Talk:Kalista/@comment-24578590-20141106035226

This is the first fully legitimately "Caster ADC" in League of Legend. You play primarily *like* a mage, but as an ADC. So instead of a balanced mix of attack damage, attack speed, crits etc you basically just pile on flat AD with a Whisper and maybe some C/D. You NEED to have attack speed around 1.2 to prevent yourself from being nuked from her innate passive on her autos. However, if you build anything higher than you aren't yet used to, she will throw an additional spear while you were trying to move which can get you killed *A LOT*.

This is why she didn't come with steroids or what ever. She is equipped with abilties that 'make plays' rather than give her a raw buff, which is the dominate factor in high ranked LoL these days. She is extremely interesting. Boosting your attack speed higher than you're custom to will make for some very interesting high-risk/high-reward scenarios for "dueling" fights (1 v 1). However, to compensate, if you only have a small amount of AS to have more control of her jump and safety then you will scale AD very highly; making you a very efficient team fighting bruiser able to disintergrate your enemy laners easily. So based on what she comes equipped with you can really kinda tell whether or not you'll win the lane. If she's bruiser, you probably won't win the lane but you have an advantage when it comes to killing her. If she's attack speed then you'll push her back and probably win the lane but will get decimated if she's skilled enough with the AS mechanic. This is incredibly balanced and the skill cap for her is far higher than most champions (you can always get better with a character like this by amping up AS as you get more used to it).

I'm so god damn excited.