Kayle vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Kayle
based on 1,008 Kayle vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Kalista Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Kalista
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some valuable Kayle against Kalista counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Kayle typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Kalista
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Who is Better, Kayle or Kalista?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kayle usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 53.8% win rate. As a result, Kayle makes a great counter to Kalista.
While Kayle does have a higher winrate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Kayle also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Kayle into Kalistaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayle has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Kalista matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a great counter for Kalista. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayle against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kayle to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Kalista. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Kayle versus Kalista build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Kayle used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better countering Kalista than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kayle had an average winrate of 53.8% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Kalista as Kayle, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Kayle vs Kalista counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.8% winrate overall.
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