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Kalista Build

Top Tier 4

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 5,924 gamesUpdated

48.4%win rate0.3%pick1.4%ban

Who counters Kalista

Every Top matchup for Kalista, ranked →

How to build Kalista

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

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

54.1% win rate 25% of games 1,065 games
RunesPrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast StandResolveBone PlatingOvergrowth50% of games
SpellsExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash56%
Skills
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Pierce
278910
Sentinel
1214151718
Rend
13456
Fate's Call
111316
StartDoran's BowHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Kalista build →
48.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.5% over 13,087 gamesPatch 26.21: 48.4% over 5,924 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
47.0%at Emerald+
0.3%pick rate
1.4%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
52.8%under 22 min
46.1%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 portraitT KalistavsYasuo champion portraitT Yasuo
5 / 13 / 7

Build

Berserker's Greaves|Guinsoo's Rageblade→Blade of The Ruined King→Randuin's Omen

Spells & runes

BarrierFlash|

Skills

EQEQEQEREQQRWWWRW
Loss 40–45m
MASTER+
Kalista champion portraitT KalistavsGaren champion portraitT Garen
10 / 14 / 3

Build

Berserker's Greaves|Statikk Shiv→Guinsoo's Rageblade→Terminus→Randuin's Omen

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

EQEQEQEQEQRWRWWRWW
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Kalista champion portraitT KalistavsTryndamere champion portraitT Tryndamere
7 / 7 / 4

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Statikk Shiv→Guinsoo's Rageblade→Jak'Sho, The Protean→Terminus

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

EQQEQEQEQERWRWWRWW

Runes

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

Most popular 49.5% win rate · 50% of games · 2,879 games
PrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
ResolveBone PlatingOvergrowth
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health
Runner up 45.8% win rate · 24% of games · 1,391 games
PrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
DominationSudden ImpactTreasure Hunter
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash56%46.5%3,409 games
  • FlashBarrierFlash + Barrier37%51.8%2,238 games

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

Boots
Berserker's Greaves51%Gluttonous Greaves37%Plated Steelcaps8%
Berserker's Greaves most often · 45.6% 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
9% of games that reach a third item take this path51.2% win rate363 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Kalista →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 5,971 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
50% · 46.4% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
36% · 54.0% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
8% · 48.4% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
3% · 52.6% win rate
BootsBoots
1% · 18.6% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 37.3% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Statikk Shiv›Guinsoo's Rageblade+Gluttonous Greaves3% of games · 48.8% win rate · 203 games
  2. Blade of The Ruined King+Berserker's Greaves3% of games · 33.9% win rate · 168 games
  3. Statikk Shiv›Guinsoo's Rageblade›Terminus+Gluttonous Greaves3% of games · 53.4% win rate · 161 games
  4. Statikk Shiv›Guinsoo's Rageblade+Berserker's Greaves3% of games · 34.0% win rate · 150 games
  5. Statikk Shiv+Gluttonous Greaves2% of games · 46.0% win rate · 139 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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