Overview
Basic guide to teach you how to be an extremely strong Kali. With this full build you will be able to use your stun and drain an enemies health before they have a chance to even move!
Starting items
Beginning into your match you will want to start off with:
Deaths Toll
If you will be playing in the jungle, instead of Deaths Toll, I would recommend Bumba’s Mask.
3x Health Potions
3x Mana Potions
Your relic is your choice, but personally I like to use Sanctuary I find that it helps me secure early game tower dives, or escape from an unfortunate gank.
Main build
Start off with Ninja Tabi | This will give you attack speed, movement speed, and physical power – the center of this build!
Then go for Hastened Fatalis | This item will give you attack speed and movement speed, but its passive is why we really are getting this item, successful basic attacks no longer decrease movement speed! This item really helps to secure kills from gods that are trying to escape.
Once you have achieved level 12 I would recommend getting Curse just so you can really make sure no one gets away from you.
Then you should get Soul Eater | This gives you attack speed and lifesteal. You should focus on getting 20 stacks on this as fast as possible, each stack makes your lifesteal and movement increase.
Next up is Stone Cutting Sword | This item grants movement speed and physical power while its passive makes your basic attacks decrease enemy physical protection and increase yours!
Next is Deathbringer | This item gives you critical strike chance and also physical power, its passive increases your critical strike damage.
Finally is Malice | This item increases your critical strike chance and physical power, its passive also makes your critical hits do 75% fo your total physical power as physical damage. Now you are going to start really making the enemy cringe.
Level her abilities like this:
UPDATE: With 3.8 it brings some nice changes to some items.
You can swap Stone Cutting Sword for Bloodforge
The new stats on this item are insane, it will give you some crazy physical power and upon getting a god kill you get a very strong shield, resulting in some insane sustain.
This replacement is your choice, it will lower your movement speed a bit. But will also hit enemy gods very hard. It was common for me to get 700 damage criticals on top of some insane attack speed, plus the new passive adding a shield gives you some amazing sustain. This is a heavily late game oriented build.
Basic Guide For Using This Build
I will base this around my typical conquest solo lane use with Kali using this build, first you want to get your jungler or mid to help you grab the blue buff and an xp camp. Then you want to be sure to poke the enemy in your lane as much as possible keep them from getting xp, farm the minions, be greedy. It is very important that you do not get out leveled in your lane. I sometimes secure kills within the first or second minion wave, it all depends on how your opponent is playing. I like to let the enemy get to where my minions can help damage them, then hit them with the 2, and stun them with 3, then hit them with a few basic attacks. By now they probably have extremely low health and are either staying in their tower range, or recalling back to base. If they recall that is good! More minion xp for you! Basically just keep doing this, play a smart solo lane and be sure to tell your team to communicate if a god in the middle lane is missing, you do not want to get ganked. The faster you get leveled the faster you can complete the build and I promise once you have this build completed no one will stand a chance against you. Once you get this build completed you can take on the fire giant, the gold fury, or whatever mob solo, her lifesteal is extremely strong, just make sure you have your 20 stacks on Soul Eater and you will be fine. This build works on basically any game mode, I use it for everything, earlier in a joust I snuck behind the enemy as they were pushing our phoenix, got to their titan and took it down from 75% hp to 0% and secured the win for our team. She is very stong with this build.
(Note: her stats will be even better when you have max stack on Soul Eater)
Thank you for reading.
Thank you for reading my guide, this was my first ever guide so if you have any feedback it would be much appreciated, I hope this build helps someone and if you would like you can add me and we can que together. If you feel I have left out any information or have any questions please let me know! Also if you find any typos please tell me, thank you all!