from EUNE and I love all marksmen + gnar <3. I'm playing league since 2012 but I still learn about this game. I'll give you some tips/advices about Kalista. Maybe she is really hard to master, but after seeing this guide you should know what you're doing. Please give me your feedback to improve my guides :D.

Pros + High mobility + Powerful pick after mastering + One of the best Baron Nashor / Dragon secure + Good 'ulti combo' + Best kiting in game Kalista is one of the best ADC on duoQ. Her Fate's Call can do really good job with smart support (especially if you can communicate). It also can save your support's life as well as you can use it to engage teamfights. She is in my opinion best 'wombo combo' champs (as ADC). She can do incredibly high damage if Rend is used properly.

Cons - Poor early game - Squishy - Even with high mobility - can be caught with gap closers - Hard to master - Only 90% ad converts into auto attack damage She is really hard to play. Her ultimate depends on other person. If that person is tilted or int, it's useless. Her jumps makes her attack speed slower above about 2 as (because of animation).

Bonuses:

• 10% Attack Speed - (can also be additional 5.4 Attack Damage but I prefer attack speed due to Rend)
• 5.4 Attack Damage (adaptive) - some amount of damage that helps killing creeps, fighting and scaling your abilities
• 6 Armor - quite good after buffs, can also be 8 Magic Resists against magic compositions.

Runes:
Hail of Blades - more attack speed for next 3 auto attacks = more burst damage. It's really helps winning early fights. You can use it with Rend to poke enemies - use basic attack on low health minion then attack 3 times champion then 'take out' spears (you'll get mana back, cooldown back).

Sudden Impact - due to Kalista's passive Martial Poise it's best choise here.

Eyeball Collection - I prefer this rune that other 2 because you won't clear as much wards as support ( Zombie Ward) and you won't put this much wards ( Ghost Poro due to Farsight Alteration).

Ravenous Hunter - You won't profit Relentless Hunter and Ingenious Hunter too much and Kalista's spears deal a lot of damage so I take this hunter. Sometimes I take Ultimate Hunter when my team composition is about combo.

Second runes:
Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace - they both make your potential damage higher. I used to use Gathering Storm and Absolute Focus and it wasn't bad at all. I prefer Precision runes when they have better scaling and Sorcery runes when your team composition depends on late game.

Flash For better positioning in teamfights, for escaping, for doing some tricks or just dodge something. Just most useful spell and in my opinion should be taken always.

Heal Heal is primary spell for every ADC, but in meta of everything on bot it isn't the only spell that can be taken. Heal gives you high early potential to win early game. It heals you and your botmate. I think if you don't want to think too much you can take it always. But in some situations it's better to take Barrier or Cleanse.

BARRIER You can take barrier if your support already has taken Heal. It's also good if you know that enemies gonna take a lot of grievous wounds - Ignites, build Morellonomicon, Mortal Reminder, Thornmail, etc.

CLEANSE You can take cleanse if enemies has got early hard cc (like Morgana, Thresh etc.) or that much cc that Mercurial Scimitar isn't enough. If you've taken that ask support if he can take Heal (not necessary if support has healing like Soraka, Sona etc.).

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Rend is our main damage ability and it's must have to max that first. You can use it to secure farm or to slow sometimes. I do max Q Pierce because it gives you some burst and tricky jump. Sentinel helps you to control vision. Your ultimate Fate's Call depends on your teammate so be careful. You can use it as initiate and also as rescue for support (especially good with Tahm Kench and Thresh).

The Black Spear, Doran's Blade and Health Potion Most common start. You gain life steal and some amount of AD to deal higher damage in combats and last hit. Just standard starting set.

Berserker's Greaves Remember to buy these as first item because Kalista's passive - Martial Poise - dash lenght scales with boots tier. That's why it's important to buy berserkers first.

Blade of the Ruined King BotRK is the best first big item to get on Kalista - it gives you attack speed, which is important for Kalista, bonus attack damage and passive that compensates your 10% damage nerf from passive.

Runaan's Hurricane In my opinion without this item it's hard to play Kalista, especially in team fights. After it's rework (this 2 bolts can crit) it's alright item. It also gives more attack speed.

Control Ward For bonus vision and also to clear wards (for example: you can use that when you are doing Dragon to check if there is vision or no).

Farsight Alteration After getting 9th level you should instantly change trinket into this. For adc it's safer and also can check if someone is doing Baron Nashor or Dragon . Don't face check the bush.

Phantom Dancer After it's changes it's better Maw of Malmortius passive, still gives you attack speed, movement speed and crits. I recommend it as mid item cause shield scaling starts after 9th lvl.

Maw of Malmortius Maybe it won't work as 2 other passives with Phantom Dancer but it procs lifesteal and spell vamp. Also it gives you 50 magic resist and some cooldown.

The Bloodthirster The BT in this meta works pretty well. With Blade of the Ruined King you've got over 30% life steal. That is great especially against melee champs that you can kite.

Mercurial Scimitar If you opponents have a lot of crowd control effects you can build it. You should change Bloodthirster or Maw of Malmortius for this one because both gives you lifesteal and ad.

Frozen Mallet Frozen Mallet gives you incredibly high amount of health. This item works well against melee assassins and tanks. Take out Phantom Dancer if you want this one.

Guinsoo's Rageblade After Guinsoo's rework it's kinda better because it now gives you penetration. You don't need to build Last Whisper items with that and also gives you a lot of attack speed.

Guardian Angel Guardian Angel sometimes can really win the game, you can survive assassin's burst and then carry your team. It's just perfect mid/late range item especially against ad assassins or just ad compositions in enemy team that are popular now.

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Match-ups	Synergies
Ashe	Leona

Ashe starting items:

back to the top build changes: -> MORE Ashe isn't that hard match up, but she can harras you with her 600 attack range and her Volley. That's why you should change playstyle into defensive. You won't be able to get profit of Absolute Focus while under 70% health so you have to stay behind minions and watch out if she wants to harras you. You should build Quicksilver Sash after Blade of the Ruined King. Just because of her ultimate Enchanted Crystal Arrow.

Leona

back to the top MORE Leona is pretty good with Kalista, beucase she has so many crowd control to secure her. Also Fate's Call works incredibly well to engage teamfights. Using both ultimates will give you much time to kill opponents/escape etc. Also if Leona can use passive Sunlight properly you can deal a lot of damage.

1. When you are harrasing someone do 1 or more attacks on minion (depends on it's health) because you can use Rend to deal damage to opponent, refund mana and cooldown, also kill that minion.

2. Use Sentinel to control vision. You can check if there is jungler or if enemy team is doing objectives.

3. pirce passes through enemies when it kills it. For example if there is meele minion & caster minion in line and melee minion has low health that Q can kill it, it'll hit also caster and take every spear that you stacked on melee.


1. Use wards. Your support isn't the only person in team that should buy Control Wards. Don't be scare to spend 75 gold, it's about 3 melee minions - it can save you from enemy jungler or roaming midlaner. It's better to spend 75 gold than give 300 gold to enemy and lose farm.