Seraphine vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Seraphine
based on 1,522 Seraphine vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Seraphine vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Seraphine vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Seraphine
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.
Seraphine vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Seraphine in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some significant Seraphine against Kalista counter stats that can help us explain the differences between the two. For instance, Seraphine’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Seraphine may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kalista. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Seraphine normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Kalista. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Seraphine and Kalista
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Who is Better, Seraphine or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Seraphine usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 52.8% win rate. As a result, Seraphine makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Seraphine does have a higher win rate than Kalista, when facing one another, Seraphine also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Seraphine into Kalista.
Furthermore, Seraphine also has a very large 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 is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Seraphine vs Kalista matchups, Seraphine is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Seraphine is an above average counter for Kalista. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Seraphine against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Seraphine 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 that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Seraphine most often racks up less CS compared to Kalista. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Seraphine versus Kalista build include Seraph's Embrace, Celestial Opposition, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Seraphine incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Kalista than with most other common builds. In fact, Seraphine boasted an average winrate of 52.8% when countering Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Kalista as Seraphine, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Triple Tonic, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Seraphine vs Kalista matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kalista as Seraphine are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.