Kallari Build Guide

Kallari is a high risk high reward melee assassin and a global threat to her enemies. Kallari is more mechanically demanding than other heroes and relies on stealth and guerrilla tactics to catch enemies off guard.

Focus on buying cards that increase your Power and Attack Speed

Early game, utilize your mobility and stealth to gank unsuspecting enemies.

• Shadow Walk will allow Kallari to enter the shadow plane, making her invisible and increasing her movement speed.
• Shadow Dance can be used to disengage fights or to traverse terrain.
• Crippling Dagger will slow enemies hit allowing you to stick to your target.
• And finally, Kallari’s Ultimate Death Sentence allows her to teleport to an enemy wherever they are, making her a global threat.

Use it to gank enemies out of position, or to join teamfights and get the upper hand on your enemies. Be smart about your engagements and look for opportunities to surprise your enemies. Use your abilities to set the tempo of the match, by applying pressure to lanes on the other side of the map. When the time is right, join the fight with Death Sentence and help your team pick off stragglers.

LORE OF KALLARI

• Some believe she kills for pleasure.
• Some believe she kills because she must.
• Some believe neither of these is true.

KALLARI OVERVIEW

Kallari’s Strengths

1. Global threat (thanks to ultimate)
2. Ability to go to the Shadow Plane
3. Outstanding escape and terrain traversal capabilities.
4. Small hit-box

Kallari’s Weaknesses

1. Very quishy
2. Vulnerable to Crowd Control

KALLARI’S ABILITIES ANALYSIS

 – Slash (Basic Attack)

Kallari slashes with her daggers in a quick melee attack.

Slash does increased damage if used while in Shadow Plane.

 – Crippling Dagger (Alternate Ability)

Kallari throws a dagger dealing Ability Damage and applying Slow.

Quick-cast ability.

 – Shadow Walk (Primary Ability)

After a brief channel, Kallari enters the Shadow Plane, gaining Movement Speed bonus for a period of time or until she uses an offensive ability. Landing a Slash while in Shadow Walk will deal increased Basic Damage.

Automatically activates when Kallari drops below 35% Health. Can only trigger once every 60 seconds. (Not any more in .42. To be confirmed)

Shadow Walk is a channel ability but Kallari can still move during channeling. There is no way to brake the channel or kick her out of the Shadow Plane unless Kallari does it on her own.

Shadow Plane. Since Kallari is capable of entering the Shadow Plane she will be able to see enemy’s Shadow wards (and vice versa of course). Granting vision of the enemy’s Shadow Wards will help your teammates to clean them out and have better map control. Allied minions will destroy wards as well if they are in range and you provide vision for them.

You can clean Wards on your own but it is not easy since as soon as you use an offensive ability you are out of Shadow Plane. There is a special trick like on this video:

Tactics. Shadow Plane is a great state to be used for your advantage. If your opponents don’t have Wards Kallari will be constantly punishing them for that. In case your opponents are taking Shadow Wards from the very beginning then they are not spending all of their CP into stats which is important in the Early Game.

 – Shadow Dance (Secondary Ability)

Allows Kallari to jump up to two additional times after Jumping.

[Passive]: Provides bonus Health Regeneration while Kallari is in the Shadow Plane.

Shadow Dance is a passive ability modifying the way Kallari plays. Jumping aspect of this ability works similarly to Wukong’s Cloudwalker but two times better. The second part of this passive is an increased HP Regen in the Shadow Plane like Rampage has in the Jungle with his King of the Jungle.

Utility. Shadow Dance is what makes Kallari a hard to kill target. With her triple jump she can get away from almost all bad situations unless she gets caught in CC. And combined with the Shadow Walk it allows Kallari to return to fights pretty quickly.

 – Death Sentence (Ultimate Ability)

Kallari applies a Death Mark to all enemy heroes for a short period of time. During that time, Kallari can reconfirm the ability to teleport to the target, dealing Ability Damage upon arrival. Target receives Slow effect while channeling.

Death Sentence is a channel ability with two phases. The 1st one is to reveal all enemies upon activation. Kallari will be able to see anyone and target them. The second phase is optional and starts after confirming your target. Kallari does a brief wind-up animation and teleports straight to her target.

Global threat. Death Sentence is one of that very rare abilities that deal damage globally like Murdock’s Long Arm of the Law or Curse from Morigesh. However there is an important difference – Kallari has to teleport herself for that and therefore become vulnerable. On the other hand she is capable of dealing more damage by following up on her target with other abilities and basic attacks.

Damage guaranteed. Note that after you teleport to your target you will always deal damage even if you get Stunned. See how it works:

Follow anywhere. When Kallari selects her target she will follow them anywhere. If they are teleporting to base during the Death Sentence animation then Kallari will end up teleporting to the enemy’s base as well. Which is an instant death.

KALLARI’S DECK CONSIDERATIONS

Kallari is an assassin. Her main role is to be a constant global threat to the entire enemy team. She is not supposed to stay in a fight (i.e. out of the Shadow Plane) for a long time and she has to have a huge burst damage to minimize her fight time.

CORE CARDS FOR KALLARI