Warwick vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Warwick
based on 1,327 Warwick vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Warwick vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Warwick vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Warwick
Tips for Playing as Warwick against Kalista
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Warwick in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some significant Warwick against Kalista counter stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Warwick usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Kalista. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Warwick and Kalista
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Who is Better, Warwick or Kalista?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Warwick usually wins when playing against Kalista, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Warwick makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Warwick does have a higher win rate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Warwick also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Warwick into Kalista.
Furthermore, Warwick has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Warwick vs Kalista matchups, Warwick is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Warwick is a decent counter to Kalista. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Warwick against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Warwick 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick on average picks up a lot less CS compared to Kalista. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Warwick versus Kalista build consist of Thornmail, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Warwick combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Kalista than with many other common builds. In fact, Warwick had an average winrate of 51.8% battling Kalista with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Kalista as Warwick, Warwick players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Warwick vs Kalista LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.8% win rate overall.
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