Viktor vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Viktor
based on 508 Viktor vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Kalista
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Viktor in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several valuable Viktor against Kalista counter statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Viktor usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Viktor and Kalista
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Who is Better, Viktor or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Viktor usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 55.1% win rate. Thus, Viktor makes a fantastic counter for Kalista.
While Viktor does have a much higher win rate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Viktor also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Viktor into Kalistaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Viktor also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Kalista matchups, Viktor is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Viktor is a great counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Viktor against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Viktor to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically 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, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Viktor versus Kalista build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor used at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Kalista than with many other common builds. In fact, Viktor had an average winrate of 55.1% battling Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Kalista as Viktor, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Viktor vs Kalista counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 55.1% win rate overall.
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