Vi vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Vi
based on 941 Vi vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vi vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Vi vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Vi
Tips for Playing as Vi against Kalista
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Vi in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some valuable Vi against Kalista counter stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. Vi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Vi usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives more damage than Kalista. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vi and Kalista
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Who is Better, Vi or Kalista?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vi usually wins when playing against Kalista, with a 54.4% win rate. Therefore, Vi makes a great counter for Kalista.
While Vi does have a much higher win rate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Vi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vi into Kalista.
Furthermore, Vi also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vi vs Kalista matchups, Vi is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Vi is a great counter to Kalista. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vi against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vi in order to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vi on average accumulates a lot less CS as Kalista. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Vi versus Kalista build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Vi included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Kalista than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vi boasted an average winrate of 54.4% when countering Kalista with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Kalista as Vi, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vi vs Kalista LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.4% win rate overall.
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