Irelia vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Irelia
based on 932 Irelia vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Kalista
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Irelia in LoL
The stats provided here feature several strategic Irelia versus Kalista matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista..
Irelia normally has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she takes more damage than Kalista. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Irelia and Kalista
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Who is Better, Irelia or Kalista?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Irelia usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 53.0% win rate. Therefore, Irelia makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Irelia does have a higher winrate than Kalista, when facing one another, Irelia also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Irelia into Kalista.
Furthermore, Irelia has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Kalista matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Irelia is an above average counter to Kalista. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Irelia against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to counter Kalista during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Kalista. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Irelia versus Kalista build include Experimental Hexplate, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Kalista than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Irelia had an average win rate of 53.0% battling Kalista with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Kalista as Irelia, Irelia players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Irelia vs Kalista LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.0% win rate overall.
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