Twitch vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Twitch
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Twitch vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Twitch vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Twitch
Tips for Playing as Twitch against Kalista
Contaminate has a large range; apply as many stacks of Deadly Venom as possible before using it.
Twitch's Attack Speed is among the highest in the game; try purchasing items with on-hit effects such as Black Cleaver or Wit's End.
You can catch up to an enemy out of attack range with Venom Cask.
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.
Twitch vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Twitch in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several critical Twitch against Kalista matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Twitch’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Twitch may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista..
Twitch usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Twitch and Kalista
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Who is Better, Twitch or Kalista?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Twitch usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 52.6% win rate. As a result, Twitch makes a good counter for Kalista.
While Twitch does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when facing one another, Twitch also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Twitch into Kalista.
Furthermore, Twitch has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Twitch vs Kalista matchups, Twitch 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 late stage team fights.
Twitch is a good counter for Kalista. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Twitch against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Twitch in order to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Twitch typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Twitch versus Kalista build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Twitch combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Kalista than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Twitch had an average win rate of 52.6% when countering Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Kalista as Twitch, Twitch players should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Twitch vs Kalista fights, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.6% win rate overall.
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