Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Try to coordinate high-damage abilities with your allies right after Dr. Mundo uses his ultimate, but if you're unable to kill him quickly with burst he will heal through the damage.
Try casting Ignite when Dr. Mundo uses Sadism to negate a large portion of its healing.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several strategic Kalista vs. Dr. Mundo counter stats that can help us explain the differences between the two. As an example, Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Dr. Mundo. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kalista typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Dr. Mundo. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kalista usually wins when trying to fight Dr. Mundo, with a 51.5% win rate. As a result, Kalista makes a good counter for Dr. Mundo.
While Kalista does have a higher win rate than Dr. Mundo, when facing one another, Kalista also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Kalista into Dr. Mundoas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kalista has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Dr. Mundo. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Dr. Mundo matchups, Kalista is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kalista is a decent counter to Dr. Mundo. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kalista against Dr. Mundo.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to counter Dr. Mundo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Dr. Mundo. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Kalista versus Dr. Mundo build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better against Dr. Mundo than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 51.5% when countering Dr. Mundo with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Dr. Mundo as Kalista, Kalista players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Kalista vs Dr. Mundo counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
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