Tristana vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Tristana
based on 1,043 Tristana vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Kalista
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Tristana in LoL
The stats shown here show several valuable Tristana vs. Kalista matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Tristana usually has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tristana and Kalista
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Who is Better, Tristana or Kalista?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 52.1% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes a good counter for Kalista.
While Tristana does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when facing one another, Tristana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Tristana into Kalista.
Moreover, Tristana has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Kalista matchups, Tristana 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.
Tristana is a good counter for Kalista. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tristana to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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 need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Tristana versus Kalista build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Kalista than with most other common item sets. In fact, Tristana had an average winrate of 52.1% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Kalista as Tristana, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Tristana vs Kalista face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
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