Can we talk about Kayle for a sec, Rito?

Frigid159··1 votes·735 views

Okay, so I heard about this beast the other day, but until now, I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes or experienced the fear of looking into the black hole that lies behind her helmet. Kayle. Kayle The ONE champion that could replace Teemo as the devil in my book. I was playing Fizz mid and found that I'd be going against a Kayle. Little did I know that Kayle's E, that ranged splash attack, not only has a low enough cooldown that I get completely zoned out of lane, but also synergizes with Runaan's Hurricane. If this wasn't enough, this Kayle proceeded to build FQC, Nashor's, Rageblade, (oh, rage I did...) Trinity Force, BoRK, and Wit's End. Thus, she attacked with the speed and damage of a god not even multiple Frozen hearts or Randuin's could stop. Thus, we kept getting deleted almost no matter what we did. Because of her kit--a ranged slow, a heal/movement speed buff, the ranged splash effect, and 2-3 secs of invulnerability--neither I nor the rest of my team had any way to counterplay against her. I know there are always champions that benefit from certain patches, but this is a bit much...

Tl;dr: Rito, PLEASE NERF KAYLE!!!! D: (Or at least give her some counterplay!!)

8 Comments

JavelinJoe2 votes

Are you serious? You do realize she counters Fizz hard. Kayle is easily shut down early (pre 6) if she uses her w and can't run as fast if there is a good gank. And you really want to complain about a few seconds of invulnerability when not only does fizz has it build into his kit but it has a lower CD than kayle's

Nanuk Pihoqahiak1 votes

She needs A LOT of items that synergize well together to be effective. And even then, you could just spread out during a fight to mitigate the cleave she spits out. Yeah, she'll still shred fast. But at least she won't be shredding 3 people.

Frigid1591 votes

I feel like her early game was way too strong, though, and even though you can spread out in teamfights, I still don't see much counterplay to her kit, specially when her e lasts so long and has such a short cooldown.

Nanuk Pihoqahiak1 votes

The cooldown is 16 seconds at all ranks. She needs like 37 percent cdr to have max uptime on it. It's not a short cooldown early game.

Further more, you're playing a melee champion into Kayle. Kayle is designed to absolutely demolish melee between her slow and ranged harass.

Provengreil1 votes

She gets bullied by anyone except akali and fizz in lane. Those two simply have rough early laning. E has quite the downtime before nashors, and w costs too much mana to be good sustain imo. You sound bad.

Provengreil1 votes

You got wrecked by a kayle that managed to build 7 items and no boots?

She's not even all that great right now. her base attack speed is anemic and she doesn't get going until like the second item, at which point many games are already decided.

Provengreil1 votes

Btw, frozen hearts don't stack iirc, and armor doesn't defend against magic damage. ...

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