Xayah vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Xayah
based on 569 Xayah vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Xayah vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Kalista
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Xayah in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several critical Xayah against Kalista matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences between the two. Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kalista..
Xayah usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xayah and Kalista
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Who is Better, Xayah or Kalista?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xayah usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Xayah makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Xayah does have a higher winrate than Kalista, when facing one another, Xayah also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Xayah into Kalista.
Moreover, Xayah has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Kalista matchups, Xayah is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Xayah is a good counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Xayah against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xayah to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah often gets a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Xayah versus Kalista build consist of Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Kalista than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Xayah boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when playing against Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Kalista as Xayah, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Xayah vs Kalista counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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