Neeko vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Neeko
based on 973 Neeko vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Neeko vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Neeko vs Kalista Counter Build
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Core Neeko Items
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Neeko
Tips for Playing as Neeko against Kalista
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
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.
Neeko vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Neeko in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several vital Neeko versus Kalista matchup stats that may help you understand the differences between the two. For instance, Neeko’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Neeko may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Neeko typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Kalista. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Neeko and Kalista
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Who is Better, Neeko or Kalista?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Neeko usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 53.0% win rate. As a result, Neeko makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Neeko does have a higher winrate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Neeko also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Neeko into Kalista.
Moreover, Neeko also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Neeko vs Kalista matchups, Neeko is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Neeko is a good counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Neeko against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Neeko in order to counter Kalista during both the laning 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 stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Neeko typically racks up less CS relative to Kalista. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Neeko versus Kalista build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Neeko incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs Kalista than with many other typical builds. In fact, Neeko boasted an average winrate of 53.0% when playing against Kalista with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Kalista as Neeko, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Neeko vs Kalista counters, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.0% winrate overall.
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