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Kalista Build

Mid Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 1,183 gamesUpdated

48.7%win rate0.1%pick1.4%ban

Who counters Kalista

How to build Kalista

Gunmetal Greaves→Statikk Shiv→Guinsoo's Rageblade→Terminus

Gunmetal Greaves → Statikk Shiv → Guinsoo's Rageblade → Terminus

58.4% win rate 27% of games 226 games
RunesPrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast StandDominationSudden ImpactTreasure Hunter52% of games
SpellsFlashBarrierFlash + Barrier55%
Skills
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Pierce
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Sentinel
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Rend
13457
Fate's Call
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StartDoran's BowHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Kalista build →
48.7%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.8% over 2,981 gamesPatch 26.21: 48.7% over 1,183 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
47.9%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
1.4%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
53.2%under 22 min
42.6%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Kalista champion portraitM KalistavsDr. Mundo champion portraitM Dr. Mundo
5 / 11 / 8

Build

Immortal Path|Statikk Shiv→Guinsoo's Rageblade→Terminus→Jak'Sho, The Protean

Spells & runes

BarrierFlash|

Skills

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Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Kalista champion portraitM KalistavsVeigar champion portraitM Veigar
3 / 5 / 6

Build

Immortal Path|Statikk Shiv→Guinsoo's Rageblade

Spells & runes

BarrierFlash|

Skills

EQEQEREQEQRQWW
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Kalista champion portraitM KalistavsSwain champion portraitM Swain
8 / 9 / 10

Build

Immortal Path|Statikk Shiv→Guinsoo's Rageblade→Terminus

Spells & runes

FlashBarrier|

Skills

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Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 48.0% win rate · 52% of games · 531 games
PrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
DominationSudden ImpactTreasure Hunter
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health
Runner up 42.6% win rate · 6% of games · 61 games
PrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
ResolveBone PlatingOvergrowth
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashBarrierFlash + Barrier55%49.4%662 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash32%48.1%385 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Gunmetal Greaves62%Immortal Path28%Chainlaced Crushers5%
Gunmetal Greaves most often · 49.4% win rate

Kalista build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Statikk Shiv1st
  2. Guinsoo's Rageblade2nd
  3. Terminus3rd
11% of games that reach a third item take this path56.0% win rate91 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Kalista →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 1,180 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Gunmetal GreavesGunmetal Greaves
62% · 49.9% win rate
Immortal PathImmortal Path
28% · 51.4% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
4% · 52.8% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
4% · 39.5% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Statikk Shiv›Guinsoo's Rageblade+Gunmetal Greaves3% of games · 40.5% win rate · 37 games
  2. Statikk Shiv›Guinsoo's Rageblade›Terminus+Immortal Path3% of games · 59.4% win rate · 32 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Kalista against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Kalista's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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