Vladimir vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Vladimir
based on 1,022 Vladimir vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vladimir vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Vladimir vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Vladimir against Kalista
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Vladimir in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some important Vladimir versus Kalista counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champions. Vladimir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vladimir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista..
Vladimir typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Kalista. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vladimir and Kalista
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Who is Better, Vladimir or Kalista?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vladimir usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 54.6% win rate. As a result, Vladimir makes a great counter to Kalista.
While Vladimir does have a much higher winrate compared to Kalista, when facing one another, Vladimir also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Vladimir into Kalistaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vladimir has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vladimir vs Kalista matchups, Vladimir is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Vladimir is a great counter to Kalista. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vladimir against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vladimir in order to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vladimir often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Kalista. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Vladimir versus Kalista build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Vladimir included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Kalista than with many other common item sets. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average winrate of 54.6% battling Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Kalista as Vladimir, Vladimir players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Vladimir vs Kalista counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.6% winrate overall.
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