Viktor vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Viktor
based on 1,586 Viktor vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Kayle
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
Advice to Win Against Kayle
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.
Viktor vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Viktor in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several vital Viktor against Kayle matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kayle’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kayle..
Viktor typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Kayle. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Viktor and Kayle
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Who is Better, Viktor or Kayle?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Viktor usually wins when playing against Kayle, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Viktor makes a good counter for Kayle.
While Viktor does have a higher winrate than Kayle, when facing one another, Viktor also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Viktor into Kayleas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Viktor also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Kayle matchups, Viktor is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Viktor is an above average counter to Kayle. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Viktor against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Viktor 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Kayle. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Viktor versus Kayle build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Kayle than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Viktor had an average winrate of 52.4% when countering Kayle with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Kayle as Viktor, Viktor players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Viktor vs Kayle LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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