How to win lane as Samira against Kalista · 50.43% win rate (2,586 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Her tools referee your chaos — bait the trick, whirl the projectile half, and grade the gap.
Track: Kalista's R — Fate's Call (160–120s cooldown). The support-toss engage — respect every brush her Oathsworn could be sitting in.
Read from Samira's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Kalista.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Kalista | Kalista's passive hop kites your dash and rends you down at level 1. |
| Level 2 | Kalista | At level 2 she keeps auto-hopping out of your range and out-trades you. |
| Level 3 | Kalista | Level 3 her E rend burst on stacked minions punishes any step you take. |
| Levels 4-5 | Kalista | Through 4-5 she still kites you and her support's Fate's Call threatens your dive. |
| Level 6 | Samira | At 6 your ult executes her at melee where her hop mobility can't escape. |
| First item | Samira | At first item your close-range DPS and resets overtake her stack-and-rend poke. |
| Two+ items | Samira | Late, your scaling beats a Kalista whose rend falls off and who can't stop your dive. |
Kalista bullies you at 1-4: her passive hop lets her auto and reposition simultaneously, kiting your Q and stacking rend on you before you can close the gap or windwall. Her hop rhythm kites your combo and stacks spears on you while she does it, so refuse the fight and farm behind your minions. Blade Whirl only helps once you are already committed. Wait for the level where your support can hold her still, and take experience over gold until then.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Samira's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Samira vs Kalista report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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Nobody on paper — a 50.43% win rate over 2,586 games makes this a coin flip decided by play, not champion select.
Yes — Samira vs Kalista is a genuine skill matchup: 50.43% win rate, and the favour swings window to window rather than being set at champion select.
No hard counter either way — the Samira vs Kalista win rate is 50.43%, an even lane decided by execution.
Samira takes Conqueror on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Bloodline and Last Stand, and Domination secondary (Taste of Blood and Treasure Hunter) vs Kalista.
Start Doran's Blade + Health Potion and back for Vampiric Scepter / Dirk (≈900g). Build Bloodthirster / Collector first, then Infinity Edge, with Plated Steelcaps / Berserker's.
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