Kalista vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Kalista
based on 671 Kalista vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kalista vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs Poppy Counter Build
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Core Kalista Items
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against Poppy
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 Poppy
Poppy can stop nearby enemies from dashing with Steadfast Presence.
When Poppy starts to spin her hammer, she is charging Keeper's Verdict.
You can step on Poppy's shield to deny it from her.
Kalista vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Kalista in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some important Kalista versus Poppy matchup stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Poppy’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Poppy. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kalista usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Poppy. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kalista and Poppy
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Who is Better, Kalista or Poppy?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kalista usually loses when trying to fight Poppy, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Kalista makes a bad counter for Poppy.
While Kalista does have a lower win rate than Poppy, when facing one another, Kalista also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kalista into Poppyas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kalista has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Poppy. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kalista is a trash counter to Poppy. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kalista against Poppy.
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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 Poppy during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista typically picks up more CS relative to Poppy. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Kalista versus Poppy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Poppy than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 48.0% when countering Poppy with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Poppy as Kalista, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Kalista vs Poppy LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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