Kayle vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Kayle
based on 4,292 Kayle vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Malphite
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Advice to Win Against Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Kayle vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Kayle in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some strategic Kayle against Malphite matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between these two champions. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malphite’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Malphite..
Kayle typically has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Malphite. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Malphite
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Who is Better, Kayle or Malphite?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kayle usually fairs equally well when playing against Malphite, with a 50.1% win rate. Thus, Kayle makes an ok counter to Malphite.
While Kayle does have a higher win rate than Malphite, when they face off with one another, Kayle also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Kayle into Malphiteas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayle also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malphite. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Malphite matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a decent counter to Malphite. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kayle against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kayle to counter Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Malphite. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Kayle versus Malphite build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Riftmaker. When Kayle used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Malphite than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kayle boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when playing against Malphite with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Malphite as Kayle, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Kayle vs Malphite counters, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Malphite as Kayle are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.