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Thanks for your feedback, however, I don't really get where you're coming from. I have mentioned how to utilize Rend properly in my abilities section and I agree that Rend alongside with Martial Poise are the hardest mechanics for Kalista, and therefore the hardest for a beginner to understand. But I don't get how a player isn't going to understand how Rend as an ability works.
I don't really understand your point of how "they aren't aware of how her E works while dashing". I don't see how a player is not meant to know how Rend works with Martial Poise?. They are two completely separate abilities and don't have any unique interactions, so I don't see how a player is going to think that using Martial Poise is going to interfere with Rend, surely if they just read or watch the videos of her abilities they will understand how to use the ability?
Also, you mention "and while auto attacks are still flying". I do agree that I should mention this and I will add it, however, this is not beginner advice, a beginner has much bigger things to worry about than timing their rend with their autos which is more of an experienced mechanic that you will learn as you play more and more Kalista
The champion is a bit difficult, but I was just thinking of buying her and was searching for guides to get that basic knowledge before I jump in blind. Looking forward on posting the results of my endeavors and adventures with Kalista in near future. Thanks for the good guide, keep up the good work!
Edit: saw someone else discussing this item too but I have to say a ga is not always the most uesful item, frozen mallet can be redundant with how you kite faster than they walk sometimes, and you really don't always need a maw. I understand your view but with someone like taric who has insane peel even when not totally right next to you you can get away with items like this.
A defensive item isn't necessary, I don't think I've ever said it is. 95% of the time a defensive item is needed but there are games which it isn't and you can replace that with another offensive item, however if you do choose to go for no defensive item I don't think Guinsoo's Rageblade is the best option, as you've probably read.
The reason I think that is because a Phantom Dancer is a better alternative. You obviously can't build both Guinsoo's Rageblade and Phantom Dancer (otherwise your way over the attack speed limit with Martial Poise), and from my experience Phantom Dancer is better, here's why;
1. A lot of Guinsoo's Rageblade's attack speed is wasted. When you martial poise there is a limit to how much you can do it, so for example you can't get 2.5 attack speed and Martial Poise like lunatic because there is a cap, so even though Guinsoo's Rageblade gives more attack speed than Phantom Dancer a lot of it is wasted while using Martial Poise. (I'm pretty sure that Phantom Dancer does surpass the attack speed limit, so you definitely don't need more attack speed]]
2. Phantom Dancer does more damage. Although Guinsoo's Rageblade gives you +18 attack damage, that is nowhere near how much you can get from Phantom Dancer's crit, because if you add the Phantom Dancer's crit with Runaan's Hurricane's crit, you get 50%, which is better than Guinsoo's Rageblade's +18 AD, and you also don't have to auto 6 times for it :)
3. It costs 1000 more gold, I mean that's enough said
I could name more points but I don't want to make you read an entire essay so this is it for now if you have any more questions ask them and I'll answer :)
Hopefully, this helped :)
or BT
In the first I started with your build:
It was very good in Early --> Mid game
But lategame was horrible my aa only dealt like 200 dmg
although enemy had less Armour
So I sold items and bought a BT
(talking about the first itembuild)
In the Second :
I was very Strong again
But Dealt way more dmg in mid game and late game
And it just felt good to deal so much dmg with aa and E
Also, it wouldn't work that well with an assassin as they won't want to be engaging a fight as they will most likely be looking for picks or flanks, and with tanks, it might not work as they normally won't need the defensive side of the ult
This is why it is so good with supports, as they shouldn't be in the heart of a fight like a tank, or playing defensive/not engaging like an assassin/mage. Perfect for your ult pretty much :)
So when it comes to passive lanes, you shouldn't really be looking to change that. In some cases, lanes will naturally be passive, if the enemy ADC if playing rather defensive, don't try to rush to kill him, even if they scale well into the late (e.g Vayne). If you do start to get frustrated and be in a rush to kill the enemy, then that gives you more of a chance to engage in an unfavorable fight and end up losing your advantage, or if you didn't have one, it'll just put you behind a lot.
Instead, if the enemy laner is very passive and letting you push the wave, you should focus on trying to deny them farm and poke them as they will have to kill more minions than you or they will take more time to kill the minions so you would have killed the wave before they have killed yours.
So the reason you can poke them, if because they need to focus on farming, and using their auto attacks on killing minion instead of damaging you, so if you have killed the wave and you have nothing else to AA, then if you AA the enemy laner they either have to take the damage and carry on farming, or AA you back but loose CS. Btw, watch out for ganks and roams when pushing as you will obviously be very screwed if you get ganked and you're at the enemy tower.
As for laning against losing matchups, do the exact opposite of what I told you to before. You should freeze the wave so you can farm safely under your tower, because if you don't and you decide to push the wave, a cait and ashe can easily zone you out and freeze the wave for themselves which would deny you a lot of CS. Instead, just make sure that they push the wave and try to get all minions you can without taking damage. Get your jungler to help you out and gank as it will be a guaranteed flash from the enemies, if not a kill.
Hope this helped :)