You typically use her ult to disengage supports who get caught out anyways. Yuumi at least has the potential to ult in then attach to Kalista to get out unlike most enchanters.
I'm an ADC main and just saying I LOVE the occasional glacial augment veigar bot game. Works really well when your team is AD heavy, and any slight loss in DPS is more than made up for in the extra utility (particularly when your ad mid is a DPS bruiser like yasuo or irelia)
Riot: Kalista is too strong on team fights. We need to nerf her to the ground! Also Riot: Meet Aphelios... he can one shot the whole team with an ult. Yeah.
@Nel Odel He has no mobility. He has his stun, that in order to use it you have to auto attack the targets first and that's it. He's one of the most vulnerable adcs, topping even Jhin.
@Nel Odel Well I've never seen an aphelios 1 v 5ing unless he is super super fed. It's easy targeting aphelios in a teamfight and he becomes useless. Plus he has been nerfed a hella lot in the last patches. Wouldn't call him a broken champion at all.
I just want Riot to finally acknowledge, that reducing Kalista's Jump Speed when she's slowed is one of the stupidest things of all time. Nowadays there are so many slows and you're basically half a champion in every teamfight if the enemies are aware of it.
Considering I played a game recently where I won lane as Kal, and at the end the enemy said “I can’t believe my ADC lost to a Kalista” this will be interesting.
that's why off-meta champs/picks are the best: they wonder how the jungle Poppy or the river Sejuani carried (both these strategies work I can confirm)
as I was a support main during seasons 4-7, I really really enjoyed playing with kallista. I honestly haven’t ever thought about it till this video but I think I grew closer to my adc duo because of kallista. her kit made it so that we always had to be right there with each other until the end. idk if I’m a dreamer, but I really hope my blue friend comes back
As a kalista main... I can tell its usable... But there are a lot of games that... She will be just a piece of shit and """"usable"""" does not mean the best... If i was playing with other adc instead i would be winning games easier... But no matter what since 2015 i pick kalista every single game...
big same supporting my Kalista ADCs made me pay attention to every of her auto attack, and made me feel much more relevant than with other ADCs, which can just roam solo after the laning phase
@@jimmynoobtron8172 well that was one year-ish ago i completly dropped the game but I wish u luck on your games, stuck at platinum 2/1 game not fun for me anymore
As a Kalista main since her release it makes me quite happy to see someone like you showing the world what Riot did to her. Hopefully she'll become great again in S10
Letto I love her design but....she was gutted so hard. You know how many kalista’s I have seen this whole season? 2. And one was yesterday, near the end. Rito please. You have my most sincere respect as a kalista main. Time has not been kind to your main my friend.
I’m actually surprised that you didn’t talk about how her passive makes it so when you lose vision on someone, your auto attack does not follow. With all the reworks and new champions coming out, it feels like it is easy to make it that Kalista just can’t attack. Don’t even try to approach an akali because she will shroud and you don’t have enough time to wind up an auto and it to reach her every time she peaks. When shaco got mini-reworked he saw more play and kalista cant deal with him. Senna can make her lose vision on the entire enemy team which makes it even harder for her to do anything in a team fight. Overall I’m just confused on why that is still part of her passive.
i mean like seriously that is some stupid bullshit RIOT thought it was a good idea? i too cant see the reason of an auto cancel because they just went invisible..
If that was the case for every champion in the game then i wouldn't have a problem with it. It just feels weird. The only explanation i have is that they were trying to make it so that people can run away more easily by breaking line of sight but as a Kalista player who has played her for the past couple of years, I just know not to chase enemies into the jungle.
@@kirbytrax8326 I think her gameplay design is pretty terrible. There's no particular reason for a skilled ghost spear woman to have a support/utility W and R. Her passive is also just strange and unjustified. Overall she's a very mechanically confused character imo.
One thing I didn't talk about enough was that during season 7 ardent meta she was 100% Ban rate at the world championship. I think that I should have talked about it but I did mention she had to be nerfed because she was still too strong. However I should have given more context on this because that was pretty crazy. Anyway thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed!
Can we all take a moment and appreciate how Exil puts the ads after each "chapter" of his videos instead of right when he is talking etc. It's the small things that improve the comfort.
@@SunnyTetro Janna is the most nerfed champ in league and they have to keep breaking her legs remove power nerf ap ratios , lower shielding, lower healing , higher CDs. yeah sometimes the meta doesnt favor her but when ever theirs healing supports she becomes the top pick and ban rate. compare her to other supports janna is very good at keeping her adc alive and team alive. if its a good janna you will never or very seldemly kill her or the adc
@@coolchrisable she's my go to support. I don't pay attention to patch notes or anything so I usually only notice her nerfs when I supp. Now I'm not typically the type to yell at Riot about balance but Pyke needs a nerf to his grey health shit.
I remember wanting to main her when i started to play the game and the I couldn't afford her and then when i got her she was so weird that i just gave up
I remember wanting Kalista for the longest time because I got her once in ARAM and did really well, but once I got enough BE I realized she was terrible.
@@Exil22 its like falseswipegamings vid on smash/pokemon haven't played since like s7? Or whenever akali rework came out but still watched all the way through 👍
Svillpa at least xayah requires skill with her feathers. Kai’sa just q’s, gets a massive shield, invisibility AND attack speed. Kai’sa is overloaded, xayah isn’t.
Kalista: * Jumps around the map, kiting forever, doing almost no damage with her autoattacks but stacking spears for massive burst* Reworked Kog Maw: * literally press w and stands in place for a free pentakill*
I see you don't play Kog'maw. Try getting a pentakill in a meta where every fucking champion deal a fuckton of damage and can burst you in 3 seconds and try farm 3 items when every game ends before 30min.
@@Parkwaydriver i see you havent played reworked kog maw where he literally had 5.00 ats and was played with lulu to be unkillable because he killed you in 0.5 seconds
i want to cry dude i was almost forget her history im Kalista OTP until now and i really miss her crazy dmg but there something you didn't talk about new players these days dont know what Kalista mean soo they dont know her R OR her W
suck urmum Sona has a problem with people not realizing she gives buffs and restores part of her mana while you are in her aura. It might be a decent choice of support for Kalista because both of you benefit from being next to eachother and Sona provides some speed and damage.
Kalista and sona work really well together actually. Both of their ults just make a terrifying cc combo that easily makes everyone at half health after a bit of time if you have a bork and runaans at least.
*It would be interesting* to see the Rise of the High Major Commodore of the First Legion Third Multiplication Double Admiral Artillery Vanguard Company of League
@@Exil22 Exil i dont think that new conquerer will benefit kalista much, the reason for the this because kalista has to take hob for the attack speed, the reason it may have worked in the past may have been becuase of old Hurricane Edit: spelling error
@@sullt766 well i've been playing her with conqueror (pre rework) and it works kinda well bcse your e deals true dmg and gives you ad that on early game makes you a total lv 2 all in adc, you take the normal build and then you switch to a bruiser path with death's dance and frozen mallet, these 2 items + bloodthirster + overheal + ravenous hunter makes her inmortal right now and you need houndeous grievs to take her out (morelonomicon mortal reminder bramble vest)
I still watch this video, becauase the production quality of your content is unbelievable. Btw player from my country (czechia) named Freeze. Got rank 1 world. Thanks to kalista. He had around 1800 lp on west. which was the most
I was a Kalista main in s5/6 and it was honestly so cool playing her back then, now she feels like a husk of her former self. Havent tpuched her in years :(
@@pearstastegood7843 Well, basically she was such a dull champ and they wanted to increase her skillcap. That did work. They also wanted to make it less frustrating to play against her. That did NOT work. But hey, now she's hot af and literally every of her skins is potential fap material. Back then, there were only two of those.
@@dusk1999 we don't get side boobs and her skill cap is lower... People are hitting her cap in Challenger, but nobody hit her cap pre rework( I'm talking about jg akali bc that's what I played I don't know if top and mid Lane players hit it)
Fun fact (idk why Exil didn't mention this): Kalista had a 100% ban rate at Worlds 2017. In the history of World Championships, such an event only happened twice. The second time was Pantheon at Worlds 2019.
As someone who use to main Kalista and even hit Masterly lvl 7 on her before she completely fell off, this warms my heart. I can't wait to see her viable again. Such a fun champ to play once you can learn her devilish ways.
I still remember those good old days where I was kiting 2-3 enemies and somehow still manage to win even if my support came late.. rito pls make way for the queen of adcs :(
When i was younger and worse at the game, I couldn't play kalista for the life of me but thought she was super cool and knew she took a great deal of skill to play, so i always held kalista players in high regard. Today i still do, but learning how she fell from grace brings a tear to my eyes.
This one was justified. It was because the main and only reason kalista was still picked by pros is that she could basically outsmite every jungler with her rend. They compensated with all the bas stats buffs she received that patch, to make soloq players able to play them
Thank you for this video, i really miss playing Kalista but with her current state is impossible, so a video with this quality is truly amazing, and i hope too that Kalista will be a better champion in the next seaso, i will save this video on my favorites.
i remember building hurricane - black cleaver - statik shiv, because of hurricane and her passive every 3rd attack would proc static and the armor pen was also crazily spread
Awesome analysis. Thanks for the effort! Ftr, started lol in s5, played kalista the whole s6 and deleted lol after she nerfed. Never felt the same again...
when she came out i needed an ad in my kit for ranked, there were great days when she was able to kite sticky camps. this was when ghost blade rush was a thing with q max for the wave clear
Easily one of the best LoL content creators. I'm a midlander, never really played Kalista, but this video was so we'll done, I just wanted to keep watching. Thank for making compelling League content. *Hugs
nah if you put them against the old kalista they are equal if you have good mechanics..yep not in 1 vs 1 but competitivly in a 5 vs 5 she can kill everyone
@@djakdawid4254 dude what im saying is before kalista got nerfed as hell... she has no longer ferbor mastery.. no longer has the fancy footwork..significant e stack her 3rd skill... before she can 1 vs 1 anyadc depending on your mechanics now.. she still can but she will get out damaged late game..
@@djakdawid4254 these are facts.... i played her... ii even main her before...the fancy footwork before has 100%scale attack speed.. attack slow have nos affect in the passive.. also.. kalista now is glitcy due to less attackspeed base... cant cancel your passive attack hop.. its bullshit...now that season 10 coming kalista will be back.. for sure with the addition of the new conqueror...dont disregard the fact that this past year meta are assasins role.. with the addition of lethality items which got nerfed but still strong..
@@djakdawid4254 She gets deleted by anything in teamfights... Without Runaan's you're nobody. You can not breach their frontline. You can only win early fights lv 1-2. You're full item, they lower your hp, only thing you can do? JUST BAIT. No damage, no burst. Why not riot rework this champion and make it a badass support? The only thing you can do best is to kill steal, and why not turn her ult into something that gives the whole gold to her ADC? Add more CC and you're done.
The thing is.. I LOVE THIS CHAMPION, and you made an in depth analysis of it perfectly and i couldnt be happier about it... hell you even put the fan art i got as inspiration to draw my own kalista fan art back in 2016. Thank you so much for this video, my favourite Riven main, Exil
I came here to learn more about Kalista (a champion which concept I liked a lot) and ended up pretty happy with the positive notes at the end of the video. Thanks for that :D!!
I mean, his tone of voice is somehow apologetic but not genuine. If you'd understand what I meant it would make sense obv. If you're just partially interested then ... it made some sense XD and that's fine. Also, much love to ADC mains, that shit's hard.
God I remember lcs when she first came out, the baron fights were some of the most entertaining "e-sports" games I've ever seen, mostly because playing around kalista was such a pain in the ass.
Watching this really brings back memories i had playing Kalista. She was an underdog champ that i would barely or maybe never saw anyone play for weeks. I loved how her playstyle could really show a players skill while being flashy at the same time and that really motivated me to try learn her. I managed to get challenger in season 7 by 1 tricking her and back then i still felt like i haven't even reached the limits of what the champion was capable of. Its been a while since I've touched league but after watching how much attention shes been getting from riot recently i really hope to get back into it and play her again.
Man, when Kalista was released I fell in love with how she felt to play. (not because she was strong, but because she was fun and unique compared to other marksman) Now I can't stand even the thought of playing her thanks to the uncountable nerfs over the years. All they ever had to do to make her more balanced was lower the bonus damage per spear on her rend, and make no other changes to her release kit. Instead, they nerf/remove literally everything _other_ than that one problem ability. They remove boot enchants, remove her hops gaining distance based on boot tier, remove her increased back hop distance, make her autos fail if she loses vision of her target, make her autos always deal 90% damage instead, tie her to her soulbond even more with the attack speed stuff where she _loses_ attack speed when her soulbond isn't near, making her hop speed and distance affected by attack speed slows, and so many other nerfs that together took her from strong then to complete shit now.
And even if you do what you said thiing is she will still be OP beacuse well passive. That made her the most mobille champion in game even so then Yasuo as we consider him to be quite mobile. I got kited in minion wave and I played Yasuo that was not balanced back then it was almost imposible to kill her beacuse double back distance dash. Even now she can still do that if a player is good and he got ahead.
as a support main kalista is still one of the most fun adc's to play with and against. the dashes make landing skill shots feel so much better. and playing with her and landing cc is so nice.
When I first got her she was probably my first impulse purchase, let alone with riot points. I was a newbie and refused to play any other champion (to the annoyance of my friends). She’s one of my only lvl7s and it’s a shame I can never play her and have fun. Really hope you’re right about her comeback.
I'll say this as a support main. I haven't started that long ago (about 550 games in total) and played with a Kallista only twice but those were the two of the most enjoyable games I've ever had. That ult can hard counter almost all engaging CC supports (Leona/Pyke/Blitz comes in mind for now, Thresh to some extent too I think) and I still can't forget about the game when the first Kallista told me how her ult works. There was an annoying Blitz as en supp ( you know those toxic ones, laughing, spamming emotes, flashing mastery and all that) trying to tilt us but we played safe initially and once she and I both hit lv6, I got hooked on purpose, Kallista ulted, then I launched myself flanking them and ulted too(I was playing Sona), hit both that Blitz and the adc, and got two of the cleanest kills I've ever been a part of. That Blitz got killed 6 or 7 times during the laning phase and en adc flamed him real bad in all chat for being toxic and useless at the same time. Man I wish I could play with more Kallistas!
Don't think that'll ever happen. She's like Yasuo, Fizz, Riven, a very overloaded kit. Those champs can be 'weak' depending on the patch, but never too much, especially in the hands of good players.
What about Kog'maw? He's been kind of shelved since they failed at trying to rework him, and as much as I love him, he's just hard to play when everyone has a dash and burst.
Play aphelios till they figure how to rework kog-naw into a actual void-centric champion. He literally look like sombody made a bi-pedal chimera alien thing gone wrong in a secret Zaun Laboratory than a void dweller like cho'/ kha'/Rek'
I am main adc and i have tô say. If there one ad i Will always lose os kog maw. He with a peel sup (think lulu as the perfect) is a Monster. His early game is far from being weak and Just melt everything late. When i play kog lulu i only lose when i throw reaaally hard ir when my team do this for me
The problem with Kalista is that she wants to build attack speed, but if you utilize her passive with high enough attack speeds you lose so much DPS. She wants attack speed yet it can't even be fully used with her passive.
I used to love playing kalista so much, I tried to pick her this season and... My supports didn't know how to play along, people just forgot about her and seeing that a season 10 might be her comeback makes me so God damn happy
I picked up Kalista a little over a month ago and she’s by far my favorite ADC, idk if i’ve just been having competent supports or not but in around 60 games i’ve gone from no mastery points to mastery 7 with her and she’s my most played and high win rate champion in ranked. Hoping she could still get some more love to put her at the same level as ADCs like kai
I feel like these days, especially in lower ranks, people lose to her because they underestimate the champion (she's still a carry at the end of the day :P) and that no one knows the matchup. I've talked to ADC mains who started playing the game in s9-10 and they've only played against her once or twice and have no idea how she works (which makes it more fun to stomp people with tbh). I'm really happy to see people in s11 enjoying my favourite ADC so much and I hope you keep at her in the long run through the inevitable flame you'll get for picking her solo, it's so worth it
@@davidpoirier5945 yeah whenever i do poorly people say “it’s your fault for picking an off meta champion.” and other dumb stuff. i don’t play the game for the meta, i play the game to enjoy myself. I’ve been playing since around season 3 so i’m a bit overly aware of what every champion does haha. it is fun to catch people off guard by chunking their health with a rend though 🤪
@@aodhanmartinez Rend is the best part because it's basically socially acceptable to KS to reset your E :P I completely agree with playing for fun tho, I used to be a pre-rework Urgot main (may his soul lay in peace) but he got deleted so I had to find another fun and off-the-wall champion, and meta stuff is usually boring as sin anyway
Riot: "Kalista has to stay with her support."
Also Riot: "Meet Yuumi."
The thing is that Kalista is bad with enchanters
@@moek25 I dont agree. But I do think she is better with wardens and catchers.
@@ChaddyFantome her ult becomes really bad with squish supports
You typically use her ult to disengage supports who get caught out anyways. Yuumi at least has the potential to ult in then attach to Kalista to get out unlike most enchanters.
@@wedelxecho If you are using her ult to disengage then you are playing poorly.
A yes, there's Kalista's pick rate, right next to the well-known adcs: Heimerdinger, Veigar, Syndra, and Swain.
Cassiopeia
dont forget nami
best adc in the game
Is it weird that by this point Heimer ADC sounds completely natural to me?
hahahaha ikr....
so stupid lol, I can'tt believe it
I'm an ADC main and just saying I LOVE the occasional glacial augment veigar bot game. Works really well when your team is AD heavy, and any slight loss in DPS is more than made up for in the extra utility (particularly when your ad mid is a DPS bruiser like yasuo or irelia)
Listen here dammit, as a true Kalista main, i’ve won at least two games.
Isaiah ah yes. A fellow Kalista main. Although you’ve done better than I. I have one win.
@@chokeaboe810 There was a way to actually win playing kalista? I've been waiting for that day for so long...
Aha I have 1 win on kalista in ranked, at least it comes with the 100 percent win rate when I did pick her that one time
Kalista Actually ain’t that bad atm
Yeah she’s actually coming back just went 10/2/4
Riot: Kalista is too strong on team fights. We need to nerf her to the ground!
Also Riot: Meet Aphelios... he can one shot the whole team with an ult. Yeah.
Aphelios doesn't have all the kalista mobility
@Nel Odel Which one?
@Nel Odel yeah tell us... or cant you.
@Nel Odel He has no mobility. He has his stun, that in order to use it you have to auto attack the targets first and that's it. He's one of the most vulnerable adcs, topping even Jhin.
@Nel Odel Well I've never seen an aphelios 1 v 5ing unless he is super super fed. It's easy targeting aphelios in a teamfight and he becomes useless. Plus he has been nerfed a hella lot in the last patches. Wouldn't call him a broken champion at all.
I just want Riot to finally acknowledge, that reducing Kalista's Jump Speed when she's slowed is one of the stupidest things of all time. Nowadays there are so many slows and you're basically half a champion in every teamfight if the enemies are aware of it.
No wonder I can't get away from Darius once he W me...
Buying a frozen heart is amazing lol
lmao very very appropriate in today's climate being that LITERALLY everything slows u now and the new runes and shit
Considering I played a game recently where I won lane as Kal, and at the end the enemy said “I can’t believe my ADC lost to a Kalista” this will be interesting.
LOL
well THEIR team was even more trash OHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
I lost to a Khalistan as a jinx, I was surprised by the Hail of blades damage 0.0
@@owo4470 hail of blades kalista is good on the early game but if the game extends to 30 minutes she will lose power and a lot
that's why off-meta champs/picks are the best: they wonder how the jungle Poppy or the river Sejuani carried (both these strategies work I can confirm)
I love this channel
Even if he is a riven main
Hahha thanks
Wait why churchill plays lol
@@anarchistlilia Stalin told me its a good game
@@winstonchurchill4589 he lied to you
@@gayboi9413 as he did everyone underneath his "leadership"
"How Kalista Fell From Being The Best To The Worst Champion"
RIOT: "We can't balance OP champions, so we outright kill them."
They werent just killed, they were MURDERED
If only theyd do that to yasuo next... One can dream
@@imapotato2349 You meant Teemo right? That little bastard should rot xD
Still can't "balance" zed and yasuo though
LemonandCrackhead dude teemo is pretty shit nowadays deshrooming is easy as hell now
Is it me or he forgot to talk about the nerf on her e: killing a minion no longer gives full mana back
I hate that nerf
@@jakubsaf3632 Goddamn me too that was so game changing
@@jakubsaf3632 Same..
PanThaeL Had to actually last-hit now :((
Duc Trung Tran
Last hit with 90% attack damage
as I was a support main during seasons 4-7, I really really enjoyed playing with kallista. I honestly haven’t ever thought about it till this video but I think I grew closer to my adc duo because of kallista. her kit made it so that we always had to be right there with each other until the end.
idk if I’m a dreamer, but I really hope my blue friend comes back
As a kalista main... I can tell its usable... But there are a lot of games that... She will be just a piece of shit and """"usable"""" does not mean the best... If i was playing with other adc instead i would be winning games easier... But no matter what since 2015 i pick kalista every single game...
@@yurifurtado1955 That's fucking dedication right there, respect.
big same
supporting my Kalista ADCs made me pay attention to every of her auto attack, and made me feel much more relevant than with other ADCs, which can just roam solo after the laning phase
@@yurifurtado1955 same
@@jimmynoobtron8172 well that was one year-ish ago i completly dropped the game but I wish u luck on your games, stuck at platinum 2/1 game not fun for me anymore
"The entire reason why Urgot was reworked was because he just flat-out sucked"
I feel attacked
He also Said that he was ugly
Im crying all the way inside me
He was op I miss him 😔
They reworked him because he could be really strong as a tanky adc, and adc mains can't afford that like other lanes do
He was very strong, like very strong, he deals a lot of damage while being tanky at the same time
He was the best lane bully in the game. The old E, the gas bomb that made homing missiles and a ridiculos high range, I miss him so much.
As a Kalista main since her release it makes me quite happy to see someone like you showing the world what Riot did to her.
Hopefully she'll become great again in S10
Yep I like the champ too
Letto I love her design but....she was gutted so hard. You know how many kalista’s I have seen this whole season? 2. And one was yesterday, near the end. Rito please. You have my most sincere respect as a kalista main. Time has not been kind to your main my friend.
As a fellow Kalista main I say that hope is futile. Don't hope. Just start playing meta ADCs like everyone else. Get out before it's too late.
i guess at least riot try to buff her recently so she get out of the absolute trash tier
For me she is one of the most interesting characters to play after Kled, i hope they will do something about her to be playable again.
In my eyes she was the most satisfying ADC to watch played on perfection
I pref draven
and the second most satisfying is Vayne, even if i don't main her, watching pro players carrying with vayne is beautiful
@@eugeniarodriguez90 my second one would be riven ,,, riven mains are beautifull
Oh boi I sure do love Adc Rivens in my ranked
@@DaniloHD AD carry riven is bae
I’m actually surprised that you didn’t talk about how her passive makes it so when you lose vision on someone, your auto attack does not follow. With all the reworks and new champions coming out, it feels like it is easy to make it that Kalista just can’t attack. Don’t even try to approach an akali because she will shroud and you don’t have enough time to wind up an auto and it to reach her every time she peaks. When shaco got mini-reworked he saw more play and kalista cant deal with him. Senna can make her lose vision on the entire enemy team which makes it even harder for her to do anything in a team fight. Overall I’m just confused on why that is still part of her passive.
BIG FCKING TRUE
Player: picks Kalista
Opponents: Pick Akali, Irelia, Yasuo
Player: Guess i'll die 💀
i mean like seriously that is some stupid bullshit RIOT thought it was a good idea? i too cant see the reason of an auto cancel because they just went invisible..
If that was the case for every champion in the game then i wouldn't have a problem with it. It just feels weird. The only explanation i have is that they were trying to make it so that people can run away more easily by breaking line of sight but as a Kalista player who has played her for the past couple of years, I just know not to chase enemies into the jungle.
This made me laugh in the most enjoyable way, I love your sarcasm
"was released on patch 4.20"
I see riot was high when they released her
weedwick 4.20
I'm glad I'm not the only one! I thought, "damn they were on that good shit, no wonder they thought kalista was a good idea to add to the game"
Besides being broken at launch... and for a season or two, she has an incredible design. Both her looks and her gameplay are amazing.
@@kirbytrax8326 I think her gameplay design is pretty terrible. There's no particular reason for a skilled ghost spear woman to have a support/utility W and R. Her passive is also just strange and unjustified. Overall she's a very mechanically confused character imo.
TheUnendingVoid That is because you don’t know how to play. Look at her prime in the past....
One thing I didn't talk about enough was that during season 7 ardent meta she was 100% Ban rate at the world championship. I think that I should have talked about it but I did mention she had to be nerfed because she was still too strong. However I should have given more context on this because that was pretty crazy. Anyway thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed!
pant
OMG!! I was expecting for this video so much
Where is the bard video?
I just wish that if this happends to kalista it doesnt happend to kai´sa
bard
Can we all take a moment and appreciate how Exil puts the ads after each "chapter" of his videos instead of right when he is talking etc.
It's the small things that improve the comfort.
it's as annoying as if when he Talks tbh
@@kroffkroff2199 just don't watch then, if you don't like ads don't watch the free content
True
Ads? I use Opera as my main browser lmao
The change in tone of the music throughout the video is really well-executed
Kalista: i use to be the god of botlane
Janna: first time?
Janna is still bullshit if her pilot is good wym?
@@Rebellions shes been underperforming lately
A wild potato appeared I don’t think Janna has been gutted on the same level as kalista.
@@SunnyTetro Janna is the most nerfed champ in league and they have to keep breaking her legs remove power nerf ap ratios , lower shielding, lower healing , higher CDs. yeah sometimes the meta doesnt favor her but when ever theirs healing supports she becomes the top pick and ban rate. compare her to other supports janna is very good at keeping her adc alive and team alive. if its a good janna you will never or very seldemly kill her or the adc
@@coolchrisable she's my go to support. I don't pay attention to patch notes or anything so I usually only notice her nerfs when I supp. Now I'm not typically the type to yell at Riot about balance but Pyke needs a nerf to his grey health shit.
To summarize Kalista’s existence:
You can’t remove a champion from the roster.
More like
You CAN delete a champion without physically removing them from the game.
Cause she might as well not exist.
Please see original Aatrox for in-depth guide on how to remove a champion from the game.
LemonandCrackhead True
It's not like AAtrox technically got deleted (HE HAS NO REVIVE ANYMORE and His Built in lifesteal is where?)
@@WildKamuran More like every ability and his appearance changed. Almost nothing is left from the original.
as a Kalista main since season 5 this gave me the chills, thank you so much for making this video it brought back some good memories
I remember wanting to main her when i started to play the game and the I couldn't afford her and then when i got her she was so weird that i just gave up
Lol
I wanted to give up on her but I just kept coming back. Love this champ for some reason.
It’s hard af.
Me too
I remember wanting Kalista for the longest time because I got her once in ARAM and did really well, but once I got enough BE I realized she was terrible.
"And if you remove the 2 games from brazil" that one went right in the wounds
Keep up these documentary style videos. They are fantastic and the reason I subbed to you.
thank you very much!
@@Exil22 its like falseswipegamings vid on smash/pokemon haven't played since like s7? Or whenever akali rework came out but still watched all the way through 👍
S11 Pre-Season update: still trash in solo queue.
Exil: There is a chance
Me: Don't....
Exil: Don't what?
Me: Don't give me hope
You should make a video about Pantheons 100% ban rate in worlds group stage.
Definitely is a good idea too
I really wanna see that
It's a curious case but pretty straight forward: he's strong as fuck, that's all.
Frankly Panty should have been disabled for Worlds. Rito making silly changes before Worlds all over again.
Or mordes xD
well now we have kaisa
:(
truth what can compete with kaisa
@@Exil22 Xayah
Svillpa at least xayah requires skill with her feathers. Kai’sa just q’s, gets a massive shield, invisibility AND attack speed. Kai’sa is overloaded, xayah isn’t.
@@phoenixflamegames1 True
@remaXamer Illuminati Confirmed?
Kalista: * Jumps around the map, kiting forever, doing almost no damage with her autoattacks but stacking spears for massive burst*
Reworked Kog Maw: * literally press w and stands in place for a free pentakill*
i miss 5.0 as kog
I see you don't play Kog'maw. Try getting a pentakill in a meta where every fucking champion deal a fuckton of damage and can burst you in 3 seconds and try farm 3 items when every game ends before 30min.
@@Parkwaydriver i see you havent played reworked kog maw where he literally had 5.00 ats and was played with lulu to be unkillable because he killed you in 0.5 seconds
@@marcgellert736 you're right, i did not played with that kog'maw. But i'm talking about right now, not 3 years ago
@@Parkwaydriver thats why he said reworked kogmaw
i want to cry dude i was almost forget her history
im Kalista OTP until now and i really miss her crazy dmg
but there something you didn't talk about
new players these days dont know what Kalista mean soo they dont know her R OR her W
Kalista gets buffed
Riot:so you gonna play her now right?
Every adc main: No, i don't think I will
Twin Tyara "buff" increase the damage of the W, how can we use that with the soloQ sups?
@@limv1974 i instantly copy paste that at the beggining of the game XD
*Screams in Aphelios's Passive armor penetration*
suck urmum Sona has a problem with people not realizing she gives buffs and restores part of her mana while you are in her aura. It might be a decent choice of support for Kalista because both of you benefit from being next to eachother and Sona provides some speed and damage.
Kalista and sona work really well together actually. Both of their ults just make a terrifying cc combo that easily makes everyone at half health after a bit of time if you have a bork and runaans at least.
*It would be interesting*
to see the Rise of the High Major Commodore of the First Legion
Third Multiplication Double Admiral Artillery Vanguard Company of League
Hahah
You WILL respect his authority!
@@Exil22 Exil i dont think that new conquerer will benefit kalista much, the reason for the this because kalista has to take hob for the attack speed, the reason it may have worked in the past may have been becuase of old Hurricane
Edit: spelling error
@@sullt766 well i've been playing her with conqueror (pre rework) and it works kinda well bcse your e deals true dmg and gives you ad that on early game makes you a total lv 2 all in adc, you take the normal build and then you switch to a bruiser path with death's dance and frozen mallet, these 2 items + bloodthirster + overheal + ravenous hunter makes her inmortal right now and you need houndeous grievs to take her out (morelonomicon mortal reminder bramble vest)
he's so strong because *EVEN IF I LOSE I WIN*
Kalista is the whole reason I started playing with "attack Move". One of the reasons she felt so good cause the two were made for each other.
attackmove is bugged from 1.80 attackspeed+ btw ur jumps are like 33% slower if u use attackmove only
its slower than auto clicking so ur not brainlessly doing god kites with a spamming
attack move is imposible on kalista, makes you play like a chimp. just click twice it's not that hard
Yea playing with auto move takes the pressure off of you but it’s not as effective.
i love your LoL History videos, please keep making those
im really glad thanks a bunch!
“next season finally some hope for her”
“the come back”
🥺
I still watch this video, becauase the production quality of your content is unbelievable. Btw player from my country (czechia) named Freeze. Got rank 1 world. Thanks to kalista. He had around 1800 lp on west. which was the most
I was a Kalista main in s5/6 and it was honestly so cool playing her back then, now she feels like a husk of her former self. Havent tpuched her in years :(
yep she feels clunky as heck
Boris ! Same dude. OG Kalista mains for the win
At least you still have the champ :/ akali got reworked for some reason
@@pearstastegood7843 Well, basically she was such a dull champ and they wanted to increase her skillcap. That did work.
They also wanted to make it less frustrating to play against her. That did NOT work.
But hey, now she's hot af and literally every of her skins is potential fap material. Back then, there were only two of those.
@@dusk1999 we don't get side boobs and her skill cap is lower... People are hitting her cap in Challenger, but nobody hit her cap pre rework( I'm talking about jg akali bc that's what I played I don't know if top and mid Lane players hit it)
Fun fact (idk why Exil didn't mention this):
Kalista had a 100% ban rate at Worlds 2017. In the history of World Championships, such an event only happened twice. The second time was Pantheon at Worlds 2019.
ngl for a period of time I even forgot that she existed
As someone who use to main Kalista and even hit Masterly lvl 7 on her before she completely fell off, this warms my heart. I can't wait to see her viable again. Such a fun champ to play once you can learn her devilish ways.
Exil: *posts this video*
a few months later
TheShy: I would like to introduce myself
I still remember those good old days where I was kiting 2-3 enemies and somehow still manage to win even if my support came late.. rito pls make way for the queen of adcs :(
Yes, that was so satisfying to pull off
Now adc like kai sa and xayah took her queen placing:(
@@warlocksmurf sad reality :(
@@lyrred01 ye kalista was prolly my 1st adc i enjoyed using back in season 4 or 5 now jhin is best for me
Well they should buff her but i dont think any champion should be able to fight 3v1 and win
As 1 of 3 kalista mains left, i can just say, this is actually really good.
ay i main her too
But im 1 of them ._.
Yea i main her too so it should be 4
I play dota 2
People broke their mouse and wrist. That's my theory.
Personally, the fact she loses attack speed by getting her movement speed lowered makes her impossible to play
Why not just make it that she cant dash as far for the slow duration
When i was younger and worse at the game, I couldn't play kalista for the life of me but thought she was super cool and knew she took a great deal of skill to play, so i always held kalista players in high regard. Today i still do, but learning how she fell from grace brings a tear to my eyes.
At least Riot admit the fact that they have no idea how to balance her and Azir
5:54
patch 4.20
2-3 seconds later a CLOUD appears
nice riot
Another nerf that they just randomly decided to implement is that her E now deals WAAAY less dmg than it did to epic monsters
This one was justified. It was because the main and only reason kalista was still picked by pros is that she could basically outsmite every jungler with her rend. They compensated with all the bas stats buffs she received that patch, to make soloq players able to play them
@@a.arrondel6379 I mean Xayah is pretty uncontested too when it comes to outsmiting
Another great movie and this time on my beloved champion. This gives me hope, thanks.
I will say the sylas who stole a kalista ult and used it to save me is a awsome dude
Another documentary vid yay
im glad you like them
I'm happy this video could end on a somewhat positive note. Makes me hopeful for the future of my blue hoppy gurl.
:)
Seeing the end of this video, it kinda makes me want to re-learn her before season 10, especially with the new objective heavy changes we are getting
Thank you for this video, i really miss playing Kalista but with her current state is impossible, so a video with this quality is truly amazing, and i hope too that Kalista will be a better champion in the next seaso, i will save this video on my favorites.
Man your production is so clean, it shows the effort you put at your videos. The fact that you only have 190k subscribers is bonkers
thank you im glad you enjoy the videos!
sad to see how my main has fallen off, 3 years after quitting league. hope jinx is doing well tho
as a jinx otp i can say jinx is doing ok right now, in early game not so good but on late if you have a decent team you can carry the game easy
Имя Фамилия Jinx has always been meta lol
Shen documentary , why Shen so underrated and underestimated
Klepto hard counters Shen and it's way too popular right now
@@tacodfs So maybe next season when it'll be gone...?
i remember building hurricane - black cleaver - statik shiv, because of hurricane and her passive every 3rd attack would proc static and the armor pen was also crazily spread
I’m not a league player, but the quality of your videos, and storytelling keep me coming back! Bravo!
Awesome analysis. Thanks for the effort! Ftr, started lol in s5, played kalista the whole s6 and deleted lol after she nerfed. Never felt the same again...
10:44 I've always remember that sneaky clip that was what inspired me to play her and probably the whole community as well
Can you make a video on Azir because he seems important in esport
And about how in every patch note since release for two years he was getting nerfed and debugged XD
@@Johnjohn-lg1te true xD
Azir couldn’t get the bugs out with all that sand I guess...
As an Azir Main . Im still here, waiting for my Emperor to rise once again.
god damn this hit me in the feels. i used to love playing this champion so much.
when she came out i needed an ad in my kit for ranked, there were great days when she was able to kite sticky camps. this was when ghost blade rush was a thing with q max for the wave clear
Easily one of the best LoL content creators. I'm a midlander, never really played Kalista, but this video was so we'll done, I just wanted to keep watching. Thank for making compelling League content. *Hugs
wtf her old jumps looked so smooth.
"in season 10 there might be some hope for her" that didnt age well
hey at least she got a skin LMAO
@@kalista.joint.weed6788 in 2021
She's still a dead champion sadly
@@Aritmunoz she was broken for a couple weeks with eclipse because it gave mobility and you could execute people with 3 spears but not anymore sadly
S11 people play her atleast professional players play her shit ton and she is kinda good in soloque if you know how to play her
Season X: No one buys other adc skins apart from Kalista
Riot games: let me fix that
As a support player that mains tanks, I miss Kalista so much. I always loved her R on Leona or Alistar, the great all in cc combos.
Man I love your videos.
They are so easy to understand (your english and accent help)...
Hi from Spain!
Watching this is the future, there is no hope for her
Which is super sad because I love playing Kalista. Hoping arpund while throwing spears and then ripping them out and getting a kill is so satisfying.
Kalista top in season 10: Allow me to introduce myself
Shes pick/ban bot as well now
I just can't believe kalista and senna exist in the same game...
This channel made me think about old metas, how op champs were before and etc.
I hope you can keep creating more of this kind of content in the future, it's really interesting!
Thank you!
Kai'sa & Xayah get released: we're about to ruin this champ's whole career.
nah if you put them against the old kalista they are equal if you have good mechanics..yep not in 1 vs 1 but competitivly in a 5 vs 5 she can kill everyone
@@UnknownPerson-ul1fn in 5v5 kalista gets deleted by single Kaisa Q and Xayah R
@@djakdawid4254 dude what im saying is before kalista got nerfed as hell... she has no longer ferbor mastery.. no longer has the fancy footwork..significant e stack her 3rd skill... before she can 1 vs 1 anyadc depending on your mechanics now.. she still can but she will get out damaged late game..
@@djakdawid4254 these are facts.... i played her... ii even main her before...the fancy footwork before has 100%scale attack speed.. attack slow have nos affect in the passive.. also.. kalista now is glitcy due to less attackspeed base... cant cancel your passive attack hop.. its bullshit...now that season 10 coming kalista will be back.. for sure with the addition of the new conqueror...dont disregard the fact that this past year meta are assasins role.. with the addition of lethality items which got nerfed but still strong..
@@djakdawid4254 She gets deleted by anything in teamfights... Without Runaan's you're nobody. You can not breach their frontline. You can only win early fights lv 1-2. You're full item, they lower your hp, only thing you can do? JUST BAIT. No damage, no burst. Why not riot rework this champion and make it a badass support? The only thing you can do best is to kill steal, and why not turn her ult into something that gives the whole gold to her ADC? Add more CC and you're done.
“On patch 4.20” AYYYYYYEEEEEE
I found a Kalista main and together we frequently "dominate" games together... fun times
I am a kalista main. I love finding a duo I play with. Over 500k pts on my kali.
The thing is.. I LOVE THIS CHAMPION, and you made an in depth analysis of it perfectly and i couldnt be happier about it... hell you even put the fan art i got as inspiration to draw my own kalista fan art back in 2016.
Thank you so much for this video, my favourite Riven main, Exil
I came here to learn more about Kalista (a champion which concept I liked a lot) and ended up pretty happy with the positive notes at the end of the video. Thanks for that :D!!
Riot really doesn’t know how to balance their game.
Unless it’s those sellable skin champions
If you flame me as naut supp for missing 3 hooks, then yes I will roam
This guy talks as if he's selling poison masked as flowers.
My English is not so good sir , so with all do respect what the actual fuck do you mean?
that's basicaly what kalista is, i think i'm gonna 1 trick her to dia next season
What?
I mean, his tone of voice is somehow apologetic but not genuine. If you'd understand what I meant it would make sense obv. If you're just partially interested then ... it made some sense XD and that's fine.
Also, much love to ADC mains, that shit's hard.
God I remember lcs when she first came out, the baron fights were some of the most entertaining "e-sports" games I've ever seen, mostly because playing around kalista was such a pain in the ass.
Watching this really brings back memories i had playing Kalista. She was an underdog champ that i would barely or maybe never saw anyone play for weeks. I loved how her playstyle could really show a players skill while being flashy at the same time and that really motivated me to try learn her. I managed to get challenger in season 7 by 1 tricking her and back then i still felt like i haven't even reached the limits of what the champion was capable of. Its been a while since I've touched league but after watching how much attention shes been getting from riot recently i really hope to get back into it and play her again.
Man, when Kalista was released I fell in love with how she felt to play. (not because she was strong, but because she was fun and unique compared to other marksman) Now I can't stand even the thought of playing her thanks to the uncountable nerfs over the years.
All they ever had to do to make her more balanced was lower the bonus damage per spear on her rend, and make no other changes to her release kit.
Instead, they nerf/remove literally everything _other_ than that one problem ability. They remove boot enchants, remove her hops gaining distance based on boot tier, remove her increased back hop distance, make her autos fail if she loses vision of her target, make her autos always deal 90% damage instead, tie her to her soulbond even more with the attack speed stuff where she _loses_ attack speed when her soulbond isn't near, making her hop speed and distance affected by attack speed slows, and so many other nerfs that together took her from strong then to complete shit now.
And even if you do what you said thiing is she will still be OP beacuse well passive. That made her the most mobille champion in game even so then Yasuo as we consider him to be quite mobile. I got kited in minion wave and I played Yasuo that was not balanced back then it was almost imposible to kill her beacuse double back distance dash. Even now she can still do that if a player is good and he got ahead.
Kalista came back, just as a top laner. Now nobody is happy. Except me, the kalista top player
how do you play her as top? can she be good?
Ye thing is Vayne and Ashe are better top laners
Kali is one of my fav ADCs, i really hope she comes back properly to a good spot
as a support main kalista is still one of the most fun adc's to play with and against. the dashes make landing skill shots feel so much better. and playing with her and landing cc is so nice.
When I first got her she was probably my first impulse purchase, let alone with riot points. I was a newbie and refused to play any other champion (to the annoyance of my friends). She’s one of my only lvl7s and it’s a shame I can never play her and have fun. Really hope you’re right about her comeback.
The last moment in "rise" song by riot, you see a guy at the end grab her weapon, "unaware", i actualy found it very emotive 😥
When Kalista was first released I built AS... and everyone told me I was wrong. Jokes on you f***s.
Exil: She had less than a 1% pick rate
Me a tahm kench support player: *chuckles*
Me a tahm top player:laughw
I'll say this as a support main. I haven't started that long ago (about 550 games in total) and played with a Kallista only twice but those were the two of the most enjoyable games I've ever had. That ult can hard counter almost all engaging CC supports (Leona/Pyke/Blitz comes in mind for now, Thresh to some extent too I think) and I still can't forget about the game when the first Kallista told me how her ult works. There was an annoying Blitz as en supp ( you know those toxic ones, laughing, spamming emotes, flashing mastery and all that) trying to tilt us but we played safe initially and once she and I both hit lv6, I got hooked on purpose, Kallista ulted, then I launched myself flanking them and ulted too(I was playing Sona), hit both that Blitz and the adc, and got two of the cleanest kills I've ever been a part of. That Blitz got killed 6 or 7 times during the laning phase and en adc flamed him real bad in all chat for being toxic and useless at the same time.
Man I wish I could play with more Kallistas!
Playing on EUW? :D
@@kalimin33 Nah NA
Beautiful breakdown! Great work m8! More power to you!
i'm still waiting for the fall of kaisa
me too
Don't think that'll ever happen. She's like Yasuo, Fizz, Riven, a very overloaded kit. Those champs can be 'weak' depending on the patch, but never too much, especially in the hands of good players.
@@AntonioZL Hahahaha. HA HA HA.
and xayah and tristana for gods fucks sake
@@JackalEtheriasu don't get it.
What about Kog'maw? He's been kind of shelved since they failed at trying to rework him, and as much as I love him, he's just hard to play when everyone has a dash and burst.
Play aphelios till they figure how to rework kog-naw into a actual void-centric champion. He literally look like sombody made a bi-pedal chimera alien thing gone wrong in a secret Zaun Laboratory than a void dweller like cho'/ kha'/Rek'
I am main adc and i have tô say. If there one ad i Will always lose os kog maw. He with a peel sup (think lulu as the perfect) is a Monster. His early game is far from being weak and Just melt everything late. When i play kog lulu i only lose when i throw reaaally hard ir when my team do this for me
The problem with Kalista is that she wants to build attack speed, but if you utilize her passive with high enough attack speeds you lose so much DPS. She wants attack speed yet it can't even be fully used with her passive.
there's a wall at around 1.8 AS :(
I used to love playing kalista so much, I tried to pick her this season and... My supports didn't know how to play along, people just forgot about her and seeing that a season 10 might be her comeback makes me so God damn happy
I picked up Kalista a little over a month ago and she’s by far my favorite ADC, idk if i’ve just been having competent supports or not but in around 60 games i’ve gone from no mastery points to mastery 7 with her and she’s my most played and high win rate champion in ranked. Hoping she could still get some more love to put her at the same level as ADCs like kai
I feel like these days, especially in lower ranks, people lose to her because they underestimate the champion (she's still a carry at the end of the day :P) and that no one knows the matchup. I've talked to ADC mains who started playing the game in s9-10 and they've only played against her once or twice and have no idea how she works (which makes it more fun to stomp people with tbh). I'm really happy to see people in s11 enjoying my favourite ADC so much and I hope you keep at her in the long run through the inevitable flame you'll get for picking her solo, it's so worth it
@@davidpoirier5945 yeah whenever i do poorly people say “it’s your fault for picking an off meta champion.” and other dumb stuff. i don’t play the game for the meta, i play the game to enjoy myself. I’ve been playing since around season 3 so i’m a bit overly aware of what every champion does haha. it is fun to catch people off guard by chunking their health with a rend though 🤪
@@aodhanmartinez Rend is the best part because it's basically socially acceptable to KS to reset your E :P I completely agree with playing for fun tho, I used to be a pre-rework Urgot main (may his soul lay in peace) but he got deleted so I had to find another fun and off-the-wall champion, and meta stuff is usually boring as sin anyway