Kalista with Xayah
How to Synergize Kalista and Xayah
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Kalista Xayah Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Xayah Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Kalista Items
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Summoner Spells
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Kalista Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xayah helps Kalista perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is paired with Xayah, she sees a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This may signal that Xayah does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played with Xayah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Xayah.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Xayah on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Xayah does a poor job of covering Kalista in team fights.
Synergies between Kalista and Xayah
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no top ally for Kalista that will always be her top synergy. Yet, Xayah is a terrible teammate for Kalista. By being on the same team as Kalista, she drops their win rate by -9.9% to 37.5%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Kalista and Xayah that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Xayah has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Xayah allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Kalista and Xayah together, you will not be providing your team much utility. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Xayah ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 Xayah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Kalista and Xayah synergy build include Bloodthirster, Runaan's Hurricane, and Wit's End. When Kalista combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Xayah than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kalista had an average win rate of 37.5% helping carry Xayah with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Kalista players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Kalista and Xayah pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 37.5% win rate overall.
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