Table of Contents

  • Intro
  • Why Kayle?
  • How to play:
    • Here are also some small mechanics that not everyone knows.
  • So what is Kayles win condtion?
  • Lets sum up the most important parts.
  • My Kayle Guide
  • MY STREAM
  • Runes (Loadout)
  • Summoner Spells (Loadout)
  • Skill Path
  • Item Builds
  • Matchups and Synergies

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Rank 1 "Kayle 1v9's" Kayle Guide

for Top and Mid

kayle 1v9

May 16th, 2023 ⸱ 18 min read



TLDR super quick guide

Quick Kayle AP Top Build

Summoner Spells

Starting Items

Best Overall Build

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Intro

Hello my Name is Kayle 1v9 I have been playing League since Season 3, I started one tricking Kayle at the end of Season 5 and have been pretty much only playing her since then. I have hit Grandmaster almost every single year since Season 10 and I am currently in Grandmaster as well. I play on EUW and EUNE. I have arround 7 million Mastery Points (combined) on Kayle.



Why Kayle?

What makes me enjoy

Kayle
so much is her 1v9 potential, having an insane scaling and being able to just dominate late game. Also maybe I'm a little masochist

What are the pros about

Kayle
: really good scaling, simple kid, good splitpusher and good teamfighting

What are the cons about

Kayle
: weak early game, really item and level dependend, needs time to come online, really selfish playstyle

So when should you pick up

Kayle
and when shouldn't you pick her?

Kayles worst enemy is hard CC, especially knock ups since they are not reducable by tenacity, Kayle also struggles into champs with a lot of range and mobility, but once you are on them its usually pretty easy to beat them. We talked about what bad comps are for her, but what about good condtions?



Kayle
really starts to shine when there's an healing or shieling support(
Lulu
,
Soraka
,
Zilean
) on your team, she also has some really nice synergy with junglers like
Jarvan IV
and
Sejuani
.



Kayle
counters assassins with her
Divine Judgment
and is really good into immobile champs or team comps, she also benefits from squishy enemies since she can pretty much just one shot any squishy adc or support late game.



How to play:

Let's talk about early game and how to play it: The most important part is for you to understand that

Kayle
isn't really a champion before level 6, so you need to be really careful in the first few levels, you rarley win trades so its just best to sit back and farm until you get your range at lvl 6. I usually just ignore my opponent and focus on farming. I don't really use my spells to poke, I'd rather use them to get last hits, your
Starfire Spellblade
costs no mana, so make sure to use it as much as possible. I'm maxing
Radiant Blast
every single time top and try to use it for both poking and last hitting at the same time.



Once you hit level 6 you can look for small auto attack trades with an AA +

Starfire Spellblade
reset whenever the opponent is collecting cs. I usually still just focus on farming until I'm level 11 because this is when I really get to play the game. Kayle can't really follow up roams, so everytime you see that the enemy laner is roaming, make sure to push in the wave, maybe get a plating and then just recall to buy items.

In mid game your first priority should still be getting as much cs possible so you can get that lvl 16 asap. A little trick is to just take some jungle camps on the way to lane or when you just shoved in a wave; I do this once im lvl 11 because it makes clearing the camps a lot easier with your waves. For Splitpushing you should stay in the oppoiste sidelane depending on which objective is going to be up next. So when there's dragon up soon you should go top lane and pressure the lane, but only when you got your tp up.



Once you hit that juicy lvl 16, its usually just best to group up with your team and look for objectives or force teamfights. Kayle has one of the best teamfight kits because your Ult can be such a big game changer. Ulting the right target at the right time can literally just be the game changer. Also a small tip, ulting your self or the stronges member of your team is your best bet to win. Don't hesiate using it to early, but try to not get baited into using it. You should never ult the 0/12

Yasuo
or your
Nami
support



Here are also some small mechanics that not everyone knows.

1. your auto attacks and your waves both have their own crit chance, So when your auto crits it doesnt necessarily mean that your wave will crit, and yes, your waves can crit.

2. Whenever you use your

Divine Judgment
, your
Divine Ascent
will get reset after ult ends no matter what, so when you have 4 stacks and they are about to run out you can just ult yourself to keep the 4 stacks.

3. Your

Starfire Spellblade
splash at lvl 11 also applies on turrets, inhibs and wards. Sometimes when the enemy sits really low under tower, or you are chasing someone to their tower but cant quite get them, just
Starfire Spellblade
the tower, a lot of people dont know that so use it as your advantage.

Extra Tip: Settings > Hotkeys > Abilities > Selfcast Spell 4 bind it to any key. I use my mouse button. This way I can use

Divine Judgment
on myself without having to actually click on Kayle.



So what is Kayles win condtion?

It's pretty simple, scale. As long as you farm safe, stay in xp range and dont die early on, you have really high chances of winning, you are a scaling champ, so the less you fall behind early, the easier it will be for you to win!



Lets sum up the most important parts.

First of all, dont pick her into comps with a lot of cc or range, you wont have a great time, I promise you. She's great into immobile champs with less hard cc.

Play passive, and I really mean passive, if you die early on or miss out on a big wave you are kinda screwed.

Focus on farming and gettting your items, stay in sidelane, farm jungle camps and make sure to only look for fights / tp plays when you have your

Divine Judgment
up. You pretty much beat any champ in a 1v1 late game so don't be too scared to try out stuff. Once you got your lvl 16, group up force fights, dont plays frontline and focus the squishy targets such as the adc.

My Kayle Guide

New 13.10 Guide will come very soon!



MY STREAM

I stream here pretty much every day at 2pm cest

Runes (Loadout)



Armor
or
Magic Resist
depending on who you play against.
Last Stand
against bruisers, mages and fighters,
Coup de Grace
for free match ups and
Cut Down
into tanks.



Press the Attack
against short trade champs,
Lethal Tempo
for extended trades (Tanks, other
Lethal Tempo
Champs etc.)
Fleet Footwork
is good if you wanna overall just play safer or to counter Sustain champs.

Triumph
into
Ignite
champs with lots of fighting power,
Presence of Mind
into tanks.
Overheal
only if you play with Sustain Items (
Riftmaker
,
Blade of The Ruined King
etc).

Bone Plating
against all in champs.
Second Wind
for poke and harass champs. Into free Match Ups
Sorcery
with
Gathering Storm
/
Absolute Focus
.
Arcane Comet
Page is kinda nice into
Jax
and
Jayce
(you just play like a poke mage).

  • PTA Rizzlords
  • Lethal Tempo Enjoyer
  • exquisite Fleet taker
  • hidden Arcane tech

Summoner Spells (Loadout)



  • Summoners

Skill Path



Radiant Blast
max is better for top. Better wave clear, better burst + poke dmg. Higher slow which makes it a lot easier to kite most top champs since they're mostly melee.

You can also put 3 Points into

Radiant Blast
and then max
Starfire Spellblade
. That works for both Top and Mid.

  • Mid Lane
  • Top Lane

Kayle

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Item Builds



Doran's Blade
into melees and if you wanna play aggro.
Doran's Shield
against poke and harass lanes.
Doran's Ring
nice for Q spam and if you play against hard lane that doesn't have lots of poke (Mages etc).
Cull
only good first options against free lanes such as
Garen
,
Singed
or if you're fine with using your
Teleport
early on.

  • Into Mages
  • Into Melees
  • Into Poke
  • AD Kayle
  • Chinese Build
  • Best AP 13.10 Build
  • Best On-Hit 13.10 Build
  • Energized Build 13.10



Matchups and Synergies



  • Matchups
  • Synergies



That's it for my guide. Join my stream or dm on twitter (@kayle_1v9) if you have any questions! :)



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Formes 9 months ago- Edited

when is the update coming?

good guide btw



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Kenda 10 months ago

thank you for your advise

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