Sivir vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Sivir
based on 429 Sivir vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sivir vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Sivir vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Sivir
Tips for Playing as Sivir against Kalista
Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
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.
Sivir vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Sivir in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several significant Sivir against Kalista matchup stats that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Sivir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sivir may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kalista..
Sivir typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Kalista. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sivir and Kalista
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Who is Better, Sivir or Kalista?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sivir usually fairs equally well when playing against Kalista, with a 50.6% win rate. As a result, Sivir makes an ok counter for Kalista.
While Sivir does have a higher win rate than Kalista, when on opposite teams, Sivir also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Sivir into Kalista.
Additionally, Sivir has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sivir vs Kalista matchups, Sivir is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Sivir is a decent counter for Kalista. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sivir against Kalista.
Other Champion Matchups Against Sivir
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How We Calculated Our Sivir vs Kalista Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sivir in order to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sivir typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kalista. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Sivir versus Kalista build include Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Sivir combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs. Kalista than with most other common builds. In fact, Sivir boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when countering Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Kalista as Sivir, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Sivir vs Kalista counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.6% win rate overall.
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