CHAMPIONSKalista
Kalista
CHAMPION · ADC

Kalista

Verified across 3 sourcesLast updated · 2026-05-26
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Overview

last updated 2026-05-26
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I've kind of moved like champions down overall cuz I just had way too many champions in the A tier. I think Civ, Samira, Kalista, and Varys are just weaker overall. Samira just struggles because she just doesn't really do a lot of burst damage.
itzstu4rt · patch 7.1b · (01:03:53)
Open questions (4)
  1. 01~~Build path~~ — answered for 7.1e in [[#Build (WR Meta, 7.1e)]] (2026-05-26)
  2. 02~~Rune setup~~ — answered alongside builds above (2026-05-26)
  3. 03Power-spike timings
  4. 04Specific matchups
02

Tier history

5 entries · 3 sources · 3 patches
PatchSourceRoleTierΔDateNotes
7.1ehellsdeviladcB=2026-05-19
7.1eroyaladcA=2026-05-17
7.1ditzstu4rtadcB·2026-05-08
7.1droyaladcA·2026-05-08
7.1hellsdeviladcB·2026-05-08
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Builds

1 source
WR Metaaggregator statspatch 7.1e
WR49.84%PR4.99%BR3.32%
Items (in order)
Blade of the Ruined King
Blade of the Ruined KingAttacks deal bonus damage
  • +25 Attack Damage
  • +35% Attack Speed

Thirst: +10% Omni Vamp.

Ruined Strikes: Attacks deal bonus physical damage equal to 8.5% of the enemy's current Health on-hit. (Melee attacks deal 10%). Minion damage: 15. Max damage vs monsters: 60.

Drain: Hitting a champion with 3 attacks or abilities deals 30-100 bonus magic damage and steals 25% of their Move Speed for 2 seconds. (60s Cooldown)

3000 gold
Berserker's Greaves
Berserker's GreavesAttack Speed
  • +25% Attack Speed
  • +45 Move Speed.

Blessed Blade: Reduces Attacks restore 10 Health on hit.

900 gold
Runaan's Hurricane
Runaan's HurricaneRanged Attacks hit 3 targets
  • +35% Attack Speed
  • +25% Critical Rate

Wind's Fury: Attacks strike 2 additional nearby enemies, each dealing 55%. These strikes can Critically Strike and trigger on-hit effects.

Wind Blade: Attacks deal 15 bonus physical damage on-hit against targets.

2900 gold
Guinsoo's Rageblade
Guinsoo's RagebladeApplies on-hit effects
  • +30% Attack Speed

Surge: Gain 5% Move Speed.

Chaos: Gain 25 Attack Damage or 50 Ability Power (Adaptive).

Wrath: Attacks deal 30 magic damage but no longer Critical Strike. Fore every 1% Critical Strike Rate gained from items, your magic damage increases by 1.5, up to a max increase of 75 (reached at 50% Critical Rate).

Seething Strike: Attacks grant 8% Attack Speed, staking up to 4 times for a maximum of 32% Attack Speed). While fully stacked, every 3 attacks applies on-hit effects an additional 1 times.

3100 gold
Terminus
TerminusIncreases Armor Pen, Megic Pen, Armor, and Magic Resist
  • +40 Attack Damage
  • +30% Attack Speed

Shadow: Attacks deal 35 bonus magic damage on-hit.

Juxtaposition: Alternate between Light and Dark on-hits when attacking. Light attacks grant 5-8 Armor and Magic Resist for 5 seconds on hit. Dark attacks grant 11% Armor Pen and 11% Magic Pen for 5 seconds on hit. Each on-hit effect stacks up to 3 times. While you have this item, bonus Armor Pen and Magic Pen granted by it is capped at 40%.

3300 gold
Soul Transfer
Soul TransferSummon a clone that attacks alongside you
  • +25 Attack Damage
  • +25% Critical Rate
  • +30% Attack Speed

Shadow Dance: When your attack Critically Strikes an enemy champion or a large monster, summon a clone that lasts 4 second(s) to attack nearby enemies. The clone inherits 20% of your Attack Damage and additionally gains 30% of your Critical Rate as Attack Speed. Up to two clones can exist at one time.If a clone moves more than 600 units away from you, it will disappear early.

3200 gold
Runes
Lethal Tempo
KeystoneLethal Tempo
Lethal TempoKeystone

Gain stackable Attack Speed when attacking enemy champions. Stacks up to 6 times. At max stacks, you gain bonus range and can exceed your Attack Speed cap. Each stack increases Attack Speed by 8 – 16% (melee) or 3 – 10% (ranged) for 6 seconds. At max stacks, gain 50 (melee) or 75 (ranged) Attack Distance.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Brutal
BrutalMinor · Precision

Attacks deal 6 (+ 8% Bonus Attack Damage) bonus adaptive damage to enemy champions.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Coup de Grace
Coup de GraceMinor · Precision

When an enemy has less than 40% health, deals 8% bonus adaptive damage.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Legend: Alacrity
Legend: AlacrityMinor · Precision

Gain 3% bonus attack speed when engaging in taking down monsters, enemy champions and minions, up to 20% at maximum stacks.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Sudden Impact
Sudden ImpactMinor · Domination

Damaging an enemy champion deals a bonus 10–80 true damage after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or when exiting stealth for 4s. (10s cooldown) The damaging attack/ability gains bonuses at higher levels: Level 5: Deal an additional 10 true damage. Level 9: Deal an additional 20 true damage and gain 10% Movement Speed for 1.5s after dealing the damage.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Skill priority
EQW
Spells
FlashFlashHealHeal

Source: [[Sources/web-pages/2026-05-26-wrmeta-kalista-build-7.1e|WR Meta]] · sampling: Diamond / Master / Challenger (Legendary tier).

Situational item swaps (explicit):

  • Quicksilver Enchant or Stasis Enchant — boot enchant, depending on playstyle
  • Mortal Reminder — when enemies have healing/high armor
  • Wit's End — against magic damage threats

Counters / threats: Nilah, Senna, Smolder, Vayne, Lulu, Maokai, Sona, Taliyah

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Commentary

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itzstu4rtauto· Auto-extracted commentary (iTzSTU4RT, 7.1b)
patch 7.1b

Generated by /wr-extract from iTzSTU4RT's patch 7.1b video transcript. Re-running this skill OVERWRITES this section. Promote keepers into your hand-written ## Patch 7.1b analysis (iTzSTU4RT) sections above. Adc "I've kind of moved like champions down overall cuz I just had way too many champions in the A tier. I think Civ, Samira, Kalista, and Varys are just weaker overall. Samira just struggles because she just doesn't really do a lot of burst damage." (01:03:53)

itzstu4rtauto· Adc
patch 7.1b·adc

I've kind of moved like champions down overall cuz I just had way too many champions in the A tier. I think Civ, Samira, Kalista, and Varys are just weaker overall. Samira just struggles because she just doesn't really do a lot of burst damage.(01:03:53)

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Patch notes

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