Tristana vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Tristana
based on 2,608 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.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Advice to Win Against Kalista
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.
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.
Tristana vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several important Tristana against Kalista matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kalista..
Tristana usually has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased HP 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 champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 55.1% win rate. Thus, Tristana makes a fantastic counter to Kalista.
While Tristana does have a much higher winrate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Tristana also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Tristana into Kalista.
Moreover, Tristana has only a small amount of CC and other utility, 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 one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Kalista matchups, Tristana is the better champion 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 great counter to Kalista. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Tristana against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tristana 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They 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, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Tristana versus Kalista build include Kraken Slayer, Guardian Angel, and Phantom Dancer. When Tristana bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Kalista than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 55.1% when playing against Kalista with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Kalista as Tristana, Tristana players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Bloodline runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Tristana vs Kalista counters, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 55.1% win rate overall.
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