ADC build for micro-spacing and prolonged execution: Kalista does not win on passive front-to-back, but when she turns each step into an advantage of position, kite, and coordinated all-in. The build must therefore respect her active mobility and support duo as much as raw damage.
Three builds, one right answer per draft. The advisor reads the five enemies (and your allies) and names who triggers what — the same rule as the Draft MVP sheet and Ask Nexus.
Best Kalista build (Dragon Lane): Blade of the Ruined King › Runaan's Hurricane › Terminus › Kraken Slayer › Guinsoo's Rageblade, boots Berserker's Greaves, keystone Lethal Tempo. Three variants and when to pick each are below.
Standard build maximizing damage output. Use on neutral matchups or when ahead.
15,300 total cost
Nothing dominates on the other side: the standard build maximizes your damage.
Open this draft in the tool →Anti-resist build for tanky enemies. Choose when multiple enemies build armor/magic resist.
15,000 total cost -300gSustain build leaning on heal/omnivamp to win prolonged duels.
15,400 total cost +100g
Scores out of 10: where this champion sits against the whole roster, phase by phase. The strip shows its own power ramp level by level — it does not compare across champions.
Your hardest matchups in this role, and the item from your situational list that answers each one.
Ashe
Guardian Angel
Physical damage
Nilah
Guardian Angel
Physical damage
Miss Fortune
Guardian Angel
Physical damage
Varus
Guardian Angel
Physical damage
Best Kalista build (Baron Lane): Blade of the Ruined King › Kraken Slayer › Runaan's Hurricane › Terminus › Nashor's Tooth, boots Berserker's Greaves, keystone Lethal Tempo. Three variants and when to pick each are below.
Standard build maximizing damage output. Use on neutral matchups or when ahead.
15,000 total costNothing dominates on the other side: the standard build maximizes your damage.
Open this draft in the tool →Anti-resist build for tanky enemies. Choose when multiple enemies build armor/magic resist.
15,000 total costSustain build leaning on heal/omnivamp to win prolonged duels.
15,400 total cost +400gScores out of 10: where this champion sits against the whole roster, phase by phase. The strip shows its own power ramp level by level — it does not compare across champions.
Your hardest matchups in this role, and the item from your situational list that answers each one.
Malphite
Guardian Angel
Physical damage
Nasus
Guardian Angel
Physical damage
Irelia
Guardian Angel
Physical damage
Jax
Guardian Angel
Physical damage
Same advisor in the Draft (the MVP sheet applies it to your real draft) and in Ask Nexus, which explains the choice. On counters pages: the variant to take against each counter-pick.
Foundational item core, without recent situational additions — kept as a base for understanding the kit. For the up-to-date build, see the section above.
Kalista relies on attack speed for mobility and DPS. The build maximizes combat uptime.
Long Sword
%HP on-hit, Kalista stacks E Rend spears quickly
Double on-hit, AS for stack E Rend rapidement
Multi-targets lance the E Rend on tous the enemies
Berserker's Greaves
Gluttonous Greaves
Quicksilver
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Each attacks stacks the spears in the target, Lethal Tempo maximizes the number of spears.
Strengthens early trades on stacked spears before extraction.
Spears stack from the start of fights on healthy targets — the bonus grows every spear planted before the Rend.
Attack speed to stack more spears by seconde on targets.
Every attack hop is a dash — the true damage keeps re-triggering throughout your kiting.
Amaranth's Twinguard
Randuin's Omen
Amaranth's Twinguard
Guardian Angel
Coup De Grace
Giant Slayer
Allows stacking Rend on multiple targets in fights.
