Aatrox vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Aatrox
based on 719 Aatrox vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aatrox vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Aatrox vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Aatrox
Tips for Playing as Aatrox against Kalista
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Win Against Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Aatrox vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Aatrox in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several valuable Aatrox versus Kalista matchup statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, showing that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kalista..
Aatrox typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Kalista. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aatrox and Kalista
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Who is Better, Aatrox or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Aatrox usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 55.5% win rate. As a result, Aatrox makes a fantastic counter for Kalista.
While Aatrox does have a much higher winrate than Kalista, when facing one another, Aatrox also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Aatrox into Kalista.
Moreover, Aatrox also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Kalista matchups, Aatrox is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Aatrox is a great counter for Kalista. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Aatrox against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox in order to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Kalista. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Aatrox versus Kalista build include Eclipse, Black Cleaver, and Serylda's Grudge. When Aatrox included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Kalista than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Aatrox had an average win rate of 55.5% battling Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Kalista as Aatrox, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Aatrox vs Kalista face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 55.5% win rate overall.
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