Bard vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Bard
based on 1,026 Bard vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Kalista Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Kalista
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some critical Bard versus Kalista matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kalista. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Bard or Kalista?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 53.3% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a great counter to Kalista.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Kalistaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Kalista matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Bard is a great counter for Kalista. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard on average gets a lot less CS as Kalista. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Bard versus Kalista build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Kalista than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 53.3% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Kalista as Bard, Bard players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Bard vs Kalista battles, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.3% win rate overall.
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