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Kayle.

Lenny Face xd·10/27/2019, 4:31:25 PM·1 votes·976 views

How do you counter Kayle? her designed counterplay is to bully her early and out of lane, right? How are you supposed to bully this champion out of lane when she can literally just last hit from range with q and e, and because her e especially only costing 50 mana, she has enough mana to farm from range and farm you with klepto and even if you do engage on her, she just press's w, becomes faster than Usain Bolt and simply runs away. OH BUT WAIT, THERES MORE. At level 6 she also becomes RANGED, so instead of bullying HER out of lane she starts to bully YOU out of lane. How can Riot be so blind to see how much a problem this is, she has a 54% winrate and usually champions like this arnt picked in pro play unless they are super broken, but oh wait, kayle was also picked in worlds, fix your shitty ass game, put forth some effort, because there is no effort being shown here.

Edit: In all of my games, whenever she is not banned, she gets picked, and she wins every single time.

4 Comments

Spiffy McBang10/27/2019, 4:57:40 PM2 votes

If Kayle is left alone, she's vulnerable to a lot of top laners, but if she's careful and doesn't worry about matching the opponent's farm, she can at least survive to 6. She's the definition of a tower hugger early. Her Q and E give her some ability to last hit from range, but it's not enough unless she's badly outplaying the enemy (somehow).

Her real vulnerability is if she tries to maintain some kind of lane presence and gets ganked. When she's been stomped out by teams at worlds, it's because of ganks and tower dives early. If you're the one facing her, call for ganks. If you're the jungler and you don't try to gank Kayle, you have only yourself to blame when she gets out of control. If you're in a different lane, tell your team to remember she needs to get stepped on early and often, and hope they listen.

She was given ranged attacks at 6 because she was basically unplayable when she didn't go ranged until 11, so that's not going to change. If her level 6 ranged is pushing someone around, they're just getting beat, because it's a single-target attack, like a short-range ADC (525, slightly less than Vayne). Her combat power is in high-speed sweeping auto attacks, which don't kick in until 11, so you have probably 16-17 minutes to work on punishing her and getting leads for the people who have to face her down. It's a sizable window. Make use of it.

Darkdemon65310/27/2019, 9:08:49 PM1 votes

She isn't even a champion prior to hitting 6. Once she hits 6, she's a worse Teemo. If that's something you can't handle, you should play a different game.

only luciano10/27/2019, 10:02:58 PM1 votes

Champs that destroy her Tryndamere Riven Chogath Camille Rengar Volibear . Learn how to freeze the wave near your tower so your jungler can gank when she comes to CS.