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.
Get boots early when playing against Syndra, they'll help you avoid many of her spells.
Attack Syndra after she's used Scatter the Weak, it has a long cooldown so she'll be vulnerable.
At max rank Syndra's spells gain bonus effects and change in appearance.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some influential Kayle vs. Syndra matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Syndra’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Syndra..
Kayle normally has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Typically, she receives more damage than Syndra. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually wins when facing off against Syndra, with a 53.2% win rate. Therefore, Kayle makes a great counter to Syndra.
While Kayle does have a higher win rate than Syndra, when facing one another, Kayle also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Kayle into Syndraas her relative depth means 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 CC and other utility, a similar amount to Syndra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Syndra matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kayle is a great counter to Syndra. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kayle against Syndra.
If you would like to truly master Kayle to counter Syndra during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Syndra. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Kayle versus Syndra build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Syndra than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average win rate of 53.2% when playing against Syndra with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Syndra as Kayle, Kayle players should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Kayle vs Syndra clashes, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.2% winrate overall.
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