Kalista with Brand
How to Synergize Kalista and Brand
based on 1,733 Kalista with Brand pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kalista Brand Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Brand
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Brand
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.
Advice to Understand How Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Kalista Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kalista sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Brand helps Kalista perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kalista is an ally to Brand, she observes a little drop in her full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Brand doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played together with Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Brand.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Brand on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Brand does a poor job of covering Kalista during teamfights.
Synergies between Kalista and Brand
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Brand?
There is no perfect ally for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her top ally. However, overall, Brand is a superb companion for Kalista. By playing on the same side as Kalista, he improves their win rate by 3.2% to 50.6%. This demonstrates that there is an important strategic relationship between Kalista and Brand that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be cautious when finding Brand comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Kalista and Brand together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough protection for burst damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Brand ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to work well with Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Kalista and Brand synergy build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kalista used at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Brand than with most other common builds. In fact, Kalista had an average win rate of 50.6% when playing alongside Brand with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Kalista players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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