Caitlyn vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Caitlyn
based on 3,074 Caitlyn vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Caitlyn vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn against Kalista
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Caitlyn in LoL
The stats provided here feature several strategic Caitlyn versus Kalista matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Caitlyn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, showing that Caitlyn may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Caitlyn usually has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Kalista. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Caitlyn and Kalista
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Who is Better, Caitlyn or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Caitlyn usually wins when playing against Kalista, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Caitlyn makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Caitlyn does have a higher winrate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Caitlyn also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Caitlyn into Kalista.
Furthermore, Caitlyn also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Caitlyn vs Kalista matchups, Caitlyn is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Caitlyn is a decent counter for Kalista. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Caitlyn against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn in order to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Caitlyn usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kalista. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Caitlyn versus Kalista build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Rapid Firecannon. When Caitlyn incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Kalista than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average winrate of 51.3% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Kalista as Caitlyn, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Caitlyn vs Kalista fights, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.3% win rate overall.
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