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Kalista Guide

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I'm a Diamond main AD Carry. I have been maining AD Carry since I began to play League Of Legends.
I tried out many champions, roles and builds, but I never found a main champ.
When Kalista came out I fell in love with her due to her awesome playstyle and strength.
Pros / Cons
Pros
+ Awesome kiting and chasing
+ You can save your support with http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/ability/fates-call-693 (even he is in heavy CC like Galio's Ultimate)
+ Heavy for enemys to chase you!
+ Easy farming using http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/ability/rend-692
+ Very mobile
+ Strong mid and lategame
Cons
- Pretty squishy.
- Requires skill and experience
- Weak early:
Level 1 Pretty hard
Level 2-5: Playable (Little powerspike if you have skilled http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/ability/sentinel-691)
Level 6-13: Strong
Level 14-18: Very Strong
- Kalista is not a 1vs1 Champion. Only fight with your Support, Jungler, or your whole team.
Items
#1 My normal build order is:
http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/blade-of-the-ruined-king-145 ➤ http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/berserkers-greaves-37 ➤ http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/runaans-hurricane-161 ➤ http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/the-bloodthirster-60 ➤ http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/last-whisper-48
I can't recommend http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/runaans-hurricane-161 first anymore, because there are too many better opportunities at the moment. The standart build should be like above (or http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/the-bloodthirster-60 first as you can see in the build order below).
Matchups you should use this build (on botlane): Nautilus, Braum, Alistar, Leona Support.
#2 Current famous build order:
http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/the-bloodthirster-60 ➤ http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/berserkers-greaves-37 ➤ http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/runaans-hurricane-161 ➤ http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/blade-of-the-ruined-king-145 ➤ http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/last-whisper-48
http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/the-bloodthirster-60 is a very good item for sustain and lots of damage. If you can buy http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/b-f-sword-17 on your first back, it's a very huge powerspike for you. Negative on this this order is, that you don't have much attack speed. Try to finish your full boots early (but not too early, build it after http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/b-f-sword-17 and http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/vampiric-scepter-22).
After http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/the-bloodthirster-60 go for http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/runaans-hurricane-161 for enough attack speed, then rush http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/blade-of-the-ruined-king-145 into http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/last-whisper-48. After that, just choose a last item from the list above. (I recommend you a defensive item like http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/banshees-veil-76 or http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/mercurial-scimitar-154
➤ Explanation:
As you can see http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/runaans-hurricane-161, http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/blade-of-the-ruined-king-145, http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/the-bloodthirster-60 and http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/last-whisper-48 are the core items on Kalista. The build order is depending on the situation and can be changed whenever you want, e.g. versus a very tanky team you can build http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/blade-of-the-ruined-king-145 ➤ http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/runaans-hurricane-161 ➤ http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/last-whisper-48 ➤ http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/the-bloodthirster-60, too. You just have to try out some different orders to decide which is the best for you and the situation.
I cannot recommend you any longer the "Runaan's First" or "Korean Build" build.
REMEMBER, that your jump range increases with your boots tier! [Tiers are: No boots -> Normal boots (http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/boots-of-speed-1) -> Full Boots (http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/berserkers-greaves-37)]
Switch your trinket from http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/warding-totem-188 to http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/scrying-orb-189 when the lane phase ends OR if you hit level 9, because the scrying orb gets more range on this level. In addition the http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/scrying-orb-189 gives you control over dragons and barons.
To finish up the build, I normally buy one of these items:
http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/banshees-veil-76 Fantastic magic resist item with a spell shield. Good against burst champions like http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/champion/ahri-89 or http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/champion/leblanc-63. (or http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/champion/blitzcrank-34's http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/ability/rocket-grab-168 as well)
http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/guardian-angel-43 Best Item for getting resistance for teamfights. In addition the enemy team won't focus you "that much" (you are still focussed, care!), because trading your GA for 1 (or more) kill(s) for your team is not worth it!
http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/mercurial-scimitar-154 A must have item if the enemys have heavy CC for you in fights. A http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/quicksilver-sash-94 is a great choice in the early or mid game to avoid CC and in the endgame if you upgraded it to the http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/mercurial-scimitar-154, you will get lots of AD as well (+80 AD!)
http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/frozen-mallet-41 Awesome item for chasing and kiting. The slow is very strong on Kalista. Even thought it gives you only 30 AD, it gives you freaking 700 HP, which makes you (+ your awesome lifesteal) very tanky and you can survive much more longer in teamfights.
http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/maw-of-malmortius-136 If you need magic resist, but you want also more damage this item is great. I recommend you to only buy this item if you are ahead and don't need more health or so. (http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/banshees-veil-76 could be better in lots of situations). http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/maw-of-malmortius-136 also gives you a shield which absorbs 400 magic damage for 5 seconds (90 seconds cooldown). In addition it gains +1 attack damage for every 2% of your maximim health you are missing.
http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/zephyr-172 This is an alternative item if you do not want to build a defensive item. It has an awesome kiting potential, more damage and a bit cooldown reduction! Build it as last item instead of a defensive item if you are very fed and cannot be killed very easily. But all in all, I would recommend you a defensive item.
I cannot recommend youhttp://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/infinity-edge-46orhttp://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/item/youmuus-ghostblade-101anylonger, because of the AD nerfs in Patch 5.13.
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