Kayle vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Kayle
based on 2,568 Kayle vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Kayle vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some significant Kayle versus Soraka counter stats that can help you figure out the differences between this set of champions. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Soraka. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Kayle normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives more damage than Soraka. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kayle and Soraka
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Who is Better, Kayle or Soraka?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kayle usually fairs equally well when playing against Soraka, with a 50.7% win rate. Therefore, Kayle makes an ok counter for Soraka.
While Kayle does have a higher winrate than Soraka, when on opposite teams, Kayle also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Kayle into Sorakaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayle has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Soraka matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kayle is a decent counter for Soraka. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kayle against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kayle to counter Soraka during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle most often accumulates much more CS as Soraka. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kayle versus Soraka build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Kayle included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Soraka than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average winrate of 50.7% when countering Soraka with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Soraka as Kayle, Kayle players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Kayle vs Soraka LoL games, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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