Samira vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Samira
based on 1,683 Samira vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Samira vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Samira vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Samira
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.
Samira vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Samira in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some significant Samira vs. Kalista counter statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Samira often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Samira and Kalista
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Who is Better, Samira or Kalista?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Samira usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 51.8% win rate. As a result, Samira makes a good counter for Kalista.
While Samira does have a higher win rate than Kalista, when facing one another, Samira also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Samira into Kalista.
Additionally, Samira also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Samira vs Kalista matchups, Samira is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Samira is a decent counter for Kalista. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Samira against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Samira in order to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kalista. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Samira versus Kalista build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Samira included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Kalista than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Samira had an average winrate of 51.8% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Kalista as Samira, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Samira vs Kalista LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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