Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
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.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several strategic Mordekaiser against Kayle counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Mordekaiser’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kayle’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Mordekaiser may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kayle..
Mordekaiser normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Kayle. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away 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, Mordekaiser usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kayle, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Mordekaiser makes an ok counter for Kayle.
While Mordekaiser does have a higher winrate compared to Kayle, when facing one another, Mordekaiser also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Mordekaiser into Kayle.
Furthermore, Mordekaiser also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Mordekaiser vs Kayle matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Mordekaiser is a decent counter to Kayle. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Mordekaiser against Kayle.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Mordekaiser in order to counter Kayle during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Mordekaiser typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Kayle. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Mordekaiser versus Kayle build include Spirit Visage, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Mordekaiser used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Kayle than with many other common item sets. In fact, Mordekaiser boasted an average win rate of 50.2% battling Kayle with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Kayle as Mordekaiser, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Mordekaiser vs Kayle fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kayle as Mordekaiser are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located above.