Trundle vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Trundle
based on 2,017 Trundle vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Trundle vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Trundle vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Trundle
Tips for Playing as Trundle against Kalista
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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.
Trundle vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Trundle in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some critical Trundle against Kalista matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kalista..
Trundle usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Kalista. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Trundle and Kalista
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Who is Better, Trundle or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Trundle usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 54.7% win rate. Thus, Trundle makes a great counter for Kalista.
While Trundle does have a much higher win rate than Kalista, when on opposite teams, Trundle also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Trundle into Kalista.
Furthermore, Trundle has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Kalista matchups, Trundle is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Trundle is a great counter for Kalista. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Trundle against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Trundle in order to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Trundle versus Kalista build consist of Trinity Force, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Trundle bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Kalista than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Trundle boasted an average winrate of 54.7% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Kalista as Trundle, Trundle players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Trundle vs Kalista counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.7% win rate overall.
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