Ahri with Kalista
How to Synergize Ahri and Kalista
based on 982 Ahri with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ahri Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Ahri vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ahri and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Ahri with Kalista
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Advice to Understand How Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Ahri Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Ahri in LoL
The Ahri Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ahri sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kalista. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kalista helps Ahri perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ahri plays on the same team as Kalista, she observes a small decrease in her complete damage output. This may signal that Kalista does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Ahri is played together with Kalista on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kalista.
Moreover, when Ahri plays with Kalista on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Kalista does a decent job of protecting Ahri during teamfights.
Synergies between Ahri and Kalista
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Is Ahri better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no perfect synergy for Ahri that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. However, Kalista is a very bad ally for Ahri. By locking into the same team as Ahri, she decreases their win rate by -5.7% to 42.5%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Ahri and Kalista that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kalista has a greater difficulty than Ahri. That means you must be careful when finding Kalista comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Ahri and Kalista together, you may not be giving your other allies enough tankyness. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Kalista ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to work well with Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Ahri and Kalista synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Kalista than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 42.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 42.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Kalista with Ahri are given for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.