Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several significant Fiddlesticks against Kayle matchup statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kayle’s ratio of NaN, showing that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kayle..
Fiddlesticks usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Kayle. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually loses when playing against Kayle, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Fiddlesticks makes a bad counter for Kayle.
While Fiddlesticks does have a lower win rate compared to Kayle, when they face off with one another, Fiddlesticks also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Fiddlesticks into Kayleas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Fiddlesticks also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Fiddlesticks is a somewhat poor counter for Kayle. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Fiddlesticks against Kayle.
To truly master Fiddlesticks to counter Kayle during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Kayle. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Fiddlesticks versus Kayle build consist of Malignance, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Fiddlesticks included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Kayle than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when countering Kayle with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Kayle as Fiddlesticks, Fiddlesticks players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Fiddlesticks vs Kayle counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kayle as Fiddlesticks are presented for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.