Kalista vs Mordekaiser
How to Beat Mordekaiser as Kalista
based on 2,281 Kalista vs Mordekaiser matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kalista vs Mordekaiser Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs Mordekaiser Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Mordekaiser as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against Mordekaiser
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 Mordekaiser
Mordekaiser builds up a powerful damage aura when fighting champions, so keep your distance.
Realm of Death will cut you off from your teammates completely. Try to save mobility spells to escape Mordekaiser once inside
Damage he deals can be converted into a large shield, and consumed for health
Kalista vs Mordekaiser Counter Stats
How to Counter Mordekaiser with Kalista in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some important Kalista vs. Mordekaiser matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Mordekaiser’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Mordekaiser..
Kalista often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Mordekaiser. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kalista and Mordekaiser
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Who is Better, Kalista or Mordekaiser?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually loses when playing against Mordekaiser, with a 46.5% win rate. As a result, Kalista makes a poor counter to Mordekaiser.
While Kalista does have a lower winrate compared to Mordekaiser, when facing one another, Kalista also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kalista into Mordekaiseras her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kalista also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Mordekaiser. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Mordekaiser matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kalista is a trash counter for Mordekaiser. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kalista against Mordekaiser.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kalista in order to counter Mordekaiser during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Mordekaiser. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Kalista versus Mordekaiser build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kalista bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Mordekaiser than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kalista had an average winrate of 46.5% when countering Mordekaiser with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Mordekaiser as Kalista, Kalista players should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Kalista vs Mordekaiser LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
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