Darius vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Darius
based on 1,173 Darius vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Kalista
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Darius in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several critical Darius versus Kalista matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Darius typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Kalista. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Darius and Kalista
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Who is Better, Darius or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Darius usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 54.2% win rate. Therefore, Darius makes a great counter to Kalista.
While Darius does have a much higher win rate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Darius also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Darius into Kalista.
Furthermore, Darius also has only a small 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 in League of Legends, in Darius vs Kalista matchups, Darius is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Darius is a great counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Darius against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Darius in order 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Kalista. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Darius versus Kalista build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Darius bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Kalista than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Darius boasted an average winrate of 54.2% when playing against Kalista with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Kalista as Darius, Darius players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Darius vs Kalista counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.2% winrate overall.
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