Kalista
Computed from 105,083 ranked Solo/Duo games collected through the Riot API · patch 26.21.
| Role | Win Rate | Pick Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Top | 48.7% | 0.3% |
| ADC | 48.7% | 3.2% |
Kalista is banned in about 1.2% of games at this tier, one figure for the whole champion since bans happen before roles are picked. What ban rate measures.
Kalista's ADC win rate is 1.3 percentage points below an even 50% — Should I Dodge's win-probability model varies by about 4.8 percentage points of standard deviation from lobby to lobby across all ranks, purely from which champions get drawn, so this gap is smaller than that noise, not solid evidence the champion is unusually strong or weak right now.
Kalista is tracked in 2 roles at this tier scope; the per-tier, threat, and counters reporting below all use its highest-pick-rate role, ADC — its numbers in Top (0.3% pick rate) stay visible in the table above but aren't carried into the rest of this page.
Kalista's ADC Build
In Emerald+ games on patch 26.22 (including games from other ranks or the previous patch, as Emerald+ on this patch alone had too few), Kalista's most common ADC setup runs Exhaust and Flash with Lethal Tempo, maxes E first, and builds Statikk Shiv, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus — 34.9% win rate over 69 games.
- Summoner spells
Exhaust + Flash
6.7%34 games - Runes
Lethal Tempo + Domination
34.4%29 games - Skill priority E > Q > W 35.3%67 games
- Starter
Doran's Bow + Health Potion ×2
29.5%60 games - Boots
Gluttonous Greaves
49.1%48 games - First three items
Statikk Shiv → Guinsoo's Rageblade → Terminus
39.6%44 games
Kalista's ADC Win Rate By Tier
| Tier | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Games | Edge (noise-widths) | Clears 0.5σ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron | 49.1% | 2.4% | 5,659 | 0.12σ | No |
| Bronze | 47.5% | 2.6% | 7,596 | 0.41σ | No |
| Silver | 48.9% | 2.8% | 10,214 | 0.18σ | No |
| Gold | 48.5% | 3.1% | 12,941 | 0.28σ | No |
| Platinum | 48.5% | 3.6% | 16,087 | 0.31σ | No |
| Emerald | 49.7% | 4.2% | 14,902 | 0.07σ | No |
| Diamond | 49.1% | 5.0% | 16,641 | 0.20σ | No |
| Master | 49.5% | 7.2% | 12,308 | 0.11σ | No |
| Grandmaster | 50.1% | 9.6% | 1,036 | 0.01σ | No |
| Challenger | 53.4% | 10.4% | 243 | 0.28σ | No |
Kalista's ADC win rate ranges from 47.5% at Bronze to 53.4% at Challenger across the 10 of 10 ranked tiers with at least 200 games in this role — a 5.9-point spread. Measured against each tier's own noise floor, that's 0.28σ at Challenger and 0.41σ at Bronze, with neither clearing the 0.5σ bar Should I Dodge itself requires before calling a reading anything but Neutral.
- Power curve
- Strong early game
- Threats
- Sustained auto-attack damage
Curated reads, not measured: how we judge these
Who Counters Kalista in ADC?
Champions That Counter Kalista
| Champion | Win Rate vs Kalista | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Aurora |
58.6% | 1.80σ |
Karthus |
57.2% | 1.51σ |
Vladimir |
56.9% | 1.44σ |
Aurelion Sol |
56.5% | 1.35σ |
Irelia |
56.3% | 1.33σ |
Champions Kalista Counters
| Champion | Win Rate vs Kalista | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Yone |
42.2% | 1.63σ |
Ezreal |
45.2% | 1.01σ |
Heimerdinger |
45.6% | 0.92σ |
Twisted Fate |
45.7% | 0.90σ |
Zed |
46.0% | 0.84σ |
At most five champions are listed in each direction for Kalista: 5 listed as countering it here, 5 it counters back, with a tight, 2-point spread — none of them stand out much from the others among them — most matchups you could actually face in a real game simply aren't covered.