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.
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
The Kalista Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kalista sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Azir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Azir helps Kalista perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is paired with Azir, she observes a small decrease in her full damage output. This difference may signal that Azir does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played alongside Azir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Azir.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Azir on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Azir does a decent job of protecting Kalista during team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her top ally. Yet, overall, Azir is a good companion for Kalista. By being on the same team as Kalista, he improves their win rate by 2.5% to 49.9%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good synergy between Kalista and Azir that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Azir has a greater difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players need to be careful when enlisting Azir comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Kalista and Azir together, you probably will not be providing your side enough tankyness. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Azir ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kalista to synergize with Azir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Kalista and Azir synergy build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Azir than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kalista had an average winrate of 49.9% helping carry Azir with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, 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 players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.
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