PCKalista was last buffed in Patch 26.7 (). Across 60 patches, Kalista has received 18 buffs, 14 nerfs, 27 adjustments since release in Patch 4.20.
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Kalista and her players have been patiently awaiting buffs, and we're also ready to see her unleash her wrath once again. This change is aimed at making her hit harder when she finds an opening to stack up her spears.
Rend
- AD ratio per subsequent spear increased to 20/27.5/35/42.5/50% AD from 20/25/30/35/40% AD.
Kalista has been underperforming for quite a while now and we'd like to carve out some mid-game strength for her. We're hoping to achieve that by increasing her attack damage growth, which directly feeds into her attacks as well as her Q and E damage.
Stats
- Attack damage growth increased to 4.75 from 4.25.
AD growth increased. E damage AP scaling increased.
Stats
- Attack damage growth increased to 4.25 from 4.
Rend
- First spear AP ratio increased to 65% AP from 20% AP.
- Subsequent spear AP ratio increased to 50% AP from 20% AP.
Base health decreased. Q cooldown increased.
Stats
- Base health reduced to 560 from 580.
Pierce
- Cooldown increased to 9 seconds from 8.
Base health and AD decreased, AD growth increased. E damage decreased.
Stats
- Base health reduced to 580 from 600.
- Base attack damage reduced to 57 from 59.
- Attack damage growth increased to 4 from 3.25.
Rend
- Base damage reduced to 5/15/25/35/45 from 10/20/30/40/50.
W damage decreased early.
General
- Bug Fix: Basic attack VFX no longer sometimes fails to properly render, causing it to occasionally be invisible.
Martial Poise
- Bug Fix: Now properly benefits from certain boots.
Sentinel
- Mark damage reduced to 10/12/14/16/18% of target's maximum health from 14/15/16/17/18%.
Dashes are now more resilient to slows. Mana regeneration increased. Q damage and mana cost nerfed. E damage decreased early.
Stats
- Mana regeneration growth increased to 0.8 from 0.4.
Martial Poise
- Dash is still affected by slow and cripple. Has a new speed floor.
- New calculations for dash speed.
- Base attack speed is now properly referenced. This is a buff of around 8%.
- Influence of attack speed slows has been halved.
- Attack speed increases still have full influence.
- Movement speed multiplier changed to (0.2% total movement speed + 0.25) from (1 - sum of slows).
- This is typically close to 100% but now benefits from bonus movement speed and is more resilient to slows. The minimum multiplier is 48%.
- Restored the dash animation when basic attacking.
- Bug Fix: Using Pierce during her attack winddown animation no longer causes her attack and idle animations to constantly reset when repeatedly inputting movement and stop commands without allowing the winddown animation cycle to finish.
Pierce
- Mana cost increased to 60/65/70/75/80 from 50/55/60/65/70.
- Base damage reduced to 10/75/140/205/270 from 20/85/150/215/280.
Rend
- Base damage per subsequent spear changed to 7/14/21/28/35 from 8/12/16/20/24.
- AD ratio per subsequent spear reduced to 20/25/30/35/40% AD from 25/30/35/40/45% AD.
Base Attack Damage reduced. W minimum non-champ damage and non champ execute threshold removed. W non-champion damage cap reduced. R cooldown increased.
Stats
- Base attack damage reduced to 59 from 61.
Fate's Call
- Cooldown increased to 160/140/120 seconds from 150/120/90.
Passive bugfix. E damage decreased.
Martial Poise
- Bug Fix: Tier 1 Boots now properly affect dash distance.
Rend
- Base damage reduced to 10/20/30/40/50 from 20/30/40/50/60.
Worlds 2015
- Skin renamed to Worlds 2015 Kalista from Championship Kalista.
Base health increased, health regeneration increased, attack damage decreased. Passive vision interaction adjusted, on-hit damage increased. Q damage increased. E cooldown decreased, damage adjusted.
Stats
- Base health increased to 600 from 574.
- Base health regeneration increased to 4 from 3.75.
- Health regeneration growth increased 0.75 from 0.55.
- Base attack damage reduced to 61 from 66.
- Attack damage growth reduced to 3.25 from 3.75.
Basic Attack
- Removed: No longer misses if the target leaves vision before the attack hits.
- AD ratio increased to 100% AD from 90% AD.
Pierce
- AD ratio increased to 105% AD from 100% AD.
Rend
- Base damage per spear reduced to 8/12/16/20/24 from 10/16/22/28/34.
- AD ratio per subsequent spear increased to 25/30/35/40/45% AD from 23.2/27.55/31.9/36.25/40.6% AD.
- Cooldown reduced to 10/9.5/9/8.5/8 from 14/12.5/11/9.5/8.
E AP ratios added to slow and damage.
Rend
- New Effect: Damage now scales with 20% AP and 20% AP per subsequent spear.
- New Effect: Slow now scales with 5% per 100 AP.
Attack damage growth increased. Passive ceremony duration decreased, Kalista now forced to channel.
Stats
- Attack damage growth increased to 3.75 from 3.5.
Martial Poise
- Oathsworn Bond timer reduced to 9 seconds from 13.
- New Effect: Is now forced to channel on the Black Spear while her Oathsworn is reviving.
General
- Bug Fix: Several of her voice lines now properly play.
- Bug Fix: VFX overlay appearing on the platform near the end of Worlds 2015 Recall animation has been restored.
Fate's Call
- Bug Fix: Oathsworn can now properly see the ability's VFX on their screen while under the effect of it.
Sentinel
- Bug Fix: Will no longer patrol between Kalista and her last Pierce target location instead of the selected cast location when cast during Martial Poise.
Martial Poise
- Bug Fix: Can no longer attack two champions at once with Guinsoo's Rageblade.
Pierce
- Bug Fix: Spear is no longer temporarily displaced on top of her when casting the spell.
Sentinel
- Bug Fix: Passive indicator is now properly visible despite the positioning of the camera.
Rend
- Bug Fix: Killing a unit while casting Rend no longer causes its cooldown to be reset.
Stats
- Base health increased to 604 from 534.
- Health growth increased to 114 from 100.
- Armor growth increased to 5.2 from 4.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 1.3 from 0.5.
Base mana, move speed, and attack speed growth increased.
Stats
- Base mana increased to 300 from 250.
- Base movement speed increased to 330 from 325.
- Attack speed growth increased to 4.5% from 4%.
E damage ratio increased.
Rend
- Active AD ratio increased to 70% AD from from 60% AD.
- Subsequent spear AD ratio increased to 23.2/27.55/31.9/36.25/40.6% AD from 20/23.75/27.5/31.25/35% AD.
R knockup duration decreased early.
Fate's Call
- Knock up duration reduced to 1/1.5/2 seconds from 1.5/1.75/2.
Martial Poise
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where she was still able to basic attack and lunge if she was charmed at the beginning of a basic attack wind-up.
Martial Poise
- Bug Fix: Can no longer trigger Electrocute or Phase Rush with only two attacks.
Q Rend transfer bugfixed. E damage ratio bugfixed.
Pierce
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where killing a target with Pierce did not transfer all of that target's Rend stacks to the next target it hits.
Rend
- Bug Fix: Initial damage now properly scales with 60% AD and subsequent spear damage now properly scales with 19.8/23.748/27.498/31.248/34.988% AD.
Rend
- Undocumented: AD ratio reduced to 50% AD from 60% AD.
- Undocumented: AD ratio per additional spear reduced to 18/21/24/27/30% AD from 19.8/23.748/27.498/31.248/34.998% AD.
Sentinel
- Soul-Marked damage increased to 14/15/16/17/18% of the target's maximum health from 10/12/14/16/18%.
- Removed: No longer has a cost of 20 mana.
Martial Poise
- Bug Fix: Is no longer able to basic attack while channeling Teleport by repeatedly inputting attack commands.
Base armor reduced. E slow decreased.
Stats
- Base armor reduced to 21 from 23.
Rend
- Slow reduced to 10/18/26/34/42% from 25/30/35/40/45%.
Base health and armor growth increased.
Stats
- Health growth increased to 100 from 89.
- Armor growth increased to 4 from 3.5.
W mark duration and bonus damage on marked targets increased.
Sentinel
- Soul-Mark damage increased to 10/12/14/16/18% of the target's maximum health from 5/7.5/10/12.5/15%.
- Soul-Mark duration increased to 4 seconds from 3.
Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 69 from 67.
- Base mana increased to 250 from 231.8.
- Mana growth increased to 45 from 35.
Rend
- Bug Fix: Can no longer cast Rend with insufficient mana.
Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 67 from 62.
- Attack damage growth increased to 4 from 3.6.
- Attack speed growth increased to 4% from 3.5%.
Pierce
- Base damage increased to 20/85/150/215/280 from 10/70/130/190/250.
Sentinel
- Removed: No longer gains 5/10/15/20/25 bonus attack damage while near her Oathsworn.
Rend
- New Effect: Now deals 50% reduced damage to epic monsters.
Rend
- Tooltip now shows details on additional spear damage.
Rend
- Additional spear AD ratio increased to 20/23.75/27.5/31.25/35% AD from 20/22.5/25/27.5/30% AD.
Stats
- Base health increased to 534 from 517.76.
- Health growth increased to 89 from 83.
- Base armor reduced to 23 from 28.
- Base health regeneration reduced to 3.75 from 6.
- Base attack damage reduced to 62 from 66.
- Attack damage growth increased to 3.6 from 2.9.
Stats
- Base attack range reduced to 525 from 550.
- Base attack damage reduced to 66 from 71.
- Base attack speed increased to 0.694 from 0.644.
- Attack speed delay reduced to -0.1 from -0.03.
- Attack speed growth increased to 3.5% from 2.5%.
Martial Poise
- Bug Fix: No longer path towards the blue side fountain if given a movement command to dash while attacking an enemy inhibitor.
Sentinel
- Removed: Gaining 10% to 27% (based on level) bonus attack speed while near her Oathsworn.
- New Effect: While near her Oathsworn now gains 5/10/15/20/25 bonus attack damage.
Rend
- Mana refund reduced to 10/15/20/25/30 from 30 at all ranks.
Martial Poise
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it could fail to trigger at high attack speeds.
Fate's Call
- Cooldown increased to 150/120/90 seconds from 120/90/60.
Sentinel
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug preventing Rakan from reliably proccing soul-mark damage if he attacked too quickly after the mark was applied.
Sentinel
- Bug Fix: Lifesteal no longer applies when hitting sentinels.
Rend
- New Effect: Passive is no longer disabled while Rend is on cooldown.
- Number of units required to refund the mana cost reduced to 1 from 2.
- Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where Rend's cooldown sometimes didn't reset when Rend killed a unit.
General
- Bug Fix: SKT T1 Kalista's clothes no longer turn moldy during her death animation.
General
- Bug Fix: Runaan's Hurricane bolts on SKT T1 Kalista's basic attacks are now golden, matching her spears (versus spooky green like her base skin).
Martial Poise
- Bug Fix: Dash no longer overwrites other displacement effects (ex. clicking on Dark Passage, being hit by Dragon's Rage).
Stats
- Attack speed growth reduced to 2.5 from 3.
- Base attack speed reduced to 0.644 from 0.694.
Sentinel
- New Effect: Gains 10 to 27% (based on level) bonus attack speed when near her Oathsworn.
- Active's laps reduced to 3 from 7.
- Bonus magic damage reduced to 5/7.5/10/12.5/15% of target's max. health from 10/12.5/15/17.5/20% of target's max. health.
Fate's Call
- Cast range reduced to 1100 from 1400.
Rend
- Mana cost reduced to 30 from 40.
- Removed: Mana refund when killing one target.
- Clarification: If Rend kills at least one target, its cooldown is reset. If Rend kills two or more targets, its mana cost is refunded.
Sentinel
- Announcement: There is currently a bug where melee oathsworns must attack a marked target twice to trigger the bonus damage.
Sentinel
- Passive damage reduced to 10/12.5/15/17.5/20% of target's maximum health from 12/14/16/18/20% of target's maximum health.
- Passive cooldown per target increased to 10 from 6.
Fate's Call
- Cooldown increased to 120/90/60 from 90/75/60.
General
- Updated recommended items.
- Now properly queues up to cast after her basic attack completes.
Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 57.5 from 53.46.
- Attack damage growth increased to 3.5 from 3.25.
Martial Poise
- New Effect: Basic attacks now scale with 90% AD instead of 100% AD.
Pierce
- Can no longer be cast Martial Poise.
General
- The dash range is no longer increased when moving away from the target.
Martial Poise
- Attack wind-up now scales with 75% of Kalista's attack speed, reduced from 100%.
- The attack wind up is the time between starting an attack and firing. Thresh is the only other champion with a modified attack wind up.
- This does not affect Kalista's damage-per-second in sustained attacks, but will affect her ability to attack-move.
Martial Poise
- While Kalista still can't cancel her basic attack, she can now select a different target during the first moments of her basic attack wind up.
Sentinel
- Soul-Marked cooldown per target reduced to 6 seconds from 8.
- Soul-Marked duration increased to 2 seconds from 1.5.
Sentinel
- Fixed a few cases of modified/empowered attacks not triggering the bonus damage.
