Nilah vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Nilah
based on 541 Nilah vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nilah vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Nilah vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Nilah
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.
Nilah vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Nilah in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some influential Nilah versus Kalista counter stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Nilah usually has a similar longest killing spree as their opponent does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nilah and Kalista
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Who is Better, Nilah or Kalista?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nilah usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Nilah makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Nilah does have a higher win rate compared to Kalista, when they face off with one another, Nilah also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Nilah into Kalistaas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nilah has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Kalista matchups, Nilah is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nilah is an above average counter to Kalista. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nilah against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nilah to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Kalista. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nilah versus Kalista build include Bloodthirster, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Nilah bought at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better vs Kalista than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nilah boasted an average winrate of 52.9% battling Kalista with these items in their kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Kalista as Nilah, Nilah players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Nilah vs Kalista counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.9% win rate overall.
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