Why NO ONE Plays: Kalista | League of Legends 

Ok you know what this series is making me play all these champions I mean you present them in such a way that I genuinely wana to try them which I never wanted before so u know what thank you you are doing a great job

Reminder that Kalista partnering with a Volibear is effectively Annie.

Damn whoever this No One guy is he really do be playing lots of champs.

Because getting exhausted on Kalista is 10x worse than on a normal carry.

Me, who's a kalista main: "What do you mean nobody plays ;-;" Also me, the hard feeder: "aye, fair enough"

Kalista may be hard to play, but u'll never get bored with all those dashes.

Kalista idea : indication bar when you’re able to execute them based on spears

You forgot to mention one of her most important problems: As soon as she gets slowed she is not a champion anymore. Due to her unique passive she not only loses mobility - she also loses attackspeed (since an attack is done inbetween dashes and dashes have a longer windup when slowed). As of right now almost every champion in the league either has a slow or builds an item that has a slow

I need a video called "Why everyone plays: League of Legends" and it to start like "I dont f*****g know why". Either way great video, continue like this!

When my mate plays kalista and when I am his support, I am usually playing Malphite, Its fun to have two Ults XD

No One Plays: Kalisat No One Plays:Heimer No One Plays: Teemo No One Plays: Poppy No One Plays: Yorick My name is: No One

(Long comment from a Kalista main) I'm a Kalista main since season 6. When I decided to pick her up I was still pretty bad at the game but what attracted me to her was her insane kiting passive. That constant movement while attacking was really satisfying for me and I gave it enough time to master it. Also the theme of placing your trust to someone in order to use your R and utilize a little synergy (W mark passive) felt appealing to me. Kalista is broken indeed, if she had similar power to other adcs she'd be too op. So to compensate she got really high damage tools and utility for the team. She can be played top using only 2 of her abilities (Q,E) and still be sucessful. Her Pierce passing stacks of spears is an extremely hard mechanic to utilize and it took me years to even make consistent use of it. Passing stacks from a minion/monster is simpler now but from champion to champion is very rare to happen. I have no trouble calculating my Rend damage and the fact that it's hard to stack more than 10-20 spears is false, against a tank as long as you're positioning correctly with your team you'll stack as many spears as needed to kill anyone. My perspective is when someone goes to 30% hp or less they'll probably die, the factors being their armor/hp and how many spears I stacked on them. I grew to really hate slows due to her movement/atk speed passive being affected by it. A change I'd like would be her distance dashed to be reduced when slowed instead of messing up her attack speed as a whole. Overall Kalista is generally weak due to having such insane tools which give her a very strong early-mid game alone. Despite all that I found success and enjoyment from her and she'll always remain as my number 1 pick. I wish they treated her new Marauder skin better and changed the colors of the spears on chromas, that's a big letdown for all of the Kalista players.

TL;DR: Playing Kalista is a chore. As a Kalista main I can confirm that every ADC main wants to be the MVP and she has the unique playstyle that allows the outplays for that to happen. But you can do an even better job with half the effort by using literally every single other ADC. She is a champion that requires perfection, full concentration, a clear mind to have good decision making and fast reaction speed for the entire game. This makes Kalista to feel like she is a project with a tight deadline.

Kalista: I'm becoming useless because everyone else is becoming faster! Teemo: First time?

The only time i've seen Kalista is when my friend plays her. I have never seen her in solo q.

The reason I main Kalista is bc she’s fun. Her kit is rly unique and you need to play around the jumping thing... also, I love getting carpal tunnel while playing her.

There's another big think you forgot to mention about her, because her movement and her attacks are tied into each other in combat, slows and attack speed slows do the same thing. So you are essentially getting double debuffed every single time one of those hits you.

I love Kalista's way of changing how her basic attack works. I find adcs who do that uniquely are better designed overall tbh.

Anyone who plays this character already knows why FOR IT LITERALLY DEMANDS YOU TO DUO QUE OR DONT PLAY AT ALL

i’ve been thinking about getting this champ too, what a stroke of luck for this to pop in my feed.

it feels like stridebreaker was literally meant to counter kalista, you could be a 7/2 kali with 3 items but if you get hit by the 0/6 darius' strikebreaker its lights out.

Tried her a few weeks ago. Seemed pretty damn fun. Gotta buy her now that her BE price got lowered with Viego's release.

Not gonna lie... I legit forgot kalista was a champion. I haven't been in a single.match with her since before preseason 10.

hey man, ive discovered this channel some days ago and i been watching your videos non stop, keep up the great content, you deserve more atention

I just picked her up today after my friend convinced me to give her a try after expressing interest in her, and ya she's hard, but she's also the most fun I've had on an ADC in a long time. She can get away some some nutty stuff in lane. I have comms with my duo who supports me and my kalista with her aggressive support style turned out to be an incredible combination. She's just so fun to play and fight with in lane. I've only played a few games on her so far but I think I'm gonna make her my main ADC when I duo, she's just so damn fun.

Kalista is the hardest champion in the game. Me as a horrible Azir player - really now? Good video by the way.

man you put so much work into these videos - very well researched and edited

I saw your video about kayle and i instantlly fell in love with this series. good job :^D

she looked cool. she had nice abilities. I fell in love with her.

I started playing kalista about a month ago and she is one of my favorite adc's. I love the way she can outplay people and I feel that I can master her. It's a challenge that I'm willing to take and a champion I enjoy.

I played a lot of lesser played champions because it seems like they always teach you something that you can use later on; Lillia taught me how to dodge and kite. Zilean taught me how to measure risks and to check items bought. Teemo taught me setup and positioning. And now Kalista shall teach me how to use the Attack-Move command. Wish me luck in my coming loss streak.

I’ve been WAITING FOR THIS ONE!

Great to see this video doing really well!

Really love the fire emblem music you put in some of these videos.

i love that u used the TL tactical outplay in this video

I remember playing her once like 2 years ago and not even considering her since but this video has reawakened the idea as it reminded me that she is a very satisfying champ but just isn't strong enough especially on her own

simple answer : riot kept nerfing her

i cant believe they nerfed kalista to the ground... kalista used to be able to kite nasus out, now.... um...

Thank you for your work.

been enjoying kalista so much when you have some items shes insanely fun. i also find that making your top laner the oathsworn is so much better

I'm just unhealthily addicted to her visual aesthetic

i think they should give her multiple uses of her starting spear, so she can choose to bind it onto a different ally later. it would make the dependency on the support a lot less in solo queue, and wouldn't make her too op because you couldn't change it quickly in a team fight because of the time it takes to bind to the ally.

Hey this video was amazing and very in depth. Could you do a video on Qiyana?

not a kalista main per se, but ive played her a couple times and i really like playing her. i just decided to try her out one day because she was in the free rotation, and i just fell in love. her unique playstyle and kiting is very appealing to me, and her autoattacks feel good.

Nice video and 3 Houses music.

I’ve only just found your content a week ago and have been binging it since! I’ve always wondered why I, as a Gnar main, have never seen another Gnar out there...like literally ever. Could you possibly do a video on him sometime?

Idk who no one is but why is he playing so many champs ?

I was so curious if you had a WHY NO ONE PLAYS video for neeko since i main her but sadly couldn't find anything :( . It seems so rare to find anyone playing her and i don't understand why. I hope we see one soon. Keep the good content and much love

Been kinda binging this series especially as a noob to this game. Really want to find a main and this vids are helpful and entertaining.

In the right hands she can be a killer machine. I remember when she once carries her team in one of my games it was wild

if everyone got mobility buffs- she's been getting hop nerfs since release. revert the backward hop nerf, and make slows a bit less punishing to her hops . nasus w just exhausts her, literally

dude i watched your maplestory videos a long time ago when those were the videos you would make. I was shocked when i found out it was u lol

Good stuff

Ah man, loved the last one, dang, hate to see it on one of my favorite ADC's

I feel like a significant portion of what makes Kalista hard to improve on is how many decisions contribute to a single fight. On a champion like Swain for instance, it's really easy to analyze a fight and be like 'ok, I needed to hit e' or 'this fight is won as long as I flash jinx r'. Most champions in this game have a very small list of easily apparent (in hindsight) win conditions within skirmishes. Champions like Irelia are a bit more complicated, where each minion q can be thought of as a resource in a fight, and so deciding how best to use that resource adds to the skill expression of the champion, because each q represents a decision that is being made. With Kalista however, each and every single auto attack represents a decision being made. autoing away from an opponent gives you space, however by doing so you are opening yourself up to getting hit by skillshots, and autoing perpendicular to your opponent has the opposite trade off. Especially late game, your auto target also begins to matter, since autoing a minion can let you reset your e mid fight to slow the opponent and give you an edge, an incredibly important skill. You also need to be proficient in using your e reset along with your q while also paying attention to your hop. Every single auto attack on Kalista, especially late game, holds the same weight of micro-decision making that most champions input into a whole fight. Every fight you are making 10s, if not hundreds of small decisions that tip the scales one way or the other. The other issue has to do with rank. The vast majority of low elo (for the sake of argument, iron to mid gold) don't regularly use their auto attack move command, something that is basically mandatory to pull off the vast majority of the mechanics REQUIRED to make Kalista work. Using your e resets properly, q'ing the opponent on your e resets to buff the dmg and slow, getting the rhythm to jump in the right direction while doing so, and being able to harass your opponent using quick trades in lane, are all practically impossible to do consistently without using your auto attack command. High elo players generally use it, but by the time you reach high elo, the effort to go back and learn a champion with a completely different playstyle to the ones that got you to your elo in the first place, and one you will inevitably feed on for a little, is a heavy order. For those of us who pick her up in low elo, many players will have to learn to use their A-click before they really progress, and even then it will still be a bit of feeding before she becomes a reliable pick for the elo you are in. With all this being said I have always fundamentally disagreed with the assertion that Kalista is a weak champ, or one with balancing issues, because I've never really thought that was the case. She just has a demanding skill curve, and has specific difficulties that make picking her up hard to justify for most players, and while I love seeing new Kalista players, I don't think low playrates should ever fundamentally be seen as a problem. Kalista will probably always remain a champion that is a decent pick if you know what you're doing, but one that is hard to pick up and rare to see, and as a Kalista main myself I don't really have a problem with this. She is still strong in the right hands, and for those of us who absolutely adore a playstyle that gives you basically infinite micro-decisions to make, she is amazing to play. Unfortunately that means riot never gives us quality skins though lol TLDR: Kalista's playrate is so low because of the sheer number of micro-decisions made in fights, the necessity of auto attack commands, the necessity of understanding when you can use your rend and q to give you an advantage, and because riot gave us our first skin in literally years and it's one of the lowest quality skins they've put out in recent history. Also, I'm currently in high plat, and sitting at about 600k mastery, for those who are interested.

Kalista needs: Attack move that only targets champions and her oathsworn mechanic to be reworked out because fuck that. Her Passive and E are insanely fun for me to use and her Q is cool too, but it's so heavily bogged down ;(

I've been having moderate success with her in the jungle of all things. I was trolling at first but I may have found something. Early vision from your w is amazing in spotting out suspect enemy jungle positions and preventing ganks since people don't listen to your pings. You do 15% max hp if you're ganking your marked lane. You can also reposition your duo during team fights to get into the face of their squishies.

I put 100k Points in her after playing her non-stop trying to make her work, but after playing with other Meta adcs I just don't see a situation where she could be useful anymore. She has 0 escape her range is abysmal and even if you get ahead if you're team doesn't work together to end the game before 30 minutes she just falls off really hard and that is just the problems I had on my grind off the top of my head.

everytime I saw a new episode of this collection, I came up with a video in my mind, a super short version why no one play kalista: hopping is game breaking, she thus nerfed to ground.

at 2:00 because jinx passive was about being excited! and we know jinx's character. she's loud.

People who commonly went 2/12 with any hero were getting pentakills and going 10/1 with launch Vayne.

I started to OTP kalista at the start of the new season ( a little before) , I like it, even if it s hard to play or win lane when your support doesn't know your champ...

When I started playing league one of the first champions I played was kalista, and 3 years ago the internet in my country was very slow so I usually played alone in the ADC role, I usually only maxed e and q since my supports would leave a few minutes into the gane

Very good video

Oh Yayy I Cant Wait

Change her w so it gives her a camouflage for a short duration like senna with out giving it to teamates that is, and not close to as long of an duration, enemys could see where you are, but not target you with out geting quite close (a bit longer then melee range) this would only last for 1,5-2 seconds and have lets say 15 second cooldown that resets on kills. she should be able to continue autoing with out get revealed while this effect is active. and they should make her autos follow into bushes.

Kalista dashing after every auto is soo great and then u auto dash q dash u can make so much distance then e shred anything

Lol I just started playing Kalista 3 days ago so great timing.

Two of my favorite ADCs of all time are Kalista and Aphelios but it's super hard to enjoy them in solo queue and I have no friends to play league with

She’s a hidden OP gem if you’re amazing at her. Keep her as is, don’t touch my baby

As a adc main(play almost adc role only and all adc champ champs) Kalista need a huge buff like a man want a water in a dessert. First make passive a bit longer and faster jumps. Make low cd on Q buff damage on Q and E. And make her playstyle if she play without Oath. Because she uncompetitively capable with all adc, and don't forget she have -10% damage from aa and your aa will missed if you lost vision

a long time a go i've opened a reddit post where i tried to discuss about putting a sort of fear on her (i had this idea by re-reading her lore). You told it in this video there are only few people that use her R corrcly and the other ones put them selfs in such a bad position that makes lose the teamfight AND the game

Great video, some attention to the blue to the favorite blue balance nightmare in the game is always appreciated. Regarding ideas to maybe make her more easily balanced the make her Ult independent of ally presence and maybe change her W passive so that her ally slow her target instead off dealing more damage and maybe remove the "Attacks only scale with 90% AD" to make her damage more consistent

So much plays kalista. In the games I play.

I do thrive with kalista, she's my autofill go to adc, it really helps people underestimate her dmg

tbh, I played kalista before they changed her W passive to damage instead of attack speed. It was nice to have some extra attack speed in the start of the game when near to your support that could also buff your autos like janna, lulu and others. Miss the good old first bloods with her ToT

Love the fire emblem music

The biggest issue is the insane attack speed slow when she is slowed. Not only does it reduce your mobility but with literally every champ having cc and slows now (items included) you’re not able to do damage if you can’t auto

I think one of the best changes that can be made to kalista without being super over powered is the fact that your W passive and ult can be used with anyone on your team and not just your Aly.

i remember the first time i got ulted by a kalista, i had absolutely no idea what was going on lol

An idea for Oathsworn is to make more flexible where she doesn't have to rely on one specific character to be next to her the whole time, or allow her to use any ally unit like a minion (I know it's a stretch but it could lead to interesting ideas), and give her some form of utility like a teleport or camoflauge.

I feel like an easy fix would be to have her also linked with her w so youd get the proc from it but also be able to ult with it

after the new items and changes she feels so good now!!

i play most of the champions u make vids u make and i rly agree with u

Holy shit that braum He just died. There was no sound, no warning. He just died

I main her bc i just love the movement and how aggressive u can play her

Honestly, I think a good buff for her is to make her w dive toward enemies that use mobility and stun them. It would make it more powerful and if you let her proc her passive off summoning the sentinel it could offer counterplay to items like gale or stridebreaker

Hello ! I'm a Kalista main since the champ has been introduced to the game. I love kalista for a kit for sure (even tho her kit makes it unbalancable). It gives an infinite amout of possibilities during fight. For example if you are forced to focus a fed tank because the backline has too many cc's or whatever situation where you are zoned : focusing the tank can be good as you can Q+E to potentially anhilate 1 person in the back line. To me there is a lot of way of building kalista to make it fun or adaptable to many teams and your skill is the limit (or cc's xd). To me Kalista feels like an unending challenge, you can always improve, a fight you've done could potentially have gone better if u stepped one time on the left at this specific time. I don't know if this helped you to understant why we or I love kalista. It's just an incredible champ to me (chara design, how refreshing and new her kit was, the synergy it makes with your beloved support). Please love Kalista. "Our task is unending"

Kalista + Morg is super good. You ult morg into the enemy team then she ults and stopwatch and watch the chaos take progress

Is Rek'sai going to be an upcoming champ on this series? I feel like the champ is basically nonexistent in low elo and draft and the small amount of people that play the champ are in high elo.

I've always thought that kalista would be a cool champ where her rend was her ult and she gets stacks on people by like cc them or somthing and her oathsworn can help her with that and then her ult is like a execute that can reset with each kill. Basically just bottom lane darius

Love the video ❤️ Would you make a video about Quinn please? I am playing her right Now and she's pretty Fun to me, but nobody plays her. I Wonder why. Thank you

I was playing her since 9.15 until the end of s10 got almost a million mastery points and name Mia Kalista, she was a beautiful solo lane. But s11 removed Frozen Mallet and this is the only think that stopping me from playing her again.

3:43 that neeko ult tho

I'm a kalista main. A strong , independent kalista that can indeed make good use of her . I started playing her because she is so GODAMN fun that It Ended Up being One of my favourites. I really love to start playing her and I like hard champs , that's why I main her

I picked kalista up ages ago and didn't get good with her until recently, and most people think ult is nice when throwing in but nobody really knows how it works, so I mostly just use it to save my team mate

While I do quite enjoy Kalista, a large part of any success I find on her can be attributed to a frien of mine who happens to be a support main.

I think she needs a rework. She has a beautifully designed main skin. It would be a waste not to see her a lot in solo que.

I played kalista for a week straight and I'm still recovering from the carpal tunnel she gave me

wouldn't say that kalista is the most difficult champion to play, but she definitely demands more concentration to play than other champs. she's hella fun especially with the right supports to compliment you