Zed vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Zed
based on 1,221 Zed vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Kalista
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Zed in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several valuable Zed against Kalista counter statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Zed normally has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Kalista
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Who is Better, Zed or Kalista?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zed usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 51.8% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Zed does have a higher win rate compared to Kalista, when facing one another, Zed also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Zed into Kalistaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Kalista matchups, Zed is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zed is a decent counter for Kalista. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed in order to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Zed versus Kalista build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Kalista than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 51.8% battling Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Kalista as Zed, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Zed vs Kalista clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.8% win rate overall.
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