How do you solve a problem like Kayle?

And let's be clear, Kayle is a problem.

She's doing way too much, way too early, the way she always has when she's out of line. Riot themselves have attributed this to Fervor of Battle, and looking at the damage splits for a character that builds pretty much pure AP items? Yeah, they're not wrong.

Now, they proposed to reduce or remove her armor shred in order to prevent her from dealing outsized amounts of physical damage while building AP items, and that's not something I'm going to necessarily say was the wrong tack to take. But there's something much less obvious that is also to blame for Fervor being OP on Kayle.

Namely, the way it interacts with her E.

No, not that it gives her range. That's a given, and has always been one of the bases of her periods of unbalance. Instead, what happens is that autoattacks with E up will give Kayle 3 Fervor stacks immediately due to the...frankly stupid way Kayle's E interacts with the abilities portion of Fervor.

So Rioteers, if you would do us all the favor of disabling Kayle's E from interacting with Fervor and adding it to 6.9 (you know, the patch where you're planning on gutting MR items again) post-haste, we could avoid another patch of frustration as another two weeks of (not so) sleeper OP Kayle inch past.

...Of course, I say all this, but it's unlikely that it will immediately have too much of an effect on our dear old outdated piece of crap. She'll likely continue to be OP and Rito will likely continue to ponder nerfs, but isn't it much more palatable than them giving her actual mana costs or actual downtime on E?

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