Jax vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Jax
based on 2,304 Jax vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jax vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Jax vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Jax
Tips for Playing as Jax against Kalista
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
Jax vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Jax in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several influential Jax against Kalista matchup statistics that can help us explain the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Jax typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Kalista. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jax and Kalista
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Who is Better, Jax or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Jax usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 55.1% win rate. Therefore, Jax makes a fantastic counter to Kalista.
While Jax does have a much higher win rate compared to Kalista, when they face off with one another, Jax also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Jax into Kalista.
Furthermore, Jax has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jax vs Kalista matchups, Jax is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Jax is a great counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Jax against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Jax in order to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Kalista. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Jax versus Kalista build include Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Jax combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Kalista than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Jax had an average winrate of 55.1% battling Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Kalista as Jax, Jax players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Jax vs Kalista matchups, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 55.1% win rate overall.
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