Talk:Kalista/@comment-24496127-20170220153649

I don't think Kalista will ever work as intended with the current state of items. That's mostly because Crit items are awful on her, yet there's no items that give both AD and attack speed without one or the other being a negligable value.

Potentially, I can see the new blade of the ruined King helping her out, but it's not going to be enough to offset the huge demand for attack speed and AD that simply isn't feasible with the current available items. Theoretically her E is a replacement for crit, Riot themselves have even said as much, but then you realize that anyone that actually crits can melt you far quicker than you can stack spears, and you wonder why you would want to replace crit. That says nothing of all the lethality items that she can't use at all.

When her passive actually negated movespeed slows, at least there was a clear time in which Kalista was the superior kiter to a conventional adc, but with slows making her practically matrix jump, I question why she even has the passive now.

There's also the fact that her Runaans synergy made her have to be balanced around the item in the same way Fizz was with Lich bane, so without it she feels awful, and with it, she still feels awful, unless you're blessed with the cirumstance where you can actually make use of it against three targets that all can't touch you for whatever reason. Ruunaans giving crit on a character that scales with it also means you've got a stat that's suboptimal on her just because the Runaans effect is too good to pass up.

Honestly, the easiest solution might just be to remove the Runaan's synergy and put power back into regular kit.