Udyr vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Udyr
based on 972 Udyr vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Udyr vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Udyr vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Udyr
Tips for Playing as Udyr against Kalista
Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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.
Udyr vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Udyr in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some vital Udyr vs. Kalista matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Udyr’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Udyr may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Udyr typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Kalista. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Udyr and Kalista
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Who is Better, Udyr or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Udyr usually loses when facing off against Kalista, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Udyr makes a bad counter for Kalista.
While Udyr does have a lower winrate compared to Kalista, when facing one another, Udyr also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Udyr into Kalistaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Udyr has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Udyr vs Kalista matchups, Kalista is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Udyr is a somewhat poor counter to Kalista. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Udyr against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Udyr to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Udyr usually picks up less CS compared to Kalista. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Udyr versus Kalista build include Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Udyr combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Kalista than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Udyr boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when playing against Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Kalista as Udyr, Udyr players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Udyr vs Kalista counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
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