Talk:Kalista/@comment-6781178-20141110150407/@comment-4636093-20141110171007

You start with 55 AD at level 1, probably more since you'll have runes and masteries and a Doran's Blade. Since it has a 100% total AD ratio it will actually have quite a strong level 1 damage.

Compared to a skill which scales on Bonus AD such as Quinn's Q, which has 70 (+65% bonus AD) at rank 1 it's actually quite similar damage output.