Lux vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Lux
based on 3,164 Lux vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Kalista
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Lux in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some critical Lux against Kalista counter stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kalista. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Lux often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lux and Kalista
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Who is Better, Lux or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lux usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Lux makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Lux does have a higher winrate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Lux also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Lux into Kalista.
Furthermore, Lux also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Lux vs Kalista matchups, Lux is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Lux is a good counter for Kalista. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lux against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lux in order to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux often gets less CS as Kalista. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Lux versus Kalista build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lux combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Kalista than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lux boasted an average winrate of 52.4% battling Kalista with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Kalista as Lux, Lux players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Lux vs Kalista counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.4% winrate overall.
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