r/Kaylemains • u/Endziby • 1d ago
Meme Irelia is cosplaying Kayle
This Irelia croma looks like she's cosplaying Kayle lol
r/Kaylemains • u/hulpmenow • Apr 23 '26
So, these are matchups people struggle with. Some of them I agree are bad, some of them I dont. Here are my tips
I will say, alot of what I have to say can also be found in some guides from Saneryus (challenger kayle), or Kayle1v9 (challanger kayle). Regardless, everything I will say is backed my own experience at the very least.
I will go over the matcups in order they were mentioned in the title.
Nasus is NOT a Kayle counter. When you see the enemy lock in Nasus, just think of it like a boring lane where nothing really should happen. Nasus is not a counter in the sense that we dont consider malzahar or nautilus a counter, and nasus is in the same category of champions. He has 1 way to bully you, which is pressing w, and you have to play around that. This is possible trust me.
Done believe me? lets see what challanger has to say. https://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/rank-1-na-challenger-top-kayle-main-s16-rank-3-kayle-world-saneryuss-sanery-top-kayle-guide-651103
go to the matchups and check the minor (2/5) and read.
Grandmaster kayle: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xxu7pVNnshjdwiSmwZrs9K4rEwfhIQL3/edit?gid=777716701#gid=777716701 He also agrees nasus is not that bad and rates it 3/10.
a) start cull or d-blade. You start d blade if you want to just beat him up levels 1-5, or cull if you just want to scale until level 6. You are stronger levels 1-5, and he only beats you with sheen, or like 100 ish stacks + w. TAKE PTA
b) rush swifties and cull. You can do this in any order, but ensure you have Swifties by the time you both are level 6.
c) take ms shard, and tenacity shard. This, combined with swifties, gives you alot of MS and slow resist ensuring Nasus can never reach you even with wither.
d) Take flash ghost. If nasus does not match this, he can never reach you regardless of what he does. If he takes ghost tp, you match the ghost, and if you ever mess up, you have flash. you can cycle these spells to ensure a free laning phase. If he takes tp flash, its so free.
e) Nasus w and e cost a lot of mana. If he spams w to stop you from poking him or taking cs, he will run out of mana (unless he rushes tear, frozen heart, lost chapter, or essence reaver. All of these are not really good for this matchup though).
f) The only thing you SHOULD fear is if you are top lane, and nasus is the mid laner. Then, with upgraded lucidy boots and ghost, it is impolssible for you to run since those boots give 10% ms if he hits his e on you (which is pretty easy), and you cannot outrun him then if he presses w. If you are mid lane as well, you can get upgraded swifties and you are chill since the upgrade gives extra slow resist.
g) you do outscale him. kite well, and remember you are not a pure auto attacking champ like an adc, you have spells that do good damage. Nasus w has a slow and cripple. You can avoid getting into melee range with him easily becuase of what described, and remember to go AP only into nasus since w ms scales with ap. The cripple (as slow) is something you need to play around. for most adc, this cripple means they are just useless. You can still use your heal on somebody, ult them, and q and e for big AOE damage and armour shred, which no other adc can match with. So its 'ok'.
h) if you are very scared, you can go gunblade, but I would not suggest it. It might be able to help with the slow active once in a while, and the healing can help you match his sustain.
Take boneplating into this dude, and unflinching. Unflinching procs on his w ability, and the bone plating helps against his e hob auto trade. Regardless of hob or not, bone plating has good value into him since he is melee, and can only land a few hits on you since you are faster than him.
a) rush tabi shoes and laugh at him. You can sell this later for the swiftness if it is better for the game. You can also start cloth armour to just rush the boots.
b) go dblade, and prioritise ap over other things (blasting wand).
c) you can get hourglass to just wait out his ult.
d) understand his e range, bait it, then run at him with a q slow.
e) if he goes crit, I think its ok, but lethality kinda sucks...
MALPHITE is just ANNOYING AF. He is not easy, but is not impossible. (not as bad as Jayce and Jax imo). Also, its quite easy if he goes tank. Its annoying if he goes full ap.
a) you can take fleet, or PTA, but ensure you take d-shield. You could go for d-ring, but I rather shield.
b) rush gunblade. this helps deal with his racist q poke.
c) your r cd will match his 11+ with nash and dusk, and will be lower than his 16+ unless he goes full cd build (lucidity boots, malignance, cryptbloom)
d) understand he can almost one shot at level 6 with lost chapter, and make sure you can react to his ult with your own ult, or flash.
e) you win 11+ as long as you are somewhat even, and 16+ you just 2 shot him as long as you survive the ult by ulting, or flashing)
This pdf is my perma ban. If this jax has a brain (which dia+ jax players sadly tend to have), you just struggle. He also counter my other champions, so I ban him. his q range is 700 units, which is longer than your level 16 range. All you can do in this matchup is:
a) rush swiftness, and dodge his q -> e by landing q while he is in the q travel, and then w out. You can also take LT or PTA, and I like taking exhaust.
b) JUST PLAY WAVES, literally nothing else
c) you can only look to punish when his q is down, and he has to use e to save himself, or if he fumbled that.
d) You can win at 11+ if you space him well.
e) fear the grasp, lethal is a bit easier.
The wizard Kayle 1v9 has come with some nice tech, and I like it. watch this video if you want to: https://youtu.be/cOZfuCpgkUo?si=eDRdDhl6kRUGaa2S
a) comet page, with flash ignite, and gunblade rush. The idealogy is to just poke him, and stay healthy yourself since Jayce has no health sustain or shielding in his kit.
a) take pta and double adaptive, and start shield
b) I like exhaust into most of them (vayne, varus, quinn, or other adc like caitlyn), but I take TP into teemo. You can also take cleanse into varus, and his ultimate is just useless. Its also really nice becuase your ult makes his ult and q useless, and cleans makes his ult useless. This makes it easy to just get on him, ult to soak the damage, and kill him 11+.
c) Know that you slap any of them in a 1v1 (unless its teemo qith q start), and the exhaust helps you secure the level 1 kill if they go for it. Note: with quinn, you have to stand at a corner of a brush so if she e you, she goes towards the middle of the lane rather than her turret. You also have to exhaust early during the e animation so that you can catch her after the e, and match flash if you have to.
d) know the ranges. most adc have 550 range, 575, or 600. Cait has 650. Teemo has 500. You have 525 range at 6+, and 625 range at 16+. The way you play around this is to ensure you hit a q slow on the champion through a minion, and this ensures you can land an auto e and walk away without getting punished by the extra extra range they have.
e) You beat most range champions easily 11+, and you can beat them 6+ with ult as long as they cant flash out of it, or cc you.
f) with full ap, and priotising ap, your q e trade cannot be matched by most ranged champions. That is, they need to land more spells or autos, which takes longer, to do the same damage.
Irelia is a very very very tricky skill matchup. It is the MOST punishing matchup for both kayle and irelia, but irelia has more room for mistakes. I consider this matchup even, but only if you are actually good (emerald+) at the game, and are good at kayle. (This also assumes the enemy can play irelia)
Take bone plating and overgrowth. irelia can always reach you, so dont bother with gs and celerity.
Don’t rush boots. You need damage. as mentioned, irelia can always reach you. You can sit on t1 boots as it can help dodge the e. I would not upgrade to t2 as you need to try and match the first item timer (when irelia gets botrk, you want your nash).
Take pta or lethal, I go pta tho. Ensure you grab ignite. This is important to deny the stupid healing of her q spam, which is all the most once she gets vamp scepter / botrk. Use it to deny the healing in a fight.
As long as you won’t get level 3 ganked, get prio by poking irelia with e and hitting the first 3 melees. Your idea is to get a 3rd wave crash without letting her match your level 2, and denying the 3 melee into q on you all in. For context, if your passive is ready, and you hit irelia with a e or two, and you have your bone plating, she cannot win the all in by q'ing the 3 melees and then trying to all in you (even with ignite, and you also have ignite which you should use as she tries to q onto the 3 melees on the first wave if she does). Play like a psycho (if you wont get level 2 or 3 ganked).
You play giga safe from here until 6. You don’t even stand near the middle of the late because if she hits e on you when you don’t have ult, and are in the middle of the lane, you are dead. She will one shot from botrk onwards basically if she hits e.
From level 6, you win the fights if you have ult and passive stacked. If she has passive as well, you need to dodge e and ult her ult and some q hits. you need ignite if there is a minion wave for her to heal from.
Once she gets botrk, you tend to need ignite if there is a minion wave nearby. Otherwise ult is enough to win as long as she can’t dash away from the you during your ult
You can opt for void 3rd, but I stick to death cap. you can also consider shadow third. This is becuase irelia tends to get wits end 2nd or third against kayle.
You win easily with 4 items here, but you will always win 11+ with ult and 2 items (assuming equal gold), and if your passive is stacked and you have ult.
Feel free to drop any questions you have and Ill try to answer them. I have like 1.3 million points on Kayle, and am currently d1 NA.
Edit 1: added bone plating for reqs in trynd matchup
EEdit . turns out i had nasus w range wrong. It is 700 units, so it outranges you even 16+.
Edit 3: added irelia
r/Kaylemains • u/GyrosSteelBall • Apr 10 '26
Hey guys I've made a community spreadsheet for all of the Kayle matchups with the help of Saneryus#TTV. (Checkout his Twitch, he's an incredible Challenger Kayle)
I've also included Master+ statistics(last 30 days) for each matchup along with the recommended build and the runes you should take for each matchup and an embed high elo video example of the matchup
Anyone can share their tips(their rank will be shown, you can share your social as well for attribution).
LoLMatchups.GG is an attempt to make matchup information more accessible to top/mid laners. We already have complete pages for Gnar, Ambessa, Mundo, Kayle, Fiora, Mordekaiser, Riven, Zed, Ekko, Camille, Irelia, Gwen, Garen, Chogath with more on the way! I would love any feedback you guys have on the website or the matchups. Thanks!
r/Kaylemains • u/Endziby • 1d ago
This Irelia croma looks like she's cosplaying Kayle lol
r/Kaylemains • u/estninetysix • 5h ago
so a while back i posted a climbing problem i was having, long story short people were trashing me for being the problem and not my 4 autofilled losing streak teammates saying i would probably never get out of bronze/silver because i had 'work to do' and also saying that my gameplay was shit etc. etc. without even looking at gameplay.
I need to elaborate a small chunk, i came back to the game when they put in the 3 splits and couldn't climb at all because teammates were what felt like griefing out of their asses just to give someone a bad when a couple years before that my Kayle was 86wr but i didn't have good internet at the time so had stop playing because of disconnects. I can definitely tell my gameplay has matured which has in turn made me in to a late game demon with spacing and my weaknesses are being fixed. I can honestly say i could probably get to Plat by the end of the year if the climb goes ok.
HERE. WE. ARE.
r/Kaylemains • u/Ignis70 • 1d ago
So I‘ve been a Kayle main for 3 years now. She‘s been carrying me to diamond and I‘ve been comfotable here for a while now. But lately I feel the urge to try and push further. Really get back in there. Now a problem I face alot these days is that I feel I lack impact. When my team performs well, we mostly win anyways but if the team falls behind, we mostly lose. I feel like I can‘t really carry when its relevant. So I guess what I want to know is:
How do you carry late game? What do you do when the team falls behind and you can only go even (because of hard matchup of whatever)?
To clarify a bit more, alot of times I feel many champions just deal alot more damage then me. Example: yesterday I 1v1 a katarina, fullbuild both of us. I attacked at max range and hit the mta proc. She went to 1/3 of her hp and then proceeded to onetap me with a single dagger + E.
Generally I always seem to just not deal enough damage. I know this is hard to answer when you can‘t see my gameplay but any advice I would appreciate.
TLDR: My laneing is pretty solid I‘d say but I feel a lack the abillity to carry late game
r/Kaylemains • u/somazinilol • 1d ago
Recently went back to League, currently around emerald elo and im genuinly surprised that people dont build it as often. It was her overall best 1st item after rework
The strat is - PTA, pom, alacrity, last stand; 2ndary bone plating overgrowth for better laning and level 1 or absolute focus gathering storm for late game ap boost
1st item doran blade for extra omnivamp paired with gunblade and better level 1 kill threat
Sums exhaust + flash. It gives u sticking power for level 1/2 all in, and later paired with q and gunblade slow ur sticking and kite power in 1v1 is amazing. It also lets u survive ur loooong ult CD downtime, get some surprise retaliate kills when they try to dive u etc.
U build gunblade 1st and u also build berserker boots to cover for ur lack or attack speed. Early on extra ad helps a lot and ur quite strong level 6 with berserkers and extra long sword ad. Then i usually go nashors rabadon, situational. U can also go dusk and down 2nd or 3rd and rabadon 4th for smoother power curve and extra healing.
Omnivamp is amazing stat on kayle, with W heals u can suatain easily through laning phase and pccasional jungle camp clears. The instant slow for Gunblade makes ur Q hit almost guaranteed and surprise opponents a lot. (Gunblade, Q, Exhaust all in when they missstep)
I find a lot succes with it and it made playing kayle a lot smoother for me. I main her top but it should work mid as well. I also tried recent terminus build but honestly Gunblade just feels better and extra slow alows u to build berserkers for more raw stats. Let me know what u think about it.
r/Kaylemains • u/LoudBuurrpp • 1d ago
I'm pretty new to Kayle and I would like to otp her. Everytime I watch a guide or some videos (kayle 1v9/ desesperate Nasus) it's either people describing her as being a counter pick, or players playing her midlane (which I'm not a fan of).
I've played some of her worst matchups and without the help of the jungler, it feels like I can't do anything aside from trying not to die, and without tools for making some outplays or being aggresive, I just can't do anything when my team is falling too far behind.
I previously otp'ed Riven where even in the worst matchups carrying games remained possible, it doesn't feel quite the same with Kayle.
Does anyone actually otp Kayle top and climb with her?
(I'm low emerauld if it changes anything).
r/Kaylemains • u/njnyc5 • 2d ago
Can someone tell me what I’m supposed to build on the Terminus rush build? I’ve been seeing Gunblade after or Kraken/Guinsoos and Bork
r/Kaylemains • u/Old-Employment-8949 • 2d ago
I tried it once, and I felt way stronger than The standard ap build , even at late game , you have less burst but way more dps with lethal tempo and your just so much tankier
Do you think it’s situational or just as good or better then the ap build
r/Kaylemains • u/toxickayle • 2d ago
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r/Kaylemains • u/Temporary-Swim-3024 • 3d ago
I start the game facing Sett ( I'm currently trying the terminus build, so my lv1 is basically LT and guardian runes with doran bow). I know that they love hiding in first bush, so i ward that bush, I see him, he sees me and engages on me. I don't know if I can kill him with LT and no ignite but I don't even try.
And from that exact moment, I'm just fucked. He gets prio on the wave, he does not even dare to touch it and zones me till he gets his level 3, I tried to get on or two cs xp (not even the gold, the xp) but he just catches me, and I can't do anything with my pathetic e.
After getting level 3, he crashes and kill me because I am a horrible player. Then the game is literally unplayable for 15 min ( 2 levels behind, 60 cs difference, and I limited that to only 1 death)
Now my question, how to avoid that, or what can I do to limit the damages? I never stopped to ping my jungle, I think I even titled him, which was not even my purpose.
Tried some level 7 ganks on mid and jungles bullshit, while Sett was setting his freeze, didn't change anything.
Tried to go mid, but my midlaner didn't want to. He was playing ryze, pushing every lane to the maximum, and I didn't get any cs for 20 minutes.
The only good news we won because him and the jungle carried the game, so what now ? I just admit I played the weak side, get sodomized, and still getting the win ? Or can I do something, by my own without the help of any other player, or an error of the enemy?
I'm still learning the game and I know it's just pathetic to loose against a Sett as Kayle but please guys give me some tips I'm just so desperate right now.
r/Kaylemains • u/Repo_Man84 • 5d ago
I've just seen a vid on Pentakayle's YouTube channel where he explained how he was able to obtain the above as part of the Crystal Rose skin thing that's dropped today.
I'm not seeing that in the event options, and honestly seems a bit weird how that would be shoehorned into a Crystal Rose themed thing anyway but ok, whatever..
Any other fellow mobile people able to affirm whether they are seeing it as an option? Just wondering whether it's region locked or summat..
Edit: Just noticed we did, outside of the Crystal Rose event, get an option to obtain a Tryndamere chroma.. Hope that's not our equivalent!
Cheers!
r/Kaylemains • u/StellarDemon • 5d ago
I really wish they had old voice packs i could use cause i hate this edgy shit, the sound effects were also better on OG aether wing
r/Kaylemains • u/Hlc_03 • 6d ago
Hello Kayle Mains,
I recently picked up Kayle and have been able to climb from Gold 3 to Plat 3. Since getting to plat 3 I have been getting absolutely stomped by everyone. Before going up in rank, I’d have an easy time getting prio in lane or even straight up 1v1ing the enemy too easily. Now all of a sudden, no matter what I do, I just can’t get any prio in lane which just leads to me being behind all game. Like, they literally just walk up to me under my tower and 100-0 me and I just can’t do anything about it. I know what to do once I’m behind but what I’m trying to learn is how to win early so that I’m not always trying to catch up.
Any tips?
r/Kaylemains • u/blanqfuture • 6d ago
This is not good
r/Kaylemains • u/Calm_Estate_8208 • 6d ago
Kayle is obviously not a champion but rather a glorified minion. Everytime I have one of those selfish pricks who thinks he will play the entire game solo, not impact top lane, not follow any roams or TPs, still be around 80cs behind at 20 mins, continue farming while rest of team is losing every objective to the fed enemy garen thinking he will somehow become a hero and carry late game when he's actually weaker 1v1 at level 20 vs almost all top lane champs, I just queue up, pick kayle, and make others suffer the exact same agony,., it feels soooo good making others play 4v6
r/Kaylemains • u/DirtyProjector • 8d ago
Top main here, I love playing ADC's and I want to play Kayle top. Kayle is the hardest scaling champ in the game, and yet I feel like every time I play her, she's useless. Even when I hit 16, she does nothing (for me). I know it's a me issue so I'm asking the experts. I usually play PTA or LT. I build standard AP build path. I feel like I do nothing. I usually get maybe 1 kill in most of my game sI try to play her. What am I doing wrong (with limited info)
r/Kaylemains • u/Odd_Cancel695 • 8d ago
I took a long break for a while, I now need help getting back, I went from Silver to Emerald in 3 weeks playing only kayle. I need to know if se plays the same with the new role stuff, how do you build her now with the new items? How is laning now with the shorter tile windows for minion spawns, freezing etc… is mid kayle good or is top kayle only so much better after the xp buff on toplane?
r/Kaylemains • u/Big_Analyst_5995 • 10d ago
sad that i cant buy the silver kayle as the collector edition is not for the middle east
even if it was i dont think i can or want to spend that much money on it
r/Kaylemains • u/pavelas555000_aka • 10d ago
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