Skill usage Edit

• Aggressive use of  Reckoning allow Kayle to dominate her lane effectively.
  • Watch out for the mana cost however, Kayle has very low base mana.
• Use  Divine Blessing to get back to your lane quicker.
•  Righteous Fury's magic damage will hit the target regardless of blind effects and Jax's  Counter Strike.
•  Righteous Fury's splash damage will damage turrets but not inhibitors if you attack a minion or champion near them.
  • Inversely,  Righteous Fury will deal splash damage when attacking an inhibitor but not when attacking a turret.
• If  Righteous Fury's duration ends while Kayle is in the middle of her attack animation, she will hit the target, but neither the bonus damage nor the splash will be dealt. The attack is considered ranged.
• It is possible to hit enemies easily while staying at the back of your minion wave by using  Righteous Fury. This can be accomplished because not only does the splash damage 'spill' over to nearby enemies when you last hit a minion, but also allows you to harass melee enemies. Staying behind your wave in this fashion will let you wait for cooldowns and heal yourself or allies.
• Putting a point into  Righteous Fury instead of  Reckoning at level one may improve your ability to harass and stay in lane due to its lower mana cost and more continuous effect/duration.
• Use  Intervention to rescue fleeing allies,  Divine Blessing to hasten them, and  Reckoning to slow their pursuers.
•  Intervention is also an effective ability to bait enemies to attack or turret dive at low health making them commit to killing your ally or die.
• It may not always be best to  Intervention an ally when they are nearly dead. If they are about to receive a large amount of burst damage (such as Annie's combo), shielding them will absorb more damage than if you were to shield them just before death (which may end up saving their life or prolonging it more effectively than if you had waited until the last second).
•  Intervention will not grant invulnerability against the Nexus Obelisk.

Build usage Edit

• Build damage first and then attack speed items as it is inadvisable to commit to battles in the laning phase. For such damage, Hextech Gunblade is a good choice.
• Getting an item with mana regeneration at the beginning of the laning phase, along with getting at least one rank of  Divine Blessing allows you to stay in your lane much longer.
• Cooldown reduction is very strong on Kayle. With 40% CDR, you can have  Righteous Fury always active since its duration is 10 seconds and its cooldown is reduced to 9.6 seconds.
  • Nashor's Tooth in conjunction with masteries and runes is easily able to achieve the CDR cap.
  • Using attack speed and ability power in combination with  Righteous Fury can yield devastating results in teamfights.
  • Building items with on-hit effects such as Blade of the Ruined King will boost your damage output on top of  Righteous Fury
• Pure ability power  Kayle might have high damage in  Reckoning and useful heals but combining it with attack speed will cause  Righteous Fury to do tremendous damage and very fast.
  • Nashor's Tooth with Malady, and then Rabadon's Deathcap will give Kayle a ridiculously high damage output.
  • Rylai's Crystal Scepter will increase her already high base health (2092 at level 18) and improve the slow from  Reckoning and apply slow on her  Righteous Fury autoattacks.
• Kayle can also play a supporting role with items that provide auras to benefit both yourself and your allies.
  • In particular, Abyssal Scepter synergizes well with  Holy Fervor to soften up enemies for your allies.
• Since Kayle receives at least moderate benefits from almost every stat in the game, Trinity Force is quite effective on Kayle.
  • For similar reasons, Guinsoo's Rageblade is also a cost effective choice on Kayle.
  • Also due to this, purchasing a Sword of the Occult with a Mejai's Soulstealer when you are able to confidently secure kills can cause Kayle to snowball into a powerhouse.
• Runaan's Hurricane applies  Righteous Fury bonus damage against the secondary targets, causing them to recieve it twice (once from Fury area of effect and once from Runaan secondary targets).
  • This will cause secondary targets to recieve more damage than the primary one unless Kayle has very high attack damage and no ability power.

Recommended builds Edit

Summoner's Rift recommended items
Starting		3
Essential
Offensive
Defensive
Consumables

The Proving Grounds recommended items
Starting				2
Essential
Offensive
Defensive
Consumables

The Crystal Scar recommended items
Starting	2
Essential
Offensive
Defensive
Consumables

The Twisted Treeline recommended items
Starting
Essential
Offensive
Defensive
Consumables

Countering Edit

• Remember that  Holy Fervor will shred your armor and magic resistance if left unchecked. Keep this in mind before attacking her.
  • The combination of  Reckoning,  Holy Fervor and very likely a Guinsoo's Rageblade will make Kayle very potent at duels, stronger the longer the duel lasts.
  • If she starts to weaken she will likely use  Intervention to quickly turn to tides of the duel and kill you. Because of this avoid duels that last too long.
• Kayle has very fast and strong snowball skill, make sure to deny her kills as it will hasten her late-game supremacy.
• Watch her build carefully to know what to do:
  • If she is AP( most likely with large amounts of AS)  she must be immediately shut down as it scales into a deadly powerhouse late-game , but is very weak early.All her damage comes from  Reckoning  and  Righteous Fury . This build depends heavily on  Intervention for survivality as it's fragile , baiting her on using it on a wounded ally and switching your focus into her will take her out quickly. DO NOT ENGAGE ALONE.
  • If she is AD  she stands strong at all stages of the game , she does not depends much on her skills for damage and is somewhat tanky , she deals less damage than an average top laner due to lack of AD scaling on any skill apart from  Reckoning and any AS or AD steroid. Later on Kayle will become akin to a second AD Carry albeit with the ability to become invulnerable, make sure to engage her in planned out fights.
  • If she is supporting it's very likely that she leaves the role after a while , most likely deviating into the first mentioned build , but still taking care of wards and heals. facing her in the bot lane  can be very hard if you are unable to keep your distance be sure to pick a mobile or long ranged champion
• Kayle is especially hard to beat in the top lane, due to overly outranging almost all other champions here. The few ranged ones, like Jayce, and the ones with long-ranged gap closers, such as Jax or Renekton, will have a much easier time against her.
• Avoid duelling her late game as she will most likely have almost finished items. She excels at 1v1's due to her   Reckoning and   Intervention. This not only allows her deal incredible amounts of damage against you, but also completely negate any damage you can deal to her.
• Be careful with Kayle's  Reckoning and  Righteous Fury combo. Both of these spells can kite you if combined together.
• Her ultimate,  Intervention blocks any form of damage to the target with this buff, including true damage. Wait until the buff wears off before you use your high-damaging spell.
• Never underestimate Kayle's mobility.  Divine Blessing gives her movement speed and  Reckoning will slow you down, allowing her to outrun you.
• With 2092 health at level 18 Kayle has a very high natural health, abilities and items that deal % of max health as damage are effective against Kayle.
• Try to force Kayle to use her spells and then back off, due to her high mana costs in the early game. 
• Kayle is vulnerable early game, burst damage can easily kill her.
• Kayle can use  Intervention to avoid damage, but while in this state she is still vulnerable to CC effects. Use this tactically when she turret dives to have her still take damage when Intervention's short duration wears off. (2 / 2.5 / 3 seconds).
• Because  Reckoning is her only nuke buying Banshee's Veil will significantly cripple her damage.

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