandra too haha

[@frozi3193]

Tried her a few weeks ago. Seemed pretty damn fun. Gotta buy her now that her BE price got lowered with Viego's release.

[@austinwilcox9290]

it feels like stridebreaker was literally meant to counter kalista, you could be a 7/2 kali with 3 items but if you get hit by the 0/6 darius' strikebreaker its lights out.

[@roxygreenwood8345]

Well, yea stride breaker is built by dueling champions mostly. The strongest dueler in the game shout be able to kill the adc IF CAUGHT ALONE even if he 0/12

[@P1aceHo1derName]

@@roxygreenwood8345 Kai’sa would like to have a word. I nearly lost a 1v1 to a 0/2 Kai’sa as a 3/2 volibear, I wasn’t even being kited. I only won because the support shielded me

[@anomalousbanana2299]

@@P1aceHo1derName huge shield + dash, untargeted damage, massive burst go brr

[@zac1443]

@@charger2991 Shes getting nerfed in 11.4 :D

[@biggiecheese2004]

@@zac1443 he's still right, samira is gutted and kaisa barely gets nerfed even though she's in a tier of her own rn

[@phantomgg7790]

Anyone who plays this character already knows why FOR IT LITERALLY DEMANDS YOU TO DUO QUE OR DONT PLAY AT ALL

[@mintegral1719]

me, a low elo solo queue Kalista player:

[@shubashuba3978]

@@mintegral1719 thats the true kalista experience, to be betrayed in solo q by your brainless support

[@AshBlossomWorshiper]

Once the lore progresses to a point where it would make sense for Kalista, I honestly believe she should lose all the oathsworn stuff in favor of a completely different solo driven mechanic

[@hertzovik9990]

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[@shubashuba3978]

youre so real for this

[@tabukimon]

hey man, ive discovered this channel some days ago and i been watching your videos non stop, keep up the great content, you deserve more atention

[@VarsVerum]

Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoy them :D

[@robofluff1449]

I started playing kalista about a month ago and she is one of my favorite adc's. I love the way she can outplay people and I feel that I can master her. It's a challenge that I'm willing to take and a champion I enjoy.

[@Zancibar]

I played a lot of lesser played champions because it seems like they always teach you something that you can use later on; Lillia taught me how to dodge and kite. Zilean taught me how to measure risks and to check items bought. Teemo taught me setup and positioning. And now Kalista shall teach me how to use the Attack-Move command. Wish me luck in my coming loss streak.

[@AlkaMind]

Don't use build up too much attack speed.. The more attack speed you have the more likely Attack move will mess up.

[@HighLanderPonyYT]

@@AlkaMind You need AS because it also increases the hop distance.

[@shubashuba3978]

@@HighLanderPonyYT up to a point

[@offdabean]

i’ve been thinking about getting this champ too, what a stroke of luck for this to pop in my feed.

[@greysen212]

Do it.Suffer.Transcend.Find Joy in the Pain.

[@CreepergeddonTheGamer]

I wish your poor hand the best of luck

[@ags8507]

@@galeofdusk dont do drugs

[@riz3778]

so,any update?

[@riz3778]

@@galeofdusk "I don't even know who you are"

[@SaltyJuan]

She’s a hidden OP gem if you’re amazing at her. Keep her as is, don’t touch my baby

[@nikolakrastev8880]

Kalista is the hardest champion in the game. Me as a horrible Azir player - really now? Good video by the way.

[@VarsVerum]

Man I forgot all about him! How silly of me, I wonder *Why NO ONE Plays: Azir* :3

[@danri7778]

@@VarsVerum does that mean Azir is next?

[@VarsVerum]

@@danri7778 Nope, Sivir.

[@itspikachutime5624]

I used to azir till his mini update kinda hurt my interest

[@midasra1132]

@@VarsVerum His granddaughter. Fitting

[@lonerimortal8]

I saw your video about kayle and i instantlly fell in love with this series. good job :^D

[@VarsVerum]

Thank you! :D

[@averythegamer4949]

I just picked her up today after my friend convinced me to give her a try after expressing interest in her, and ya she's hard, but she's also the most fun I've had on an ADC in a long time. She can get away some some nutty stuff in lane. I have comms with my duo who supports me and my kalista with her aggressive support style turned out to be an incredible combination. She's just so fun to play and fight with in lane. I've only played a few games on her so far but I think I'm gonna make her my main ADC when I duo, she's just so damn fun.

[@WizardLizard01]

Kalista + Morg is super good. You ult morg into the enemy team then she ults and stopwatch and watch the chaos take progress

[@gulicore]

she looked cool. she had nice abilities. I fell in love with her.

[@Ri-my8fv]

i cant believe they nerfed kalista to the ground... kalista used to be able to kite nasus out, now.... um...

[@IYPITWL]

Uh but of a misspeak 6:50 kalistas autos do 90% of her ad. Onhit effects are not reduced.

[@PurpleAU]

I think one of the best changes that can be made to kalista without being super over powered is the fact that your W passive and ult can be used with anyone on your team and not just your Aly.

[@SwebHat]

been enjoying kalista so much when you have some items shes insanely fun. i also find that making your top laner the oathsworn is so much better

[@James-ey3ph]

Great to see this video doing really well!

[@VarsVerum]

My whole channel is popping in growth now :D

[@dreamert694]

man you put so much work into these videos - very well researched and edited

[@NeeL-ZzZz]

if everyone got mobility buffs- she's been getting hop nerfs since release. revert the backward hop nerf, and make slows a bit less punishing to her hops . nasus w just exhausts her, literally

[@pufferbish]

i think they should give her multiple uses of her starting spear, so she can choose to bind it onto a different ally later. it would make the dependency on the support a lot less in solo queue, and wouldn't make her too op because you couldn't change it quickly in a team fight because of the time it takes to bind to the ally.

[@nishu4406]

you can purchase it for free anytime in shop. IK I'm 2 years late but its ok

[@colby1853]

I remember playing her once like 2 years ago and not even considering her since but this video has reawakened the idea as it reminded me that she is a very satisfying champ but just isn't strong enough especially on her own

[@neckslicer]

not a kalista main per se, but ive played her a couple times and i really like playing her. i just decided to try her out one day because she was in the free rotation, and i just fell in love. her unique playstyle and kiting is very appealing to me, and her autoattacks feel good.

[@christiandejesa9339]

at 2:00 because jinx passive was about being excited! and we know jinx's character. she's loud.

[@ВсеславМатвеев]

Thank you for your work.

[@VarsVerum]

Thank you for watching

[@Scipio0404]

"Are either smurfs or hard feeders, never in between" That is just wrong.

[@rndmcreater]

simple answer : riot kept nerfing her

[@girlwithalaptop5690]

I’ve been WAITING FOR THIS ONE!

[@Marqiyahu]

I put 100k Points in her after playing her non-stop trying to make her work, but after playing with other Meta adcs I just don't see a situation where she could be useful anymore. She has 0 escape her range is abysmal and even if you get ahead if you're team doesn't work together to end the game before 30 minutes she just falls off really hard and that is just the problems I had on my grind off the top of my head.

[@azteka6103]

I was thinking to buy her today, with real money, should i?

[@hellion4455]

wouldn't say that kalista is the most difficult champion to play, but she definitely demands more concentration to play than other champs. she's hella fun especially with the right supports to compliment you

[@hazeldaniels1679]

I feel like a significant portion of what makes Kalista hard to improve on is how many decisions contribute to a single fight. On a champion like Swain for instance, it's really easy to analyze a fight and be like 'ok, I needed to hit e' or 'this fight is won as long as I flash jinx r'. Most champions in this game have a very small list of easily apparent (in hindsight) win conditions within skirmishes. Champions like Irelia are a bit more complicated, where each minion q can be thought of as a resource in a fight, and so deciding how best to use that resource adds to the skill expression of the champion, because each q represents a decision that is being made. With Kalista however, each and every single auto attack represents a decision being made. autoing away from an opponent gives you space, however by doing so you are opening yourself up to getting hit by skillshots, and autoing perpendicular to your opponent has the opposite trade off. Especially late game, your auto target also begins to matter, since autoing a minion can let you reset your e mid fight to slow the opponent and give you an edge, an incredibly important skill. You also need to be proficient in using your e reset along with your q while also paying attention to your hop. Every single auto attack on Kalista, especially late game, holds the same weight of micro-decision making that most champions input into a whole fight. Every fight you are making 10s, if not hundreds of small decisions that tip the scales one way or the other. The other issue has to do with rank. The vast majority of low elo (for the sake of argument, iron to mid gold) don't regularly use their auto attack move command, something that is basically mandatory to pull off the vast majority of the mechanics REQUIRED to make Kalista work. Using your e resets properly, q'ing the opponent on your e resets to buff the dmg and slow, getting the rhythm to jump in the right direction while doing so, and being able to harass your opponent using quick trades in lane, are all practically impossible to do consistently without using your auto attack command. High elo players generally use it, but by the time you reach high elo, the effort to go back and learn a champion with a completely different playstyle to the ones that got you to your elo in the first place, and one you will inevitably feed on for a little, is a heavy order. For those of us who pick her up in low elo, many players will have to learn to use their A-click before they really progress, and even then it will still be a bit of feeding before she becomes a reliable pick for the elo you are in. With all this being said I have always fundamentally disagreed with the assertion that Kalista is a weak champ, or one with balancing issues, because I've never really thought that was the case. She just has a demanding skill curve, and has specific difficulties that make picking her up hard to justify for most players, and while I love seeing new Kalista players, I don't think low playrates should ever fundamentally be seen as a problem. Kalista will probably always remain a champion that is a decent pick if you know what you're doing, but one that is hard to pick up and rare to see, and as a Kalista main myself I don't really have a problem with this. She is still strong in the right hands, and for those of us who absolutely adore a playstyle that gives you basically infinite micro-decisions to make, she is amazing to play. Unfortunately that means riot never gives us quality skins though lol TLDR: Kalista's playrate is so low because of the sheer number of micro-decisions made in fights, the necessity of auto attack commands, the necessity of understanding when you can use your rend and q to give you an advantage, and because riot gave us our first skin in literally years and it's one of the lowest quality skins they've put out in recent history. Also, I'm currently in high plat, and sitting at about 600k mastery, for those who are interested.

[@sam9067-p8s]

I've been having moderate success with her in the jungle of all things. I was trolling at first but I may have found something. Early vision from your w is amazing in spotting out suspect enemy jungle positions and preventing ganks since people don't listen to your pings. You do 15% max hp if you're ganking your marked lane. You can also reposition your duo during team fights to get into the face of their squishies.

[@andrewkhuu7116]

Really love the fire emblem music you put in some of these videos.

[@Makgeulli]

In the right hands she can be a killer machine. I remember when she once carries her team in one of my games it was wild

[@joueurdudimanche760]

I started to OTP kalista at the start of the new season ( a little before) , I like it, even if it s hard to play or win lane when your support doesn't know your champ...

[@ryloth6664]

i love that u used the TL tactical outplay in this video

[@angeloparavella3017]

I do thrive with kalista, she's my autofill go to adc, it really helps people underestimate her dmg

[@darkeather2]

A few weeks ago I decided to give kalista a genuine try. I love her aesthetics and have an obsession with the shadow isles, so I figured I could power through the frustrating learning curve she requires. My very first match, I got a 1st time bard that never showed up to lane. Not exaggerating, he literally never went to bot lane for the entire match, not even to drop off a heal to even ATTEMPT to compensate for how bad he was crippling me. I was fighting a kai'sa and a seraphine. Only one game in, I decided it wasn't even remotely worth it.

[@BomberDavi]

bro thrust me find a nice support who likes to play leona/tresh/nautilus/alistar and then kalista becomes the most fun out of all adcs

[@Kryze1]

Idk who no one is but why is he playing so many champs ?

[@-8h-]

People who commonly went 2/12 with any hero were getting pentakills and going 10/1 with launch Vayne.

[@maximus2463]

I'm a kalista main. A strong , independent kalista that can indeed make good use of her . I started playing her because she is so GODAMN fun that It Ended Up being One of my favourites. I really love to start playing her and I like hard champs , that's why I main her

[@jolianmalia]

I was so curious if you had a WHY NO ONE PLAYS video for neeko since i main her but sadly couldn't find anything :( . It seems so rare to find anyone playing her and i don't understand why. I hope we see one soon. Keep the good content and much love

[@HighLanderPonyYT]

She bores me to death. Yet another champ with a catch spell + comboable AoE, just with a clone gimmick.

[@paulcislini1448]

Hello ! I'm a Kalista main since the champ has been introduced to the game. I love kalista for a kit for sure (even tho her kit makes it unbalancable). It gives an infinite amout of possibilities during fight. For example if you are forced to focus a fed tank because the backline has too many cc's or whatever situation where you are zoned : focusing the tank can be good as you can Q+E to potentially anhilate 1 person in the back line. To me there is a lot of way of building kalista to make it fun or adaptable to many teams and your skill is the limit (or cc's xd). To me Kalista feels like an unending challenge, you can always improve, a fight you've done could potentially have gone better if u stepped one time on the left at this specific time. I don't know if this helped you to understant why we or I love kalista. It's just an incredible champ to me (chara design, how refreshing and new her kit was, the synergy it makes with your beloved support). Please love Kalista. "Our task is unending"

[@Jenny-jy8zb]

i remember the first time i got ulted by a kalista, i had absolutely no idea what was going on lol

[@thenoodlemaster117]

I have lost more duels than I can count because of auto attacks missing when you lose line of sight.

[@switchhop6020]

Literally the biggest problem. I lost so many games because i couldnt get that last aa on the enemy carry to kill him and he wiped the whole Team because of it.

[@TheDeltaMC]

Great video, some attention to the blue to the favorite blue balance nightmare in the game is always appreciated. Regarding ideas to maybe make her more easily balanced the make her Ult independent of ally presence and maybe change her W passive so that her ally slow her target instead off dealing more damage and maybe remove the "Attacks only scale with 90% AD" to make her damage more consistent

[@VarsVerum]

A common sentiment among the comments is to make it so her basic attacks autotarget the way Urgot W does so all you have to do is move around.

[@TheDeltaMC]

@@VarsVerum That would work very well to make her a kind of kitting Urgot, though Riot would have to lower her damage output to compensate for the quality of life

[@mazzavalerio5898]

a long time a go i've opened a reddit post where i tried to discuss about putting a sort of fear on her (i had this idea by re-reading her lore). You told it in this video there are only few people that use her R corrcly and the other ones put them selfs in such a bad position that makes lose the teamfight AND the game

[@Jagatrip1]

Change her w so it gives her a camouflage for a short duration like senna with out giving it to teamates that is, and not close to as long of an duration, enemys could see where you are, but not target you with out geting quite close (a bit longer then melee range) this would only last for 1,5-2 seconds and have lets say 15 second cooldown that resets on kills. she should be able to continue autoing with out get revealed while this effect is active. and they should make her autos follow into bushes.

[@curry5946]

The biggest issue is the insane attack speed slow when she is slowed. Not only does it reduce your mobility but with literally every champ having cc and slows now (items included) you’re not able to do damage if you can’t auto

[@quentindandrea8935]

I played kalista for a week straight and I'm still recovering from the carpal tunnel she gave me

[@aodhanmartinez]

Two of my favorite ADCs of all time are Kalista and Aphelios but it's super hard to enjoy them in solo queue and I have no friends to play league with

[@Gale42]

i used to be a kalista main, it's so great to play her since 99% of the player base don't even know wtf she does, and the i straitght up carry the game since no one can reach me and if they can the can't kill me fast enough.

[@theamazingcocktus5039]

So much plays kalista. In the games I play.

[@Ворчун-з3ш]

Funny fact, in lol wild rift (mobile lol) calista is of the most OP characters because of controls closer to consols where moves and auto-atacks are separated. On PC however its LMB for both.

[@astillia6073]

2:00 It's Jinx. That's why there's exclamation points on every single on.

[@tcgjanitor9111]

Been kinda binging this series especially as a noob to this game. Really want to find a main and this vids are helpful and entertaining.

[@VarsVerum]

Welcome! I suggest you try a more popular champion before diving into one of these though haha

[@jrvasiosk]

You didn't mention her main problems in my view. 1. She's falls of from a cliff the longer a game goes, despite her strength early. She easily loses with 3 items against some adcs with 2 items. 2. The Jump frequency is capped. If you have 2.5 attack speed you will only be able to jump at 1.x rates. This limits her already low dps late. 3. If the enemies have consistent slows, you are not able to kite because the jump becomes super slow so you have to stand and bang. When you are behind this feels terrible.

[@chillicorgo]

Kalista + Rell is amazing! Enemies get close to her? Rell stunn followed up by the rest of Rells kit while the Kalista destroys them.

[@ZenGeiger]

if they remove that slow nerf they gave her to her jump she would be playable. That nerf is what really made her feel like poop to me.

[@klunkedej7740]

I like that my mains is Kayla and Khalista :3

[@klunkedej7740]

Same bruh haha

[@dabear5641]

I’ve played Kalista for a long time. Her early game to me is her only good point as beyond that you hit the nail on the head, it becomes an “Ill use this ult to leave the teamfight that we could win with all this CC” from my oathsworn. Honestly, they should keep her nerfs but make alterations to her W and R for it she’s left alone. It’s not like League lacks broken champions anymore.

[@ДенчикизНоксуса]

As a adc main(play almost adc role only and all adc champ champs) Kalista need a huge buff like a man want a water in a dessert. First make passive a bit longer and faster jumps. Make low cd on Q buff damage on Q and E. And make her playstyle if she play without Oath. Because she uncompetitively capable with all adc, and don't forget she have -10% damage from aa and your aa will missed if you lost vision

[@MetalClown0]

Me .5 seconds after reading the title:Her ult

[@Silber_Ag]

While I do quite enjoy Kalista, a large part of any success I find on her can be attributed to a frien of mine who happens to be a support main.

[@monsteralta]

everytime I saw a new episode of this collection, I came up with a video in my mind, a super short version why no one play kalista: hopping is game breaking, she thus nerfed to ground.

[@JamesonHuddle]

Kalista main: story and thoughts: I started playing kalista top when Pianta's video "copying" The Shy came out. It took me a while to get a handle on the basic movement and using q to poke and set up for all ins, but it was FUN, when played correctly she is exactly the type of champion I want, carry potential at range giving the enemy 0 chance of counterattack. (before learning kalista I was an adc main and I was annoyed at my duo partner and about being relient on supports in general) Unfortunatly, in the top lane I never got consistent, most games were either hard carry or hard feed, and being low elo (but mostly playing norms) games would last a long time, meaning kalista's strengths would be far past their prime resulting in a fair portion of games that I won lane hard hard some great skirmishes, but once full teamfights and the 25-30 minute mark came around I would start dying a lot and usually lose. Kalista top had some problems, I don't think I ever fully learned the matchups, ganks would often result in instant death and my map awareness was kinda shit (still is but slightly less), and you still had to rely on teammate (usually jg) for ult and w usage, and of course some games jg doesn't touch top lane. Fast forward to after they removed Sanguine blade (it pretty much killed top kalista). At this point I had left my duo partner and started playing some lethality caitlyn (thanks XFSN Saber, and Dark Mane) I played some Kalista mid lane and experimented with full lethality which is kind of garbage? It can be fun but I doubt it would be anything but a feed fest late game or in any elo higher than silver where I resided. In the past couple months I decided I was gonna get out of silver, so I started playing adc which is definitely my best role, I played some of my usual champs but couldn't get Ashe or Cait to work as well as my Kalista. So I played her pretty much every game that my random support didn't ask me to play something they were more comfortable with. Despite some supports not really clicking and some bad games, I climbed from silver 3 to gold four in the past couple of weeks. And I am currently trying to decide if I want to keep playing this broken silly game and keep climbing. Kalista has some problems, I don't know how it happens but sometimes my rend goes on cooldown even after killing a minion with it, the ultimate is janky as fuck sometimes, it is like the support bounces back after yeeting themselves onto the enemy, and in bot lane where you can't level only rend and Q my Q decides that it doesn't want to go through even very low health minions. Slows are the bane of Kalista because they reduce "hop" speed which in turn reduces damage and obviously slows you down, I try to treat slows as roots and just keep attacking while standing still, (this is usually the better option, though sometimes both will get you killed). I build full crit damage with kraken slayer almost every game. You can not go with full heal cut item if you want to win, it is just bad, you need someone else to get it or if no one else is just pick up the executioners and sell it late game. I go attack speed boots and kraken first (sometimes picking up an early vamp scepter if needed), then lord doms, at this point I'm looking for either runans or IE. Situational items include, collector, edge of night, QSS (rare), RFC (very good for kali but can take a while getting used to different auto attack ranges), GA (also rare), BT is good and Blade of the ruined king is also nice sometimes. Hail of Blades is king on Kalista. Hope anyone reading this has a good night! Be nice in your solo Q games folks or else they might remove team chat too (lul stupid riot)

[@Rabbit-o-witz]

Holy shit that braum He just died. There was no sound, no warning. He just died

[@Han-Wook]

I love playing kalista, I think shes pretty strong, the only problem is that 70% of the supports I get mess up her ult... either not knowing what to do or missing the enemy entirely or just using it to retreat when the idea is no initiate

[@Kaninjäveln]

Yeah I feel you.

[@pyjama1055]

I was playing her since 9.15 until the end of s10 got almost a million mastery points and name Mia Kalista, she was a beautiful solo lane. But s11 removed Frozen Mallet and this is the only think that stopping me from playing her again.

[@thefruitboot160]

Kalista dashing after every auto is soo great and then u auto dash q dash u can make so much distance then e shred anything

[@sourkraudy]

Ah man, loved the last one, dang, hate to see it on one of my favorite ADC's

[@LucielTeo]

tbh, I played kalista before they changed her W passive to damage instead of attack speed. It was nice to have some extra attack speed in the start of the game when near to your support that could also buff your autos like janna, lulu and others. Miss the good old first bloods with her ToT

[@tryndameregaming7387]

7:00 You are missleading when it comes to the base-stats. Her HP is a bit bellow the averege Marksman at lvl 1 but the highest at lvl 18. Her armor is the lowest at lvl 1 and the highest at 18, the MR is the same for all Marksmen except Aphelios, he has 4 Mr lower at all points.

[@VarsVerum]

Oh my mistake! Thank you for pointing that out :)

[@Nuclearburrit0]

Kalista needs: Attack move that only targets champions and her oathsworn mechanic to be reworked out because fuck that. Her Passive and E are insanely fun for me to use and her Q is cool too, but it's so heavily bogged down ;(

[@VarsVerum]

Urgot W auto targeting would be really nice on Kalista not gonna lie haha

[@Nuclearburrit0]

@@VarsVerum Kalista W rework OwO?

[@PlatinumHntr]

An idea for Oathsworn is to make more flexible where she doesn't have to rely on one specific character to be next to her the whole time, or allow her to use any ally unit like a minion (I know it's a stretch but it could lead to interesting ideas), and give her some form of utility like a teleport or camoflauge.

[@bishopevans8891]

Kali here has a "stackable" execute with dark harvest + culling. I've played about 20 games rushing culling and starting with its components. With dark harvest, if you proc it first, you will almost always get an execute from either e or culling. With out culling, you have a basic 2%+ execute, with it, you jump straight to 10%+, and rushing a GA after jumps you up to a 25%+ execute. (+meaning harvest damage and number of spears. But with 2 spears, the calculations are accurate depending or enemies Mr, armor, and if you have at least a level one w)

[@bishopevans8891]

And to clarify, the values given are the percent at which pressing E with a base 1 e will kill the target. It changes greatly when leveling e, at max rank getting a literal 45% execute after procing harvest.

[@bishopevans8891]

I explained this very badly, but this is the reserch I have gathered.

[@austinroush3137]

I picked kalista up ages ago and didn't get good with her until recently, and most people think ult is nice when throwing in but nobody really knows how it works, so I mostly just use it to save my team mate

[@deneskun.8587]

I main kalista and I dont really know why. Somehow other marksman are just too boring for me. I hated the runaan reverse because it gave the passive, attackspeed and damage on a first item and now its bad again. I loved to build her tanky because runaan and frozen mallet had a fun sinergy. I like the new bork on her also.

[@OtherMaT]

Kalista needs to be able to change her spear from the support to any other teammate at any time of the game

[@ZattyBoi]

ik im kinda late on this, 2 years, idk if that was possible back then, but now it is

[@alexandersalazar4736]

The last time I played Kalista in SoloQ like 4 days ago. My support just straight up ignored my ultimate