Why Hail of Blades? Im assuming you're wondering. Well, remember Kalista is all about stacking AS MANY SPEARS AS POSSIBLE IN AS LITTLE TIME AS POSSIBLE. HoB gives you a quick 3 spears almost instantly. This is a LANE PHASE rune, it's one of the premiere trading runes in the game and it's no different on Lista. 3 quick autos into a Rend reset is why she's a great lane bully.

Taste of blood is mainly here because she cant actually utilize the other 2 well. This makes her trading even better, ensuring that you have a higher chance of winning from the life steal.

Eyeball Collection when fully stacked gives you 12 EXTRA AD to your base stats. This adds up and Kalista is a LANE BULLY and an early game oriented champ. S this is easy to stack considering you're supposed to be winning lane with her.

Kalista's ultimate ability is truly everything to her. When this isnt up in the mid game, unelss you're HYPER fed, you shouldnt be looking for fights. This can make or break winning or losing a game, this ult is VERY impactful.

Triumph is great because Kalista honestly is a momentum based character. You wanna snowball your early game by getting kill after kill, yea? This helps. Extra gold from each kill and health regen to ensure you can look for more.

REMEMBER. Kalista LOVES attack speed because as I said, her goal is throw as many spears as possible. This is obviously a must have for the most part. Built in extra attack speed is great on her.

Ah. Cait is definitely the worst matchup, would either advise banning her or picking someone else if you play Kalista. She outranges the HELL out of you at 650 AA range. Her net is a self peel tool, so when you try to play aggro, she can just E back and get a guaranteed head shot. On top of all of this, she out pokes for the most part if shes not really bad and she outscales you by a mile. Best thing you can do if you get counter picked as lista is survive till 6 and engage on her with Fate's Call.

Again, just like Cait, but this one has an AD steroid. You can never trade with this guy unless your support hits hard cc, he'll always beat you in trades if you dont get enough spears in him in time. He can E you out of your passive hops and he's overall a better lane bully. Avoid this guy.

So, if the Aphelios player is actually good (rare), this matchup is hell. From the first to guns to the 3rd, he shits on you. He has sustain with Red, outranges you with Green and can stun you out of your passive with purple. His one downside is his lack of moblitity. Avoid fighting him when he has Red/White gun combo and try to survive till level 6 unless he over extends.

Ashe freakin' SUCKS for Kalista, this is easily my least favorite matchup for the Spirit of Vengeance. All of her autos are slows so your passive hops slower, your mobility is completely irrelevant in this matchup. Which is basically Kalista as a champ. She really has everything to destroy Kalista. When lista is looking to engage she can just R you and set up an engage for her support. She's REALLY hard to beat.

Again, no mobility on her though. Try to survive till 6 and look for over extensions.

So, Trist is a must have exhaust lane. If she ever has bomb up, you really cant contend. The key here is to wait till she jumps on to you and then instant exhaust her then start kiting her out and CC chaining her with your support with their abilities and your ult.

Lucian is similar to Draven. Out damages and bursts you as well as outscales you. Really rough, BUT he has a high chance of missing his Q early game because of your passive, which is a good chunk of his damage.

When he dashes past the creeps to trade with you, instant exhaust him and go to town on him, then his only escape is to flash. Use your R to chase.

MF is a pretty rough one for Kalista, she can get pretty easy Q set ups because your low range and her poke is guaranteed with E + Comet combo. If you can sustain till 6, you'll stomp her.

Vayne is really iffy. You can bully her, but she can also bully you. Try to poke her out with Q+E combo and hope your support is good at hitting CC abilities as this is how you really shut down Vayne.

You can trade with her equally for the most part and sometimes even out trade her if you play your cards right. You can really shit on her at level 6 because of your ult but she obviously out scales you so, make sure to stomp her.

Instant burst versus burst overtime. Thats the story of this matchup. Samira is going to wanna engage with E (her dash) often, so be ready for anything and kite her. Save rend until you have multiple spears in her, and rend when she's ulting, its your best bet, in early game, she takes a little bit of time to stack her passive to S rank. Take advantage of that. You guys both itemize life steal but your poke is WAY better than hers! She out scales so, try to stomp her.

Koggy is medicore honestly. The best advice i can give in this matchup is, when he uses his W, wait it out, give one or two CS, its not the end of the world, then walk back up and proceed to bully him back.

He has no escape, probably the most immobile adc in the whole game. You can hit easy Q>E combos on him all lane, widdle him down, hit level 6 then all in.

Kai'Sa is not difficult for Kai'Sa, she has weak early game and has the same AA range as Kalista. Fight her in your creeps as her Q does less damage to you. She has no dash so look to do Q>E combo for poke on her often.

Be careful of her level 6 as its an engage tool and a shield, other than that, you HARD stomp this lane as long as you play smart. She HARD out scales though so be careful!

Now, take this with a grain of salt as I havent played into Zeri more than once with Kalista, but it didnt feel awful whatsoever, you can dodge her Q with your passive and look to harass her with Q when she walks up to Q the wave.

Try to kite out her ult until it runs out. You guys both build HP items but she out scales.

Xayah is really iffy for me. I almost put her in the "Hard" category as she's more of a skill matchup than anything. Pay attention to her feathers and try to bait out her W and E abilites. If those are down, look to all in/trade with her. Xayah SHOULD NEVER be able to hit you with a feather recall because of your passive, so she'll probably be looking to Flash E, be ready for it. Apart from that, be careful of her level 6 and she hard out scales.

Look I know Jinx is the big bad meta ADC right now, but trust me, Kalista really can rip her a new one. She has no mobility and her range isnt that much of an issue early game. Considering you're rushing Tier 2 Boots first every single game on this champ. She really cant run from you no matter what. Combine that with your rend slow and your R at level 6. She's basically a sitting duck. Use Q+E poke combo a lot her to deal with her range.

She out scales you but you should be able to just stomp her easily.

The only reason twitch is in Even is because his venom cask really screws your passive. Apart from that, unless he's paired with Yuumi/Lulu, you can really destroy this champ. If he trys to uncloak on you, insta exhaust and shred him. He hard out scales obviously so look to stomp.

Jhin is a really braindead lane, you can turn of your brain and stomp him. Im serious. He can NEVER trade with you. Use HoB for 3 quick autos into rend cancelling on the minion then chase him down.

Sivir is just Sivir man. This poor champ, just use your passive to dodge her Q and its over. Buff Sivir Riot for the love of god.

Ezreal gets destroyed by Kalista for one sole reason, her passive. How does he his you consistently? He doesnt. Look to all in him at 6 if he over extends cause even if he E's away, your ult will reach most of the time.

You can just dodge all of this champs abilites, his Q, his ult. The only one thats semi-annoying is his E cause it slows your passive hops. Apart from that, take cleanse if you're really that worried.

When you think of Kalista synergy. Thresh should be the first champ to come to mind, this is the OG safe lane bully combo. They help each other escape with Fate's Call and Lantern. This champion provides pretty much everything Kalista wants from Hard CC with hook, safety with his W and front line from being a tank. When he lands hook, you can insta R and then he goes out, Flays, boxes and boom. Instant kill.

Its really hard to set up a gank on this duo because of how safe they are as well.

Braum! My overall favorite support in the game to play with as anybody, but he works especially well with Kalista. Not only do you pop his passive INSTANTLY with Hail of Blades but he jumps in front of you and shields you while you're kiting the hell out of the enemy team. He provides some of the MOST peel in the entire game. Which is what Kalista needs to dish out those spears!

Leona is amazing. She doesnt allow people to play the game to put frankly. She uses E>Q>R and then you press R, and its a guaranteed kill, the best part is, all of its HARD CC.

This is a crazy good kill lane and its sure to give you a big lead when playing lista!

Naut is similar to Leona, he doesn't let people play the game! Your CC chain with him is great and he keeps people locked down FOREVER, so you can easily stack multiple spears. It's also another safe lane as he can hook himself to a wall out of dire situations.

Alistar is another classic support with Kalista. Its simple, he hard enages, you follow. Or, you press R and THEN he hard engages, this a crazy good lane bully duo and can put up a fight with just about any bot duo i can think of!

Rell is a newcomer for Kalista, but she works wonderful! She provides Rell with safety using Fate's Call and the CC chain from using your R for her engage is great! This a great combo to utilize.