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.
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
The stat comparisons shown here show some valuable Kalista against Orianna counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Orianna..
Kalista often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives more damage than Orianna. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually fairs equally well when playing against Orianna, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Kalista makes an ok counter for Orianna.
While Kalista does have a lower win rate than Orianna, when they face off with one another, Kalista also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Kalista into Oriannaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kalista also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Orianna. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Orianna matchups, Orianna is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kalista is a somewhat poor counter to Orianna. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kalista against Orianna.
To truly master Kalista in order to counter Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Orianna. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Kalista versus Orianna build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Orianna than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when playing against Orianna with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Orianna as Kalista, you 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 builds that we analyzed for Kalista vs Orianna counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Orianna as Kalista are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.