Mid · 184 games

Kayle

Mid · 37% of games Top · 59%

Strongest when games end at 30–35 minutes (65%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−749 gold).

Win rate: 48.4%; ±7.2 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #51 of 81
Pick rate: 1.0%; ban 0.8%
Games: 184; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Kayle mid wins 48.4% of 184 ranked games, rank 51 of 81 mid champions (tier C). Most players finish Nashor's Tooth first, at about 13:48.

The build at a glance

What most Kayle players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Boots

Boots of Swiftness 7:06 · 85% of games

Item 1

Nashor's Tooth 13:50 · 98% · 169 games

Item 2

Dusk and Dawn 19:53 · 90% · 129 games

Item 3

Rabadon's Deathcap 25:37 · 92% · 70 games

Item 4

Shadowflame 29:46 · 61% · 17 games

Item 5 · late game

Void Staff 33:30 · 6 of 13 games

Runes

Press the Attack · Precision + Sorcery 29% of games · 44% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Blade + Health Potion 44% of games · 56% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Teleport 58% of games · 48% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Radiant Blast first 86% of games · 48% wins Skill orders →

When Kayle wins

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′35% wins35% of games · 65

Lasts 25′ or more56% wins64% of games · 117

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Kayle games

First Baron: 93% against 30%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 30% 93% +63

First tower 30% 80% +50

First dragon 32% 71% +40

Rift Herald 36% 73% +37

First blood 39% 55% +15

First Voidgrubs 50% 47% −3

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Kayle plays

Fewer control wards, fewer solo kills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average mid laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

Fewer control wards a game0.42 against 1.01 · −58%

Fewer solo kills a game1.2 against 1.8 · −33%

More damage to towers8584 against 6819 · +26%

Less damage a minute683 against 839 · −19%

Less share of team damage20% against 24% · −15%

About average: vision, gold.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~13:48

Item 2done ~19:48

Item 3done ~25:12

Item 4done ~28:54

Item 5done ~33:42

Most common full builds

Boots of Swiftness › Nashor's Tooth › Dusk and Dawn › Rabadon's Deathcap 47.6%42 games

Boots of Swiftness › Nashor's Tooth › Dusk and Dawn › Rabadon's Deathcap › Shadowflame 92.3%13 games

Boots of Swiftness › Nashor's Tooth › Dusk and Dawn › Rabadon's Deathcap › Void Staff 63.6%11 games

Boots of Swiftness › Nashor's Tooth › Dusk and Dawn › Shadowflame 83.3%6 games

Boots of Swiftness › Nashor's Tooth › Rabadon's Deathcap › Lich Bane 100.0%4 games

Boots of Swiftness › Nashor's Tooth › Dusk and Dawn › Rabadon's Deathcap › Shadowflame › Void Staff 25.0%4 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Shadowflame 80%10

Void Staff 71%7

Rabadon's Deathcap 63%32

Dusk and Dawn 52%50

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Blade + Health Potion55.6%81

Doran's Shield + Health Potion38.0%79

Doran's Bow + Health Potion + Health Potion50.0%14

Boots

Boots of Swiftness ~7:0647.8%157

Sorcerer's Shoes ~12:3675.0%12

Gluttonous Greaves ~8:5475.0%4

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport47.7%107

Flash + Ghost50.0%42

Exhaust + Flash47.4%19

Skills

Max

W47.8%159

Max

W52.6%19

Start

Q46.3%95

Start

W49.3%75

Hard lanes

No clearly hard lane yet

Easy lanes

No clearly easy lane yet

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 1 of 1, still wins 0 of them

Expected: what Kayle's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (26)

Viktor 11% · 9

Yasuo 67% · 9

Zed 57% · 7

Galio 43% · 7

Locke 33% · 6

Syndra 50% · 6

Twisted Fate 50% · 6

Sylas 67% · 6

Aurora 33% · 6

Azir 33% · 6

Akali 40% · 5

Zoe 60% · 5

Kassadin 60% · 5

Katarina 40% · 5

LeBlanc 20% · 5

Yone 25% · 4

Cassiopeia 0% · 4

Ekko 33% · 3

Vex 67% · 3

Orianna 67% · 3

Lucian 33% · 3

Hwei 100% · 3

Nasus 100% · 3

Taliyah 33% · 3

Akshan 33% · 3

Qiyana 33% · 3

Kayle vs Ahri · 13 games · Early read

About what you would expect

46%winsexpected 48%

−757gold at 15′average −749

−14.5minions at 10′ahead or behind

0%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.08 a game

Gold lead against Ahri Kayle's average lead

Against Ahri, Kayle is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 77% of games, and still wins 50% of those. When ahead, Kayle wins 33%.

Ahead at 15′33% wins3 games

Behind at 15′50% wins10 games

Full Kayle vs Ahri page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Kayle games: Tristana

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble

Tristana37% · exp. 47% −1019 games

Jhin43% · exp. 50% −821 games

Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy support Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier

Thresh61% · exp. 45% +1618 games

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies less than most mid laners

Before 14 minutes Kayle dies 1.9 times a game (average 2.2). 41% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 50% for the average mid laner. 40% are fair 1-v-1s.

1.9deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.2)

41%involve the enemy junglerless than average (50%)

60%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (67%)

62%with no teammate nearabout average (61%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Kayle dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

Ganks: 47% in your half of mid. Collapses: 40% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 75% in your half of mid.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average mid laner

What kills Kayle

Kind of death

Kayle Average

Gank 41% (avg 50%)Collapse 19% (avg 17%)1-v-1 40% (avg 33%)

Who gets the kill

Kayle Average

Bot laner 6% (avg 7%)Jungler 24% (avg 28%)Support 6% (avg 7%)Mid laner 60% (avg 54%)Top laner 4% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 7:00 and 9:00

Kayle Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00, 7:00 and 9:00.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Kayle; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Kayle wins fights

Wins fights in the bot-side river, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 2.3 kills per death in the bot-side river against 0.2 in your half of mid. Overall 0.8 kills per death.

Your half of mid 0.2 K/D 49 / 199

Their half of mid 1.6 K/D 72 / 44

Your jungle 1.0 K/D 31 / 32

The bot-side river 2.3 K/D 42 / 18

The top-side river 1.5 K/D 34 / 22

Their jungle 1.5 K/D 19 / 13

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Kayle wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsWorth knowingNear 28% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 27%). The team wins 79% when Kayle is there and 70% when not.

Kayle

What most Kayle players run

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 93% against 30%

Fewer control wards, fewer solo kills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Behind at 15 against 1 of 1, still wins 0 of them

About what you would expect

Enemies that cost Kayle games: Tristana

Teammates that change Kayle's games

Dies less than most mid laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

What kills Kayle

Ganks come at 3:00, 7:00 and 9:00

Wins fights in the bot-side river, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of bot lane

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in their half of top lane