Anivia vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Anivia
based on 482 Anivia vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Anivia vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Anivia vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Anivia
Tips for Playing as Anivia against Kalista
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
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.
Anivia vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Anivia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some strategic Anivia vs. Kalista matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the two. Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Anivia often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives more damage than Kalista. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Anivia and Kalista
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Who is Better, Anivia or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Anivia usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 55.4% win rate. Therefore, Anivia makes a fantastic counter to Kalista.
While Anivia does have a much higher winrate compared to Kalista, when they face off with one another, Anivia also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Anivia into Kalistaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Anivia also has some 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Anivia vs Kalista matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Anivia is a great counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Anivia against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Anivia to counter Kalista during both the lane 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 mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kalista. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Anivia versus Kalista build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Liandry's Torment, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Kalista than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Anivia boasted an average winrate of 55.4% battling Kalista with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Kalista as Anivia, Anivia players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Anivia vs Kalista fights, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 55.4% win rate overall.
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