Zilean vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Zilean
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Zilean vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Kalista
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Zilean in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some valuable Zilean versus Kalista matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between the two. For instance, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kalista. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Zilean normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kalista. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zilean and Kalista
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Who is Better, Zilean or Kalista?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zilean usually wins when playing against Kalista, with a 52.5% win rate. Therefore, Zilean makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Zilean does have a higher winrate than Kalista, when facing one another, Zilean also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zilean into Kalista.
Additionally, Zilean also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Kalista matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zilean is a good counter for Kalista. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zilean against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zilean in order to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean usually picks up a lot less CS as Kalista. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Zilean versus Kalista build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Kalista than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 52.5% when playing against Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating Kalista as Zilean, Zilean players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Zilean vs Kalista face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kalista as Zilean are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.