Kai'Sa vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Kai'Sa
based on 4,719 Kai'Sa vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Kayle
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Advice to Win Against Kayle
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.
Kai'Sa vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several critical Kai'Sa against Kayle matchup stats that can help you realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kayle’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kayle..
Kai'Sa usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Kayle. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Kayle
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Kayle?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when taking on Kayle, with a 44.5% win rate. Therefore, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Kayle.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower win rate compared to Kayle, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Kayle.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a bad counter for Kayle. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Kayle during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa often racks up a similar amount of CS as Kayle. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Kayle build include Stormrazor, Nashor's Tooth, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Kai'Sa included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Kayle than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 44.5% when countering Kayle with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Kayle as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Kai'Sa vs Kayle counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.5% win rate overall.
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