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Kayle Build

Mid Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 3,928 gamesUpdated

50.5%win rate0.2%pick1.0%ban

Who counters Kayle

Every Mid matchup for Kayle, ranked →

How to build Kayle

Swiftmarch→Nashor's Tooth→Dusk and Dawn→Rabadon's Deathcap

Swiftmarch → Nashor's Tooth → Dusk and Dawn → Rabadon's Deathcap

64.6% win rate 58% of games 1,408 games
RunesPrecisionPress the AttackAbsorb LifeLegend: AlacrityLast StandSorceryCelerityGathering Storm36% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport67%
Skills
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Radiant Blast
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Celestial Blessing
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Starfire Spellblade
19101213
Divine Judgment
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Kayle build →
50.5%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.3% over 9,909 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.5% over 3,928 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
48.9%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
1.0%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
36.6%under 22 min
58.7%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Kayle champion portraitM KaylevsKatarina champion portraitM Katarina
6 / 3 / 10

Build

Swiftmarch|Nashor's Tooth→Dusk and Dawn→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

ExhaustFlash|

Skills

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Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Kayle champion portraitM KaylevsYone champion portraitM Yone
4 / 7 / 5

Build

Gunmetal Greaves|Guinsoo's Rageblade→Terminus→Nashor's Tooth

Spells & runes

GhostFlash|

Skills

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Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Kayle champion portraitM KaylevsKled champion portraitM Kled
8 / 1 / 7

Build

Swiftmarch|Nashor's Tooth→Dusk and Dawn

Spells & runes

GhostFlash|

Skills

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Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 53.2% win rate · 36% of games · 1,243 games
PrecisionPress the AttackAbsorb LifeLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
SorceryCelerityGathering Storm
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 45.8% win rate · 12% of games · 402 games
PrecisionLethal TempoAbsorb LifeLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
SorceryCelerityGathering Storm
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport67%50.7%2,697 games
  • FlashGhostFlash + Ghost14%53.1%582 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Swiftmarch73%Gunmetal Greaves17%Spellslinger's Shoes6%
Swiftmarch most often · 51.8% win rate

Kayle build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Nashor's Tooth1st
  2. Dusk and Dawn2nd
  3. Rabadon's Deathcap3rd
15% of games that reach a third item take this path62.6% win rate358 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Kayle →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 3,945 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

SwiftmarchSwiftmarch
71% · 52.3% win rate
Gunmetal GreavesGunmetal Greaves
17% · 47.5% win rate
Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
6% · 48.2% win rate
Immortal PathImmortal Path
2% · 61.4% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
2% · 51.4% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
1% · 54.5% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Nashor's Tooth›Dusk and Dawn+Swiftmarch10% of games · 35.7% win rate · 406 games
  2. Nashor's Tooth+Swiftmarch7% of games · 28.4% win rate · 261 games
  3. Dusk and Dawn›Nashor's Tooth+Swiftmarch7% of games · 39.0% win rate · 259 games
  4. Nashor's Tooth›Dusk and Dawn›Rabadon's Deathcap+Swiftmarch6% of games · 60.4% win rate · 240 games
  5. Dusk and Dawn›Nashor's Tooth›Rabadon's Deathcap+Swiftmarch3% of games · 57.0% win rate · 128 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Kayle against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Kayle's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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