Talk:Kalista/@comment-14081808-20141215174610/@comment-22338397-20141215192055

After the initial (Shiv release) debate which seemed to still favour PD's stats, Statikk Shiv has eventually taken over in popularity in this item niche among Marksmen in general. Disregarding the fact that Phantom Dancer is usually the better endgame choice, it helps if you look at your Marksman's strengths and weaknesses (as well as game situation/opponents) and kit interaction and match that that to your item of choice (sorted by cost):

2500g - Needs an affordable early/midgame powerspike, needs the extra waveclear and/or AoE teamfight damage, can rapidly accumulate stacks with mobility and/or attack speed, can abuse high attack range to periodically poke enemies in siege/standoff situations

2700g - Highly favors CDR, has high AD ratios and/or deals mostly physical damage with skills, can abuse the active's short window of opportunity

2800g - Champion deals mostly attack/crit based damage, prefers reliably high damage output over burst, doesn't need extra waveclear, has special use for the "ignore unit collision" passive

3703g - Can use all stats efficiently, has a short cooldown ability and can proc spellblade reliably, has high base attack damage, profits grealy from the on-hit/kill flat movespeed and/or the higher % percentage movespeed for kiting

Kalista doesn't really need CDR, is mostly auto-attack reliant, doesn't have a clear moment of opportunity for Ghostblade, has no use for PD's collision passive, has NO use for AP, cannot proc spellblade consistently, and has no real in-combat benefit from move speed other than that which she gets from boots. On the flipside, she can really use the extra waveclear power, because early-game your Q won't cut it. She also dashes around so much that she'll proc the Shiv lightning quite often, adding valuable AoE damage even if you're kiting around their frontline. Lastly, she has good use for that efficient mid-game powerspike, because once the Kalista train gets rolling, she can be really hard to pin down. I'd say Statikk Shiv is the best overall choice, MAYBE selling it lategame for PD.

TLDR; Get