Best Kalista Build & Guide (2026) — League of Legends

Kalista is League of Legends' Spear of Vengeance — a spectral marksman bound by an oath of vengeance who hunts down those who betray their allies. Kalista is unique among ADCs because her passive, Martial Poise, replaces her normal auto-attack animation with a dash after every basic attack, making her the most mobile marksman in the game during combat. She is primarily played in the bot lane as an ADC where her combination of infinite kiting from Martial Poise, objective control from Rend stacking on Dragon and Baron, vision control from Sentinel, and engage utility from Fate's Call make her one of the most mechanically demanding but rewarding marksmen in the game — capable of dodging every skillshot while auto-attacking, securing every contested objective with Rend execute, and initiating teamfights by launching her Oathsworn support into the enemy team. Whether you're an ADC main looking for a high-skill-ceiling carry who rewards precise mouse movement and attack-move mechanics or a player who wants a marksman with unmatched objective control and kiting, this guide covers everything you need to dominate with Kalista in 2026.

Kalista Overview

Kalista operates as a hyper-mobile on-hit marksman whose unique identity comes from Martial Poise — a passive that causes Kalista to dash a short distance in the direction she is moving after every basic attack or Pierce cast. This dash replaces her normal auto-attack animation, meaning Kalista is constantly repositioning during combat. The dash distance scales with boot tier, making boots an essential early purchase. Martial Poise makes Kalista nearly impossible to hit with skillshots during extended fights because she can change direction with every auto-attack, but it also means Kalista's auto-attack damage is reduced to 90% of her total AD, a penalty that offsets her extreme mobility.

Pierce (Q) is Kalista's skillshot poke and utility tool. Kalista hurls a spear in a line that deals physical damage to the first enemy hit. If Pierce kills the target, the spear continues through the dead unit and passes to the next enemy behind it, carrying over all Rend stacks from the killed unit. This mechanic lets Kalista transfer Rend stacks through dying minions onto enemy champions, enabling surprise burst trades where the enemy suddenly has multiple Rend stacks applied without Kalista ever auto-attacking them directly. Pierce also triggers Martial Poise, allowing Kalista to dash after casting it.

Sentinel (W) is Kalista's vision and synergy tool. The active sends out a spectral sentinel that patrols a path toward a target location, revealing the area as it travels. The sentinel grants long-range vision for objective control, bush checking, and tracking enemy jungler pathing. The passive component is equally important — when Kalista and her Oathsworn ally (bound at the start of the game with The Black Spear) both auto-attack the same target within a short window, the target takes bonus magic damage based on their maximum health. This Soul-Marked passive procs deal significant damage in lane trades and incentivize coordinated attacking with the support.

Rend (E) is the ability that defines Kalista's kit. Every basic attack and Pierce lodges a spear in the target. Rend's active rips out all lodged spears from all nearby enemies, dealing physical damage that increases with each additional spear beyond the first. If Rend kills at least one target, its cooldown resets and the mana cost is refunded. Rend is Kalista's primary damage ability, her waveclear tool, her objective secure, and her trading pattern in lane. Stacking multiple spears on a target and then Rending for massive damage is Kalista's bread and butter — and the cooldown reset on kill means she can Rend minions and champions simultaneously to guarantee the reset while dealing damage to enemy champions.

Fate's Call (R) is Kalista's ultimate and one of the most powerful engage tools in bot lane. Kalista pulls her Oathsworn ally to her location, making them untargetable during the pull. The ally can then dash in a chosen direction, stopping at the first enemy champion hit and knocking up all nearby enemies for a brief duration. Fate's Call serves as both an engage tool — launching an aggressive support like Leona or Nautilus into the enemy team — and a disengage tool — pulling the Oathsworn ally out of danger when they are caught or about to die. The knock-up from the ally's dash is an AOE displacement that cannot be cleansed or reduced by tenacity, making it one of the most reliable teamfight initiation tools in the game.

Strengths

• Martial Poise grants Kalista a dash after every auto-attack, making her the most mobile ADC in the game during combat and allowing her to dodge skillshots, kite melee champions indefinitely, and reposition constantly in teamfights in ways no other marksman can replicate — While other ADCs must choose between standing still to auto-attack and moving to dodge, Kalista does both simultaneously. This makes her nearly untouchable against skillshot-reliant champions and allows her to kite backwards against bruisers and tanks who have no way to reach her
• Rend provides unmatched objective control because Kalista can stack spears on Dragon and Baron and then Rend for a massive burst of true-damage-like execute, outsmiting junglers and securing contested objectives with a precision that no other champion can match — The damage from Rend stacks is visible and calculable, letting Kalista time her Rend to execute objectives at a threshold higher than Smite. This makes 50/50 objective coinflips heavily favor Kalista's team
• Fate's Call is both the strongest ADC engage tool and a powerful disengage save, giving Kalista unique utility that no other marksman provides — she can launch her support into the enemy backline for a guaranteed AOE knock-up initiation or pull her support out of lethal danger to safety — The versatility of Fate's Call means Kalista's team always has an extra engage or disengage option available, and the knock-up is uncleansable, making it reliable even against tenacity-stacking enemies
• Rend cooldown resets on kill, allowing Kalista to Rend minions for guaranteed resets while simultaneously dealing Rend damage to enemy champions in the same activation — this dual-target Rend mechanic gives Kalista a unique trading pattern in lane where she can deal burst damage to champions without losing her Rend cooldown — Skilled Kalista players stack spears on both minions and champions, then Rend to kill the minion (guaranteeing reset and mana refund) while chunking the enemy champion with accumulated spear damage

Weaknesses

• Kalista's auto-attack damage is reduced to 90% of her total AD by Martial Poise, meaning she deals inherently less damage per auto-attack than other ADCs at the same item thresholds, and she scales poorly with raw AD and critical strike compared to traditional crit-based marksmen — This AD penalty means Kalista cannot match the late-game DPS of hypercarries like Jinx, Kog'Maw, or Aphelios in straight auto-attack fights, and crit builds are suboptimal because the 90% AD penalty reduces the value of each critical strike
• Kalista is extremely dependent on her Oathsworn support for both laning trades (Soul-Marked passive procs) and teamfight engagement (Fate's Call), making her the most support-reliant ADC in the game — a bad support matchup or poor support synergy cripples Kalista more than any other marksman — If the Oathsworn support is playing passively, roaming, or dead, Kalista loses both her W passive damage in trades and her R engage/disengage tool, effectively playing with only three abilities
• Martial Poise dashes are reduced in distance when Kalista is slowed, and hard slows can make the dashes so short that Kalista effectively cannot kite, turning her greatest strength into a liability against champions with persistent slow effects — Slows like Nasus Wither, Frozen Heart, or Randuin's Omen active reduce Martial Poise dash distance dramatically, and a heavily slowed Kalista is worse than a normal ADC because she still has the 90% AD penalty but without meaningful mobility
• Kalista has no ability that scales with ability power and limited utility from items beyond on-hit effects, making her itemization narrow and predictable — enemies always know Kalista will build on-hit and attack speed items, making it easy to itemize defensively with armor and attack speed reduction — Kalista cannot flex between builds the way Kai'Sa or Ezreal can, and her reliance on on-hit damage means a single Frozen Heart or Randuin's Omen significantly reduces her effective DPS

Recommended Runes

Primary — Lethal Tempo (Precision)

• Lethal Tempo — Grants stacking attack speed on successive auto-attacks against enemy champions, up to a cap that also grants bonus attack range. Lethal Tempo is Kalista's optimal keystone because attack speed directly increases her DPS and her Martial Poise dash frequency — more auto-attacks per second means more dashes per second, making Kalista exponentially harder to hit as the fight continues. The bonus attack range at max stacks helps Kalista auto-attack from safer distances, partially compensating for her 525 base range. Lethal Tempo synergizes with Kalista's extended-fight playstyle where she stacks spears with Rend before executing.
• Presence of Mind — Restores mana on champion takedowns and increases mana regeneration while damaging enemy champions. Presence of Mind solves Kalista's mana issues in lane where she frequently uses Q for poke and E (Rend) for trading. Rend costs mana on every cast even when the cooldown resets on kill, and Kalista can go through her mana pool quickly during extended laning trades. The mana regeneration while fighting keeps Kalista's Rend available throughout skirmishes.
• Legend: Alacrity — Grants permanent bonus attack speed from champion takedowns, large monster kills, and minion kills. Legend: Alacrity provides scaling attack speed that increases Kalista's DPS and Martial Poise dash frequency as the game progresses. More attack speed means more spears lodged in targets faster, which means bigger Rend damage. The passive stacking throughout the game smooths Kalista's scaling and helps her stay relevant in the mid-to-late game.
• Last Stand — Increases damage dealt when at low health. Last Stand provides bonus damage during close fights when Kalista is below half health. Kalista's Martial Poise kiting often lets her survive at low health in extended duels — she dashes away while auto-attacking, dealing increased damage the lower her health drops. Last Stand rewards Kalista's pattern of sustained fighting at low health rather than dying or disengaging, and the bonus damage can turn close fights in her favor.

Secondary — Domination

• Taste of Blood — Heals Kalista when she damages an enemy champion. Taste of Blood provides sustain during short trades in the laning phase. Kalista's aggressive trading pattern with auto-attack stacking and Rend means she takes return damage frequently, and the heal from Taste of Blood keeps her healthy enough to continue trading. The cooldown aligns with Kalista's trade-then-farm-then-trade-again laning pattern.
• Treasure Hunter — Grants bonus gold from unique champion takedowns. Treasure Hunter accelerates Kalista's item progression by providing extra gold from kills and assists on unique enemy champions. Kalista spikes hard with completed on-hit items, and faster gold generation means faster item completions. Since Kalista's power is tied to attack speed and on-hit item breakpoints, accelerating gold directly accelerates her damage scaling.

Recommended Item Build

Based on data from over 9,400 ranked Kalista matches tracked on dodge.gg, here's the highest winrate build path.

Early Game (0–10 min)

• Doran's Blade — Grants attack damage, health, and omnivamp. Doran's Blade is Kalista's standard start because the AD improves her auto-attack and Rend damage, the health provides survivability in aggressive lane trades, and the omnivamp sustains Kalista through poke damage. Kalista's frequent auto-attacking maximizes the omnivamp healing from Doran's Blade.
• Health Potion — Restores health over time. A Health Potion supplements Doran's Blade omnivamp and provides emergency sustain after unfavorable trades. Kalista's aggressive laning pattern means she takes frequent trade damage, making the extra healing necessary to stay in lane through the first few backs.
• Boots — Grants movement speed and increases Martial Poise dash distance. Early boots are more important on Kalista than any other ADC because Martial Poise dash distance scales directly with boot tier. Tier 1 boots noticeably increase Kalista's kiting range and dodge distance, making boots an essential first-back purchase for survivability and trading power.

Core Build (10–20 min)

• Blade of the Ruined King — Grants attack damage, attack speed, and lifesteal, with a passive that deals bonus physical damage based on the target's current health on each auto-attack. Blade of the Ruined King is Kalista's optimal first item because the on-hit current-health damage synergizes with her attack speed-focused playstyle and spear stacking. Each auto-attack deals BotRK on-hit damage and lodges a Rend spear, meaning Kalista's sustained damage output scales multiplicatively with attack speed. The lifesteal provides sustain in extended fights, and the current-health damage shreds tanks and bruisers that try to walk through Kalista's kite path.
• Berserker's Greaves — Grants attack speed and movement speed, and increases Martial Poise dash distance to tier 2 boot level. Berserker's Greaves are essential on Kalista for three reasons: the attack speed increases her DPS and spear stacking rate, the movement speed improves kiting, and the boot tier upgrade maximizes Martial Poise dash distance. Kalista's dash at tier 2 boots is significantly longer than at tier 1, making this upgrade a major power spike for her mobility.
• Guinsoo's Rageblade — Grants attack damage, ability power, and attack speed, with a passive that converts critical strike chance into bonus on-hit damage and grants stacking Phantom Hit — every third auto-attack applies on-hit effects twice. Guinsoo's Rageblade is Kalista's signature second item because Phantom Hit double-applies all on-hit effects including Blade of the Ruined King's current-health damage and Rend spear stacking. Every third auto-attack lodges two Rend spears instead of one, dramatically increasing Rend burst damage. The on-hit conversion is more valuable than critical strikes on Kalista because her 90% AD penalty reduces crit value.

Late Game (25+ min)

• Runaan's Hurricane — Grants attack speed and critical strike chance, with a passive that fires two additional bolts at nearby enemies on each auto-attack. Runaan's Hurricane transforms Kalista's teamfight presence because each bolt lodges Rend spears in secondary targets and applies on-hit effects from Blade of the Ruined King. Kalista can stack Rend spears on three enemies simultaneously, then Rend to deal massive AOE damage. Hurricane bolts also trigger Guinsoo's Phantom Hit counter, meaning every auto-attack effectively stacks spears on multiple targets at an accelerated rate.
• Wit's End — Grants attack speed, magic resistance, and a passive that deals bonus magic damage on-hit. Wit's End adds another on-hit damage layer that benefits from Guinsoo's Phantom Hit and Runaan's bolt application. The magic damage diversifies Kalista's damage profile, making it harder for enemies to itemize purely armor against her. The magic resistance provides survivability against AP threats who can burst Kalista during teamfights. Wit's End is the defensive-offensive hybrid item that keeps Kalista alive while increasing her damage.
• Guardian Angel — Grants attack damage and armor, with a passive that revives Kalista upon death. Guardian Angel provides insurance for teamfights where Kalista gets caught by unavoidable burst or AOE damage. Kalista's value in fights is tied to her sustained auto-attacking and Rend stacking — dying early in a fight removes all her stacked spears and DPS. The revive gives Kalista a second chance to continue stacking and Rending in prolonged teamfights. The AD and armor provide offensive and defensive stats.

Ability Priority

1. Rend (E) — Max first. Each rank increases Rend's base damage per spear and the damage per additional spear, directly increasing Kalista's burst and trading damage. Rend is Kalista's most important ability because it is her primary damage tool, her waveclear, her objective secure, and her lane trading pattern. Maxing E first provides the most damage per skill point and makes even two-or-three-spear Rends deal meaningful damage in lane trades. E max also reduces the mana cost, letting Kalista trade more frequently.
2. Pierce (Q) — Max second. Each rank increases Pierce's base damage and reduces its mana cost. Q max second provides improved poke damage in lane, better waveclear through minion-piercing mechanics, and a stronger Rend-stack transfer tool. The damage increase per rank is significant for finishing low-health targets at range and for transferring Rend stacks through dying minions onto enemy champions. Lower mana cost per rank means Kalista can use Q more liberally in mid-game skirmishes.
3. Sentinel (W) — Max last. Sentinel's primary value is the vision scouting on active and the Soul-Marked passive proc damage on the first auto-attack sync with the Oathsworn, neither of which scale dramatically with ranks. A single point in W provides the full vision scouting functionality and the Soul-Marked passive. The passive damage does increase with ranks and with Kalista's level, but Q and E provide more consistent value per skill point. W max last is standard because the ability functions at full utility with a single point.
4. Fate's Call (R) — Level when available at 6, 11, and 16. Each rank reduces the cooldown of Fate's Call. Rank-ups are significant powerspikes because the reduced cooldown lets Kalista use Fate's Call more frequently for engage or disengage in skirmishes and objective fights. Having Fate's Call available for every Dragon or Baron fight is critical for Kalista's team utility.

Playstyle Tips

Early Game / Laning Phase

Kalista's early game is about establishing lane control through aggressive auto-attack trading with Soul-Marked passive procs, stacking Rend spears on enemy champions and minions simultaneously for efficient trades, and securing every contested cannon minion and jungle camp with precise Rend executes. Kalista is a lane-dominant ADC who wants to leverage her Martial Poise mobility and support synergy to win the 2v2 from level 1.

Trade aggressively with your support by coordinating auto-attacks on the same target to proc Soul-Marked passive. Both Kalista and her Oathsworn auto-attacking the same enemy within a short window triggers bonus magic damage based on the target's maximum health. This passive proc deals significant damage at all points in the laning phase and is Kalista's primary trading advantage. Communicate with your support to focus the same target and proc Soul-Marked as frequently as possible.

Stack Rend spears during trades by auto-attacking the enemy champion multiple times, then Rend to rip out the spears for burst damage. The optimal trading pattern is to auto-attack two to four times while dashing with Martial Poise to dodge return damage, then Rend for burst. If possible, stack spears on a low-health minion and the enemy champion at the same time — Rending to kill the minion resets E's cooldown and refunds the mana while also dealing the Rend damage to the enemy champion.

Use Martial Poise to dodge skillshots during trades. After every auto-attack, Kalista dashes in the direction she is moving. Input movement commands between auto-attacks to dash sideways or backwards, dodging enemy abilities like Blitzcrank Hook, Thresh Flay, or Morgana Binding while maintaining auto-attack DPS. The ability to dodge while attacking is Kalista's core mechanical advantage and separates good Kalista players from great ones.

Use Sentinel to scout the river and tribush for jungle ganks. Sending a Sentinel toward the river on a timer provides advance warning of enemy jungler approaches, reducing the need for deep ward placement and freeing up ward charges for bush control in lane.

Mid Game

Mid-game Kalista with Blade of the Ruined King is a potent objective controller and skirmisher who secures every contested Dragon and Baron with Rend execute, engages teamfights by launching her Oathsworn support with Fate's Call, and kites through extended skirmishes with Martial Poise while stacking Rend spears for devastating burst executes. The mid game is where Kalista's objective control becomes the defining feature of her team's game plan.

Prioritize Dragon and Baron control above all else. Kalista's Rend on epic monsters is the most reliable objective secure in the game. Stack spears on Dragon or Baron continuously while your team fights around the pit, then Rend to execute the objective at a health threshold higher than Smite can match. The enemy jungler cannot 50/50 an objective against Kalista because her Rend execute is more precise and deals more burst damage than Smite at high spear counts.

Use Fate's Call to initiate teamfights around objectives. Pull your Oathsworn support to you, then they dash into the enemy team for an AOE knock-up. The ideal Fate's Call engage launches a tanky support like Leona, Nautilus, or Thresh directly into the enemy backline, knocking up carries and creating chaos for your team to follow up on. Time the Fate's Call engage when the enemy team is clustered around an objective and cannot easily dodge the knock-up.

In skirmishes, focus on sustained auto-attacking to stack Rend spears while kiting with Martial Poise. Do not Rend early — let spears stack to three, four, or five before Rending for maximum burst. The only exception is when an enemy is about to leave Rend range (1100 units) and you need to Rend before the spears are lost. Track enemy positions relative to Rend range and Rend just before they escape.

Coordinate with your support for Soul-Marked procs in mid-game skirmishes. The percentage-health magic damage from Soul-Marked adds up significantly in extended fights, especially against tankier targets. Ping the target you want to focus so your support knows to auto-attack the same enemy.

Late Game

Late-game Kalista with a full on-hit build is a teamfight DPS machine who stacks Rend spears on multiple targets through Runaan's Hurricane bolts, secures every Baron and Dragon with undeniable Rend execute, and kites indefinitely through fights with maximum attack speed Martial Poise dashing while her on-hit damage shreds frontlines and carries alike. The combination of Runaan's multi-target spear stacking, Guinsoo's Phantom Hit double-spearing, and BotRK on-hit damage makes full-build Kalista's sustained DPS devastating across the entire enemy team.

In teamfights, position behind your frontline and auto-attack the nearest safe target while Runaan's bolts stack Rend spears on adjacent enemies. Do not tunnel-vision on killing one target — let Hurricane bolts spread spears across multiple enemies, then Rend for AOE burst damage when spear counts are high. A five-spear Rend on three enemies deals more total damage than a ten-spear Rend on one enemy, and the AOE burst can turn a teamfight instantly.

Use Martial Poise to kite backwards against diving bruisers and assassins. At full build with Berserker's Greaves and maximum attack speed, Kalista's dashes are rapid and long enough to outrun most melee champions. Auto-attack-move-auto-attack-move in a pattern that maintains maximum distance from divers while continuously lodging spears. The diver cannot reach Kalista if she inputs movement commands correctly between every auto-attack.

Save Fate's Call for the highest-value moment in each teamfight. Sometimes the best use is launching the support for an engage knock-up at the fight's start; other times the best use is pulling the support out of a lethal situation mid-fight. Evaluate whether engage or disengage provides more value before committing Fate's Call. In fights where your team is ahead, use Fate's Call aggressively for engage; in fights where your team is behind or even, hold it as a defensive save.

In late-game objective fights, Kalista's Rend execute becomes even more powerful because her attack speed lets her stack spears on Baron or Dragon faster than ever. A full-build Kalista can stack ten or more Rend spears on Baron in seconds, creating an execute threshold so high that the enemy jungler has no realistic chance of outsmiting. Always be the one auto-attacking the objective while your team zones the enemy away.

Matchups

Favorable

• Kog'Maw — Kog'Maw is a hyperscaling ADC who relies on Bio-Arcane Barrage range to deal percentage-health damage from a safe distance. Kalista has a favorable matchup because Kog'Maw has no mobility and cannot escape Kalista's aggressive laning pattern. Kalista's Martial Poise dashes let her dodge Kog'Maw's Living Artillery and Void Ooze while auto-attacking him freely, and Kog'Maw cannot match Kalista's early lane pressure with Soul-Marked procs. Rend burst easily kills the immobile Kog'Maw in all-ins, and Fate's Call engage on Kog'Maw is a near-guaranteed kill.
• Twitch — Twitch is a stealth-based ADC who relies on ambush positioning and Spray and Pray for teamfight damage. Kalista has a favorable matchup because Sentinel reveals Twitch's stealth approaches, and Kalista's aggressive lane presence bullies Twitch before he can scale. Twitch's low health pool and lack of defensive abilities make him an easy Rend execute target, and Martial Poise lets Kalista dodge Contaminate's range by dashing away after trades.
• Ashe — Ashe is a utility ADC who relies on Frost Shot slows and Enchanted Crystal Arrow engage. Kalista has a favorable matchup in lane because her Martial Poise dashes let her dodge Volley poke and Enchanted Crystal Arrow while continuously stacking Rend spears. Ashe's slow from Frost Shot does reduce Kalista's dash distance, but in the laning phase Kalista's aggressive Soul-Marked trading and Rend burst overwhelm Ashe before the slow becomes a serious problem. Kalista wins all-ins decisively because Ashe has no burst or dash to escape Rend execute.

Even

• Jinx — Jinx is a hyperscaling ADC who switches between minigun attack speed and rocket long-range poke. The matchup is even because Jinx outranges Kalista with rockets and has stronger late-game teamfight DPS with Get Excited resets, but Kalista wins lane trades with Martial Poise kiting and Rend burst. Flame Chompers can restrict Kalista's dash paths, trapping her if she dashes into a chomper. Kalista wins early and mid-game skirmishes, but Jinx outscales in teamfight DPS if the game goes long enough.
• Ezreal — Ezreal is a safe, poke-oriented ADC with Arcane Shift blink and Mystic Shot poke. The matchup is even because Ezreal's blink lets him escape Kalista's all-in range and his Mystic Shot poke harasses Kalista from outside her auto-attack range. However, Kalista's Martial Poise dashes let her dodge Mystic Shot and Essence Flux while auto-attacking, and if Kalista closes the gap, Ezreal's lower sustained DPS loses to Rend stack burst. The matchup depends on whether Kalista can force extended trades or Ezreal can poke and kite safely.
• Tristana — Tristana is a burst-and-reset ADC with Rocket Jump resets and Explosive Charge bomb damage. The matchup is even because Tristana's all-in burst with Explosive Charge can kill Kalista before she stacks enough Rend spears, and Rocket Jump lets Tristana escape Rend range. However, Kalista's Martial Poise lets her dodge Rocket Jump landing damage and kite Tristana during the Explosive Charge timer. The matchup is decided by whether Tristana lands her all-in combo or Kalista kites it out.

Unfavorable

• Draven — Draven is an early-game lane bully who deals massive damage with Spinning Axes. Kalista struggles in this matchup because Draven's Spinning Axe auto-attacks deal far more damage per hit than Kalista's 90%-AD autos, and his raw damage output overwhelms Kalista's Rend trading in short exchanges. Draven's Blood Rush movement speed lets him chase Kalista through her Martial Poise dashes, and his early kill pressure can snowball the lane before Kalista completes Blade of the Ruined King.
• Caitlyn — Caitlyn is a long-range ADC who dominates lane with 650 auto-attack range and Piltover Peacemaker poke. Kalista struggles because Caitlyn's range advantage means she can auto-attack Kalista without Kalista being able to auto back, and Yordle Snap Traps restrict Kalista's Martial Poise dash paths in lane. Caitlyn's early poke damage chunks Kalista's health before she can stack Rend spears, and 90 Caliber Net provides escape when Kalista tries to all-in. The range mismatch is Kalista's biggest weakness in this lane.
• Miss Fortune — Miss Fortune is a lane bully with Double Up bounce damage and Bullet Time ultimate. Kalista struggles because Double Up bouncing off a dying minion deals massive damage that Kalista cannot dodge with Martial Poise since the bounce is targeted. Miss Fortune's Strut movement speed and Make It Rain slow let her trade aggressively while reducing Kalista's Martial Poise dash distance. Bullet Time in teamfights forces Kalista to either dash out of the cone (losing DPS) or stand and fight (taking massive damage), creating a lose-lose scenario.

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