Vayne vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Vayne
based on 1,927 Vayne vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Kalista
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
Advice to Win Against Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Vayne vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Vayne in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several critical Vayne versus Kalista counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista..
Vayne usually has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vayne and Kalista
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Who is Better, Vayne or Kalista?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vayne usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 55.4% win rate. As a result, Vayne makes a fantastic counter for Kalista.
While Vayne does have a much higher win rate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Vayne also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vayne into Kalistaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vayne has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Kalista matchups, Vayne is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Vayne is a great counter for Kalista. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vayne against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vayne in order to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Vayne versus Kalista build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Vayne incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs Kalista than with most other typical builds. In fact, Vayne had an average winrate of 55.4% when countering Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Kalista as Vayne, Vayne players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Vayne vs Kalista battles, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 55.4% winrate overall.
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