Kalista with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Kalista and Lee Sin
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Kalista Lee Sin Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Kalista Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Lee Sin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Lee Sin helps Kalista perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista plays on the same team as Lee Sin, she sees a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Lee Sin does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played with Lee Sin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Lee Sin. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Lee Sin.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Lee Sin on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Lee Sin does a decent job of covering Kalista in team fights.
Synergies between Kalista and Lee Sin
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, Lee Sin is a terrible companion for Kalista. By locking into the same team as Kalista, he decreases their win rate by -3.6% to 43.8%. This proves that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Kalista and Lee Sin that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Lee Sin has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Lee Sin comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Kalista and Lee Sin together, you will not be granting your team very much crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Lee Sin ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kalista to synergize with Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Kalista and Lee Sin synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Lee Sin than with many other common builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 43.8% when playing alongside Lee Sin with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.8% win rate overall.
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