New kayle feels like a afk simulator

Shepherd o Souls·2/21/2019, 1:49:07 AM·9 votes·6,000 views

You have no ability to trade in a solo lane because your autos hit like a twig early on. Your q can secure a little bit of farm while you get the lane frozen on you and get zoned off. Your e lasts one auto so you can't get much off of it for its cost early on. Feels really bad to a lot of matchups so far as most characters are better early on.

Once you hit 11 the game becomes very fun and kayle feels much more fluid. Hitting 16 feels honestly broken, peaked at around 200 true damage on autos so far without counting all the other sources. Game doesn't even feel fair at 16 but extremely fun.

Maybe decrease q mana cost early on so if you're gonna afk get shit on you can secure farm. I just ended up playing her jg and farming to 11 and then turning the game around my last match.

25 Comments

Saianna2/21/2019, 6:08:20 AM8 votes

Her 16lvl true damage is just powercreep "to secure the win". It's a mechanic to force the match conclusion. Anyone saying TD is fine and she needs it is delusional and definitely affected by damage powercreep. She didn't need it before, she does not need it now. She can be balanced without it.... But it wouldn't be as flashy.

JarodDempsey2/21/2019, 2:06:25 AM7 votes

shes always been kind of hyper carry but with the rework they took that to the extreme lol. Twig early game, true damage hyper ranged carry late game.

(and support never evidently T_T)

FOR JUSTICE2/21/2019, 1:57:39 AM7 votes

sounds like a familiar playstyle to a few champions, wonder who.....

Veigar Nasus MasterYi Soraka

Poske2/21/2019, 2:26:02 PM1 votes

200 true dmg on autos at level 16 sounds very bad

Sorry but 200 dmg per auto for a lategame hypercarry is pathetic

But yeah rework is an obvious failure and Riot wont know how to change that

GripaAviara2/21/2019, 2:26:40 PM1 votes

This is what I feared most, another master Yi like champion.

They needed to make Kayle more balance in all game spam, now they skew it even more towards late game.

At least Riot had the good taste not to give her a windwall or invulnerability to towers ... oh wait, she has those in her ulti. She'll be so balanced ...

Greymoore2/21/2019, 6:42:28 PM1 votes

I just hate that I can't play her mid anymore

Kelfish42/21/2019, 3:49:30 AM1 votes

I agree, I wrote a post extensively into why the new Kayle is bad, take a look: https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/KXRPsVyR-i-will-probably-quit-league-now-the-new-kayle-is-terrible

Fear the Kayn2/21/2019, 2:20:30 PM1 votes

Reminds me a lot of Kayn . I think she'll be fine...in the jungle. Anywhere else shes's going to have a ton of horrible matchups.