Why is everyone pretending Kayle is weak early??

Slade25·4/2/2019, 1:38:47 PM·4 votes·2,582 views

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Why is everyone saying she's weak early?

She has a 52% winrate between 20 and 25 minutes. This is better than Pantheon and Renekton, who are strongly considered to be the strongest early game toplane champions in league. The difference though, is their winrate goes down after 20-25 minutes, whereas hers skyrockets to 55%.

Her hardest counters, riven and jax (who are both S-tier toplaners), have NEGATIVE winrates against. her. She literally does not statistically have a losing matchup.

How is everyone so blatantly blind to these facts?

37 Comments

dim2a4/2/2019, 1:57:49 PM4 votes

Her 0-15% winrate is 41% or so, which is extremely low compared even to other late game champions (likes of vayne and yi who generally hover in 45-48% area). 20 minutes is midgame already. She is too strong overall, but if you want to talk about facts in early game, you'll find they don't back up your position.

Phieldworker4/2/2019, 1:44:22 PM4 votes

Because she does have a weak early game? Have you played her for like 15 games to see this? She picks up at lvl 6 and then takes off at lvl 11 which is a level you can reach by 20 min. I don’t need stats to tell me this because I actually played her/against her a bit these past couple of weeks. So yeah, her early game is weak and is exploitable by champs who can just jump on her.

DuskDaUmbreon4/2/2019, 2:13:01 PM3 votes

Because she's designed to be. Even if numerically she's strong in early, she's still a hypercarry, meaning lane is going to be her weakest point in the game.

Slade254/2/2019, 2:47:21 PM2 votes

I love how this is getting downvoted, yet not a single person has yet to A) provide any hard evidence that disagrees with this post, or B) actually prove that she's weak in relation to other toplane champions. Yeah, she's weak compared to her late game, but you can't compare someone to themself, you compare them to other champions at the same time. She's far too safe early for how strong she is late

letsfeedtogether4/2/2019, 2:00:36 PM2 votes

no one does. everybody just says shes broken.

taleofsonata4/3/2019, 12:22:23 AM1 votes

LS said he wasn't impress at her late game, he showed many clip where another champion could outperform her.

xDogMeatx4/2/2019, 2:07:38 PM1 votes

actually jax has difficult catching her 1000 miles an hour W and q slow. only way to stop her is stunning her. killing kayle just needs a assassin Top like wukong or zed (basically any champ with mobility dedicated to killing squishies.)

FireDrizzle4/2/2019, 2:10:23 PM1 votes

The issue is she can get over a 1000g from klepto, never should someone get 700+ g in lane. I wonder if it is bugged on her.

Vlada Cut4/2/2019, 2:50:33 PM1 votes

Kayle outscales Riven whule Kayle's Q and E combo easily smack his laning frkm a distance jax canXm't Cointerstrike and leap at you. Donez.