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.
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some significant Kayle vs. Taliyah matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Taliyah..
Kayle typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually wins when trying to fight Taliyah, with a 51.9% win rate. As a result, Kayle makes a good counter to Taliyah.
While Kayle does have a higher win rate compared to Taliyah, when facing one another, Kayle also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kayle into Taliyahas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayle has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Taliyah matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a higher 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 Taliyah. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayle against Taliyah.
To truly master Kayle to counter Taliyah 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 displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle typically picks up more CS compared to Taliyah. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically 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 Taliyah build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Kayle incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Taliyah than with many other common builds. In fact, Kayle had an average winrate of 51.9% when countering Taliyah with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Taliyah as Kayle, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Kayle vs Taliyah fights, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.9% win rate overall.
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