So, I played Kayle in my last ranked...

SaltyToplaneGoat·Jul 18, 2015·4 votes·647 views

... and I never felt more like I was cheating in this game. I had no idea how the champ works, zero experience and made horrible mistakes that game that could have screwed over the entire team (Failed the first gank and gave buffs away, etc etc. Not proud of that moment...).

But the moment I had sated devourer in, I turned into a brutal killing machine, ending the game with 10 kills... and during the entire time I felt like I was cheating - mostly because I was doing nothing besides rigth-clicking people to death after pressing E. There was zero skill involved, yet I murdered the enemy team, despite having absolutly no idea what I was doing...

Something needs to be done with this champ... In my eyes Kayle has turned into a total pick-or-ban case, even worse than several other junglers that profit from .

11 Comments

I Miss CannonJul 18, 20154 votes

Kayle at least got a really bad early game and it's easy to deny her a 20 minute devourer. If you already think Kayle is bad, play Shyvana or Weedwick.

DorkunedAurasJul 18, 20151 votes

This isn't Weedwick, 4.20 was WeedWick

When people can say "Oh, I have my 800 gold item 3715 , time to destroy people" and "ok, I just finished item 3718 item 3153 item 3091 , literally nothing can survive my ult" that's weedwick. At least this one has to scale up

KrinuJul 18, 20152 votes

Kayle's a late-game monster. Treat her like Nasus. Catch her early, though, and she just gets torn to shreds.

SaltyToplaneGoatJul 18, 20151 votes

Well, in that game I fucked up early. Pretty hard. But keep in mind that Kayle is from a time where games could end before 20 minutes... with the current style of balance and gameplay that rarely happens, as early game does not matter as much as it did a year ago.

Baby GhoulJul 18, 20151 votes

It matters so much for ranked and draft pick. If the enemy jungler is a XinZhao , then everyone is getting ganked before 10 mins, including you.

It's happened a lot in my past games with junglers like Kayle Warwick Shyvana . Most or all lanes fall because of a super present enemy jungler, and no ganks. If it does get to late game, and you weren't ganked in the jungle, then you're going to be strong. Your teammates will not be. This makes things tricky.

IcyPepperJul 18, 20151 votes

Question is, did they counterjungle you and secure the scuttles/dragons?

Vincent LuciusJul 18, 20151 votes

This is something that happens with most Sated champs. They hit a massive power spike as soon as they get thirty stacks. Don't get on Kayle's case just because she benefits from this item, though. She's always been pretty strong but underrated and she doesn't any nerfs. It would be a wasted ban since barely anyone uses her even though she works everywhere.

She suffers due to a lack of any real mobility (she's from an age where a speed boost was considered epic mobility) or escapes. Her ult can be waited out by going into a bush and making her lose track of you so that you can blow her up. She makes up for this by being a late fame power house that scales with AP and attack speed.

TL;DR: Kayle is fine. Powerful late game but not broken. Sated is the problem, so leave the angel be.

Mr Broken WingsJul 18, 20151 votes

Kayle got too strong with that item, I agree. I played her a few times and always end up solocarrying matches lol.

SaltyToplaneGoatJul 19, 20151 votes

Well, the main problem is her binary design. Either you are completly worthless and the best thing you do is ult someone.

OR: you murder everybody and don't even need to ult.

I think it's a flaw in her initate design...

KrinuJul 19, 20151 votes

Binary design? Okay, I guess if you're looking at her just as a damage-dealing carry, yeah, she can be kind of feast-or-famine, but she's got a whole lot more going for her that she can fall back on when she's behind. She's got a 15% defense shred, her ult is still the bane of assassins everywhere, she has a powerful heal with a decent movespeed attached to it, and she interacts in an almost overpowered way with the new Rylai's.