Kayle...?

ActuallyArrow·3/28/2015, 6:34:10 PM·1 votes·897 views

I own , because Riot gave her away free with a skin for good behavior a while back (apparently). I never really use her, she just kinda sits there and collects digital dust. The reason for this is... I have no clue what she is. She looks like she'd be a tank/AD, but I also feel she'd be a good AP champ. So... Where does she go? What does she build? I sometimes get her when playing ARAM, and do completely bad with her. If I had any idea how to use her, I might not be so bad with her.

10 Comments

exiledFromBadmen3/28/2015, 6:47:07 PM1 votes

She's playing as an AP DPS champion right now, at both top and middle lanes. I don't really know what to build too, but I have some ideas: item 3115 + item 3085 *+ item 3020 / item 3158 + item 3089 / item 3285 + item 3135 + item 3026

*Used to be built a lot on her when she was OP, I don't know its usage after 4.11

Leti the Yeti3/28/2015, 8:32:09 PM1 votes

AP/AS middle top supporting marksman in the jungle

iSpencer3/28/2015, 9:19:57 PM1 votes

https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=kayle%20guide

Hasztalan23/29/2015, 10:01:58 PM1 votes

WEll actually she is one of the few remaining champs who can be built as almost anything and literally every item is good on her in the game (altough some combos work more efficently on her than others).

Generally there are 3 main ways: The pure AP , the onhit AP-attackspeed and pure AD.

Main thing about Kayle that she uses her E and her passive to deal crapton damage while she maintains her fragile self with her ult and the speedboost/heal from W.

Acidic Puddle3/30/2015, 12:22:40 PM1 votes

Well you know a champion is in a bad place when you are playing with your level 23 friend and get yelled at for picking a support in the jungle. I carried that game with the AS-onhit build with item 3726 and {{item:3115} That was about as far as i } .

BastionKross3/30/2015, 12:36:39 PM1 votes

You can build her any way and take her to any role you want. AD bruiser top. AP burst mid. AS jungler. DPS marksman. Poke/sustain support. You can even roam with her if you like the idea of roaming but think Bard is weak.

Solidair33/30/2015, 4:04:56 PM1 votes

Kayle is one of the more unique champions in the game, in that she can build ANY offensive stat and get something out of it (Much like Jax!). On the flipside, she doesn't get much out of tanky stats, other than like the armor from zhonya's or MR from Abyssal Scepter or Wit's End.

The most important thing to know about Kayle, though, is how to use her ultimate. Typically you won't be using it to save lives that are almost lost. That 25 HP adc will appreciate living for three more seconds, but then they die right after, and there you are without an ult. The best use of Kayle's ult is preventing damage from occurring at all, usually at the start of a team fight right before the enemy team unloads everything onto their primary target.

In most builds you'll want to have attack speed in some form, even if it's not your primary goal. The reason for this is that her E is where most of her damage comes from, and since that is based on auto-attacking, the more you auto-attack the more damage you can do! (It also helps stack up her passive faster).

Now for builds. The primary place I take Kayle is in the jungle, and there I prefer to go with a more attack speed oriented build based around the Devourer enchant. (Also, I should point out here in most builds you will max E first, as with attack speed it is your primary damage source) Anyway. My build path typically looks like this in the jungle: item 3726 > item 3158 > item 3115 > item 3085 > item 3157 > item 3135 / item 3089 / item 3091 (depending on what I need the most). This gives Kayle CRAZY attack speed, and thanks to hurricane's AoE you can melt entire teams like this. It also gives you 40% CDR, which means your ult is up almost constantly. Also of note is that your E will have 100% uptime, which means you can stay in range at all times.

Kayle can also be built AD, and this build is more typical of any adc/marksman/bruiser build. You won't be getting Hydra, generally, as even though Kayle is sometimes a melee champion, this is typically when she is waiting for E to go off CD and re-positioning herself. You should not ever be in melee range, is basically what I mean here.

Kayle's can also focus on a more typical AP build, but even in this case you'll still want to have AT LEAST a nashor's tooth for the cooldown reduction and attack speed that synergizes so well with her kit. Often your build will look more like a typical mage: item 3115 > item 3020 / item 3158 > item 3089 > item 3157 > item 3135 > item 3285 / item 3116 (again, whatever you need here, basically) or something like that. I am personally of the belief that runaan's hurricane is still a great addition to this build, but you can probably live without it if you prefer a burstier build. It's bascially the difference between dealing tons of damage with each swing or dealing smaller damage, but in an AOE really fast. It's all about what you prefer!

Valykire3/31/2015, 2:41:10 AM1 votes

AP/on-hit is pretty normal on Kayle now, but she is super versatile. Rather than item 3085 and a bunch of AP, sometimes I go item 3116 + item 3151 after item 3115 against people I need to kite out, like Darius or Udyr . If you need to build AD, item 3006 item 3087 item 3153 item 3142 item 3031 dishes out plenty of damage; it's basically an ADC build. item 3124 is a pretty cool item to get on Kayle too, since it lets her duel even better than normal. She is also one of my favorite supports. Her heal is good for letting the ADC stay in lane, she can poke, and she can slow enemies down. Grabbing item 3504 after item 2049 lets me buff my ADC's attack speed, and of course there is the ult.

Basically, she is a very offense-heavy champion. Pretty much all of the damage items help her out, even item 3078 and item 3074 if you wanted to; however, building her tank isn't very good.

bad arcade kitty3/31/2015, 2:54:16 AM1 votes

when you have no idea what to build you can go to http://champion.gg/champion/Kayle and check there (right now it has few games because the patch was recently, the item build was slightly different the previous patch, there were a few jungle games as well)

so, item 3115 > item 3020 -> item 3089 -> item 3100 ( item 3085 was popular there too) -> item 3135 r>e>q>w people tend to use 30/0/0, 27/0/3 or 21/9/0 etc ordinary tanky ap runes with red mpen yellow armor and blue mr