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Kalista Build Guides, Runes and Items

Kalista The Spear of Vengeance

Find the best Kalista build guides for League of Legends S14 Patch 14.7. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Kalista build for the S14 meta. Learn more about Kalista's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!

Kalista Build & Runes

If you're looking for the best rune build for Kalista we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Kalista, as determined by calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Kalista this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 14.7. However, if you are a new Kalista player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Kalista!

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Patch 14.7: 33,548 matches scanned * Each section of the build is rated independently of the others

Kalista's Runes

Kalista's Best Runes 46%

Win Rate 50% Pickrate

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Second Best

Kalista's 2nd Best Runes 47%

Win Rate 23% Pickrate

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Third Best

Kalista's 3rd Best Runes 47%

Win Rate 18% Pickrate

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Kalista's Summoner Spells

Kalista's Best Summoner Spells 47%

Win Rate 46% Pickrate

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Second Best

Kalista's 2nd Best Summoner Spells 46%

Win Rate 28% Pickrate

Cleanse Flash

Third Best

Kalista's 3rd Best Summoner Spells 47%

Win Rate 18% Pickrate

Exhaust Flash

Kalista's Starters

Kalista's Best Starter Items 46%

Win Rate 96% Pickrate

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Kalista's Core Items

Kalista's Best Core Items 53%

Win Rate 12% Pickrate

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Kalista's Ability Order

Kalista's Best Ability Order 46%

Win Rate 47% Pickrate

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Kalista Counters

Learn Kalista's counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Kalista guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!


This counter data is for Kalista ADC in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Kalista. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.

Kalista Skins

Kalista's Abilities

Kalista's Martial Poise
Martial Poise Kalista's Passive Kalista's Passive
280
Kalista's Passive
Kalista's Passive
Enter a movement command while winding up Kalista's basic attack or Pierce to lunge a short distance when she launches her attack.

Lunge distance scales with the tier of Boots.

Kalista's basic attacks have unique drawbacks They:
- Cannot be cancelled
- Cannot miss
- Deal only 100% of her total attack damage
Q
Kalista's Pierce
Pierce Kalista's Q Ability
1200
50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
8
Kalista hurls a spear, dealing 20 / 85 / 150 / 215 / 280 (+1.05 per attack damage) physical damage to the first target hit. If this kills the target, the spear continues onward, carrying any Rend stacks to the next target hit.

Kalista can dash after using this ability using Martial Poise.
W
Kalista's Sentinel
Sentinel Kalista's W Ability
5000
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30
Passive: When Kalista and her Oathsworn both attack the same target, she deals 14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18% of target's max health as magic damage. This effect has a 4 second cooldown per target.

Active: Kalista sends a ghost to patrol an area for three laps. Champions spotted are revealed for 4 seconds. This ability has 2 charges.
E
Kalista's Rend
Rend Kalista's E Ability
1100
30
10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8
Passive: Kalista's spears linger in their target for 4 seconds, stacking any number of times.

Active: Kalista rips the spears from nearby enemies, dealing 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 (+20% of ability power) (+0.7 per attack damage) physical damage plus 8 / 12 / 16 / 20 / 24 (+20% of ability power) (+25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45% per attack damage) attack damage as physical damage per spear beyond the first. Slows enemies hit by 10 / 18 / 26 / 34 / 42% (+5% per 100 ability power) for 2 seconds.

If this ability kills at least one target, its cooldown is refreshed and it refunds 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 mana.
R
Kalista's Fate's Call
Fate's Call Kalista's Ultimate (R) Ability
1200
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Kalista puts her Oathsworn into stasis and draws them to herself for up to 4 seconds. The Oathsworn can click to launch themselves, stopping at the first champion hit and knocking back all nearby enemies. If the Oathsworn hits a champion, they are placed at their maximum attack range from it.

Questions About Kalista

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Crits on wierd ADC's

So, for these champions how do crits work? How do Infinity Edge Crits work? I figure for something like a Jinx Rocket Launcher or Senna Relic Cannon Crit, It would take the AD ratio (110 or 120) and just double it (220 or 240). I don't know tho....

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Runes

Lethal Tempol is Good For kalista ?

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Would Devourer stack Kalista's Pierce passive twice?

Kalista jungle probably isn't a good idea, but if you can stack spears faster, that would be pretty strong.

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Where is the Passive Target assist on Kalista?

Kalista's jump used to show you where you were headed. I don't know exactly when it stopped, but it's just gone now. I reset everything on my side, but it was still gone. I didn't see anything in the patch notes about it though. Am I missing...

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Runaan's Hurricane seems like a no-brainer on Teemo and Kalista....

So why do barely any guides say to use it? It makes both these champions much more effective (E stacks for Kalista, poisoning 3 targets at once with Teemo). Is there some reason why it's not as good as I think on these champs? Because right now I...

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How is Runaan's Hurricane viable on Kalista?

The past few games I've played with and against a few [[kalista]]s, and all of them rushed [[runaan's hurricane]] as their first or second item. Someone told me it's the best item on her since its applies [[rend]]. I'm a tad confused on the logic...

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First Item on Kalista?

Hey guys, I was wondering what you were building first on Kalista. I have seen rushed IEs, BotrKs and even Boots. I am currently sticking with BotrK but most guides say lifesteal isnt good on her.... I really like BotrK because of the %...

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