League Of Lamewads: Break the Meta: Can Kalista Jungle?

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/champion-reveal/kalista-spear-vengeance-revealed

What went wrong: Horrible beginning game. Partially my fault because I had never played even a regular jungle game before. [That's because I'm the adc's advocate.] However I did know a thing or two, and kicked up some armor seals before I started. So knowing that a leash [having someone help you kill the first monster, but backing away before the last shot] is a necessary thing thing to have- I asked for one.

(In the meantime of video editing, I had asked for a leash, but alas! No one had came. Or even bothered with it. As well our teams mid later, an Ekko, had many "positive" things to say about my decision to play a marksman in the jungle. Including that we are going to lose control of the mid lane, then the top lane, due to my incompetence.)

(Plus later that game the Ekko left me to die for no reason at all, and then complained 30 seconds later when he walked to his own death and no one helped him.)

Well that was a whole lot of positivity! And, that also didn't work. Hmm.... Wonder why.
Continuing on with the game I discovered that you need a lot of health potions, and support from your team, which my team wasn't so keen on giving. As I was beginning editing the video, I had noticed just how rude my team had been. It was sad, but you really can't break the meta without people dissaproving you. It was a very bad beginning, but I had high hopes of making a good recovery. Luckily I was only two levels behind.

Here's what I leveled:

I began the game leveling my E, Rend. Usually when I play Kalista in lane I choose to max that ability out first. Her Q is just a more powerful version of her basic attack. I didn't get my ult until the end because I wasn't bonded with anyone. Rend does more damage the more times the enemy has been hit with basic attacks or Q. Making securing a kill much easier. Which brings me to why I wanted to try to play Kalista Jungle in the first place. My experience playing Kalista, she is a Dragon slayer. At level 9-11 (as long as she has 10% life steal and runans hurricane) she can kill a dragon by herself if it's under 25-30 minutes in game. This is because the ammount of times that she can basic attack a dragon is enormous, due to its very high health bar. Having all of these basic attacks in on it can add up to a lot. Once the dragon is under 1500 health, she can kill it just by using rend. This seemed great for other jungle creatures, since they don't run away, I figured it should be easy to get lots of basic attacks in.

Well, it's not.

Kalista passive is being able to nimbly dart in a chosen direction each time she lands a basic attack.

This is a really useful thing when you're in lane, letting you be able to attack enemies, and making it hard for them to attack you afterwards. In the Jungle, this doesn't work very well. With the new update, monsters lose interest when they're away from their home. If you accidently dart in a bush area to avoid the monsters attack, the monster will follow you in the bush...

Which leads to to downfalls of Kalistas basic attacks. Apart from the only doing 90%, you CANNOT attack an enemy unless you have full sight of them. Even if you shoot your Q spear, it still won't hit them, it will go through them as if it's not there. Sure you could combat this by putting a stealth warding trinket in the nearby bushes, but that's too long of a cool down on your wards.

Plus, Kalista keeps complaining that you never made a pact with anyone. Once I did make a pact with someone, they went AFK. Nice.