Kayle's rework is the worst one of 2018 - 2019

Say what you want about "problematic VGUs", at least Riot put in the effort to fix a problem when it came to Aatrox, Urgot, Akali, Irelia, Nunu, Mordekaiser, Galio...pretty much most of the VGUs, if not all of them, leading up to Kayle. Kayle, on the other hand, feels like whoever was designing her game play didn't realize where he was starting from to judge where he'd need to end up.

Like, really list them off and think on them for a bit:

: Super stat-checky game play with no way to enable himself. Granted play making tools that can be avoided.

: Kit that punishes the enemy for beating her that falls off to irrelevancy in a game where (at the time) all divers would fall off to split pushing. Given better scaling, more involved game play mechanics, and removed the "I stun you the second you have more hp than me" gimmick.

: Unsatisfying, stat-checky game play that people would NOT stop calling for more changes to no matter how much Riot would change the character. Given potentially powerful abilities with sweet/sour spot mechanics to play around for the opponent, which in turn removes his dependence on stacking steroids to check people with AA spam.

You can do this going down the list of characters I previously mentioned. Again, whether these things landed well or became problematic for one elo of play or another is not what I'm critiquing here. What I'm critiquing are the goals of the rework and the method used to satisfy them. Now, looking at Kayle.

: Before her rework, she was a late game ap hyper carry that felt really bad to play in the early game because of how defenseless she was and way too unstoppable in the late game because of how much she shred people, with no real purpose in organized games because hyper carries normally go bot lane and she's a melee champion in the early game. Riot reworked Kayle to be even stronger later with aoe true damage, even weaker earlier with no means of activating ranged laning patterns of her own accord, and no changes to her ability to contribute to the team via cc or other utilities, which means she's still copious when you factor in bot lane carries.

In short, Kayle got a WHOLE VGU to be turned into an even more feast/famine version of what she was initially. Phreak made a whole video back in mid season 2018 about how unsatisfying being a high power champion with low agency can be, and the person in charge of this VGU decided to do the exact OPPOSITE of that and remove even more agency from the original design of Kayle, whereas most VGUs and new champions have been giving players more agency in contrast. In my mind, regardless of differences I may have with the community on some reworks/new kits, given outcry about Kayle, I think many of us would agree that, objectively, Kayle is the worst VGU project Riot's done in at least the last 2 years. She's accomplished NOTHING. Solo queue players still think she's unsatisfying. Tourney level players aren't using a champion that starts a job that Kai'Sa can do at level 10 or 11 at level 15. All Riot did was make her look different...and honestly this jump suit is worse than the gold armor. Her base skin is awful.