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This is a tentative rework for Kalista, the Spear of Vengeance. In terms of novelty, Kalista has a lot going for her that is unique: she has an orbwalking paradigm like no other, unparalleled ally synergy, and a really cool vision contribution. Problem is, she's also a bloated mess: her kit is massively overloaded with different mechanics, actives, passives (she has 5 passives in total) and conditionals, many of which are redundant, and none of which contribute that much to kit depth. In fact, she usually has so many options at her disposal that she can at least moderately succeed at any choice she makes, which I think is the opposite of depth (choices need to be meaningful and incur costs or tradeoffs). On top of this, there's a lot to her that is supremely irritating: her perma-jump makes it impossible to fight her as a melee champion most of the time, her Black Spear ritual, while not directly a gameplay feature, is tremendously disruptive, and her Rend allows her to upstage her own jungler, among a great deal many other annoyances. She has no clear identity, and what she does well often comes at a major cost in enjoyment to all other parties involved, including her own allies. On top of this, she is so difficult to balance that Riot has resorted to piling even more bizarre effects onto her kit, such as the atrocious nerf to her autoattack scaling: she is one of the very few champions out there who has had an explicit malus added to her kit just to balance her, the others being 
Yasuo (reduced critical damage), 
Thresh (reduced attack wind-up bonuses from attack speed) and 
Ashe (cannot crit on her first attack, though I feel her unique crit paradigm justifies that).
Beneath the heap of obnoxious mechanics, though, is a champion who has the potential to genuinely shine as a totally unique marksman. Her kiting is pretty broken right now, but for all the wrong reasons, and could potentially be made a lot more functional. Her ally synergy, which has often been overshadowed by her more technical power, deserves to be brought out more, as does her unique utility. Basically, if she were streamlined a ton, I feel she could have much more depth and be much more fun to play as, play with and play against. I think if Kalista had to have a niche, it would be as the game's best defensive marksman (she has great team synergy, kiting and static objective control), and the following changes are intended to condense her kit into that identity. Additionally, a secondary objective to these changes is to parcel out her ally-based power into timed windows of great power, instead of the current slew of persistent or low-cooldown bonuses, which would not only give her windows of vulnerability as well (she'd be a lot more dependent on her allies for protection, which was supposed to be the case originally) but also give her a broader range of viable Oathsworn, as right now she's constrained to marking the support for reasons that aren't too exciting.
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A tiny change here is that I'm making Kalista's Sentinels scale with her movement speed: while she'd have really low movespeed, which means pretty much any champion could easily kill these, particularly since their speed would still be halved after taking damage, they'd be able to scale naturally over time and cover more ground, which means more vision overall, and they'd also remain useful at scouting bushes and other parts of the map in advance before diving in. Kalista has an ability that essentially means she never needs to facecheck, and the movespeed scaling would mean she'd get to put that to better use.
What do you think of the above changes? Admittedly, this is the most recent of live champions/champion reworks that I decided to do a custom rework for, but I feel sufficiently enough time has passed to acknowledge that Kalista needs some serious changes to her kit (the recent attempts at balancing her are also evidence in support of this, in my opinion). Do you think these changes would solve Kalista's issues? If not, what am I missing? What would you want to change or keep on her live kit, and the above kit?
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