Kalista vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Kalista
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Kalista vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against Irelia
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Advice to Win Against Irelia
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Kalista vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Kalista in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several important Kalista vs. Irelia matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Irelia..
Kalista normally has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Irelia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kalista and Irelia
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Who is Better, Kalista or Irelia?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kalista usually wins when facing off against Irelia, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Kalista makes a good counter for Irelia.
While Kalista does have a higher win rate than Irelia, when facing one another, Kalista also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Kalista into Ireliaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kalista also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Irelia matchups, Kalista is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kalista is a decent counter for Irelia. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kalista against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to counter Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Irelia. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Kalista versus Irelia build include Immortal Shieldbow, Runaan's Hurricane, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Irelia than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kalista had an average winrate of 51.6% battling Irelia with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Irelia as Kalista, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Kalista vs Irelia counters, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Irelia as Kalista are displayed for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.