Taliyah vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Taliyah
based on 468 Taliyah vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Kalista
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Taliyah in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some critical Taliyah versus Kalista counter stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kalista..
Taliyah usually has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taliyah and Kalista
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Kalista?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 55.1% win rate. Therefore, Taliyah makes a fantastic counter for Kalista.
While Taliyah does have a much higher win rate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Taliyah also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Taliyah into Kalista.
Additionally, Taliyah also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Kalista matchups, Taliyah is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Taliyah is a great counter for Kalista. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Taliyah against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Taliyah in order to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kalista. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Taliyah versus Kalista build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Kalista than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average winrate of 55.1% when playing against Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Kalista as Taliyah, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Taliyah vs Kalista counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 55.1% winrate overall.
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