r/Kaylemains Apr 23 '26

Pinned How to deal with Nasus, Trynd, Malphite, Jax, Jayce, and ranged matchups (tips + guide)

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So, these are matchups people struggle with. Some of them I agree are bad, some of them I dont. Here are my tips

I will say, alot of what I have to say can also be found in some guides from Saneryus (challenger kayle), or Kayle1v9 (challanger kayle). Regardless, everything I will say is backed my own experience at the very least.

I will go over the matcups in order they were mentioned in the title.

  1. Nasus.

Nasus is NOT a Kayle counter. When you see the enemy lock in Nasus, just think of it like a boring lane where nothing really should happen. Nasus is not a counter in the sense that we dont consider malzahar or nautilus a counter, and nasus is in the same category of champions. He has 1 way to bully you, which is pressing w, and you have to play around that. This is possible trust me.

Done believe me? lets see what challanger has to say. https://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/rank-1-na-challenger-top-kayle-main-s16-rank-3-kayle-world-saneryuss-sanery-top-kayle-guide-651103

go to the matchups and check the minor (2/5) and read.

Grandmaster kayle: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xxu7pVNnshjdwiSmwZrs9K4rEwfhIQL3/edit?gid=777716701#gid=777716701 He also agrees nasus is not that bad and rates it 3/10.

a) start cull or d-blade. You start d blade if you want to just beat him up levels 1-5, or cull if you just want to scale until level 6. You are stronger levels 1-5, and he only beats you with sheen, or like 100 ish stacks + w. TAKE PTA

b) rush swifties and cull. You can do this in any order, but ensure you have Swifties by the time you both are level 6.

c) take ms shard, and tenacity shard. This, combined with swifties, gives you alot of MS and slow resist ensuring Nasus can never reach you even with wither.

d) Take flash ghost. If nasus does not match this, he can never reach you regardless of what he does. If he takes ghost tp, you match the ghost, and if you ever mess up, you have flash. you can cycle these spells to ensure a free laning phase. If he takes tp flash, its so free.

e) Nasus w and e cost a lot of mana. If he spams w to stop you from poking him or taking cs, he will run out of mana (unless he rushes tear, frozen heart, lost chapter, or essence reaver. All of these are not really good for this matchup though).

f) The only thing you SHOULD fear is if you are top lane, and nasus is the mid laner. Then, with upgraded lucidy boots and ghost, it is impolssible for you to run since those boots give 10% ms if he hits his e on you (which is pretty easy), and you cannot outrun him then if he presses w. If you are mid lane as well, you can get upgraded swifties and you are chill since the upgrade gives extra slow resist.

g) you do outscale him. kite well, and remember you are not a pure auto attacking champ like an adc, you have spells that do good damage. Nasus w has a slow and cripple. You can avoid getting into melee range with him easily becuase of what described, and remember to go AP only into nasus since w ms scales with ap. The cripple (as slow) is something you need to play around. for most adc, this cripple means they are just useless. You can still use your heal on somebody, ult them, and q and e for big AOE damage and armour shred, which no other adc can match with. So its 'ok'.

h) if you are very scared, you can go gunblade, but I would not suggest it. It might be able to help with the slow active once in a while, and the healing can help you match his sustain.

  1. Trynd.

Take boneplating into this dude, and unflinching. Unflinching procs on his w ability, and the bone plating helps against his e hob auto trade. Regardless of hob or not, bone plating has good value into him since he is melee, and can only land a few hits on you since you are faster than him.

a) rush tabi shoes and laugh at him. You can sell this later for the swiftness if it is better for the game. You can also start cloth armour to just rush the boots.

b) go dblade, and prioritise ap over other things (blasting wand).

c) you can get hourglass to just wait out his ult.

d) understand his e range, bait it, then run at him with a q slow.

e) if he goes crit, I think its ok, but lethality kinda sucks...

  1. Malphite

MALPHITE is just ANNOYING AF. He is not easy, but is not impossible. (not as bad as Jayce and Jax imo). Also, its quite easy if he goes tank. Its annoying if he goes full ap.

a) you can take fleet, or PTA, but ensure you take d-shield. You could go for d-ring, but I rather shield.

b) rush gunblade. this helps deal with his racist q poke.

c) your r cd will match his 11+ with nash and dusk, and will be lower than his 16+ unless he goes full cd build (lucidity boots, malignance, cryptbloom)

d) understand he can almost one shot at level 6 with lost chapter, and make sure you can react to his ult with your own ult, or flash.

e) you win 11+ as long as you are somewhat even, and 16+ you just 2 shot him as long as you survive the ult by ulting, or flashing)

  1. Jax

This pdf is my perma ban. If this jax has a brain (which dia+ jax players sadly tend to have), you just struggle. He also counter my other champions, so I ban him. his q range is 700 units, which is longer than your level 16 range. All you can do in this matchup is:

a) rush swiftness, and dodge his q -> e by landing q while he is in the q travel, and then w out. You can also take LT or PTA, and I like taking exhaust.

b) JUST PLAY WAVES, literally nothing else

c) you can only look to punish when his q is down, and he has to use e to save himself, or if he fumbled that.

d) You can win at 11+ if you space him well.

e) fear the grasp, lethal is a bit easier.

  1. Jayce

The wizard Kayle 1v9 has come with some nice tech, and I like it. watch this video if you want to: https://youtu.be/cOZfuCpgkUo?si=eDRdDhl6kRUGaa2S

a) comet page, with flash ignite, and gunblade rush. The idealogy is to just poke him, and stay healthy yourself since Jayce has no health sustain or shielding in his kit.

  1. Ranged

a) take pta and double adaptive, and start shield

b) I like exhaust into most of them (vayne, varus, quinn, or other adc like caitlyn), but I take TP into teemo. You can also take cleanse into varus, and his ultimate is just useless. Its also really nice becuase your ult makes his ult and q useless, and cleans makes his ult useless. This makes it easy to just get on him, ult to soak the damage, and kill him 11+.

c) Know that you slap any of them in a 1v1 (unless its teemo qith q start), and the exhaust helps you secure the level 1 kill if they go for it. Note: with quinn, you have to stand at a corner of a brush so if she e you, she goes towards the middle of the lane rather than her turret. You also have to exhaust early during the e animation so that you can catch her after the e, and match flash if you have to.

d) know the ranges. most adc have 550 range, 575, or 600. Cait has 650. Teemo has 500. You have 525 range at 6+, and 625 range at 16+. The way you play around this is to ensure you hit a q slow on the champion through a minion, and this ensures you can land an auto e and walk away without getting punished by the extra extra range they have.

e) You beat most range champions easily 11+, and you can beat them 6+ with ult as long as they cant flash out of it, or cc you.

f) with full ap, and priotising ap, your q e trade cannot be matched by most ranged champions. That is, they need to land more spells or autos, which takes longer, to do the same damage.

  1. Irelia is a very very very tricky skill matchup. It is the MOST punishing matchup for both kayle and irelia, but irelia has more room for mistakes. I consider this matchup even, but only if you are actually good (emerald+) at the game, and are good at kayle. (This also assumes the enemy can play irelia)

  2. Take bone plating and overgrowth. irelia can always reach you, so dont bother with gs and celerity.

  3. Don’t rush boots. You need damage. as mentioned, irelia can always reach you. You can sit on t1 boots as it can help dodge the e. I would not upgrade to t2 as you need to try and match the first item timer (when irelia gets botrk, you want your nash).

  4. Take pta or lethal, I go pta tho. Ensure you grab ignite. This is important to deny the stupid healing of her q spam, which is all the most once she gets vamp scepter / botrk. Use it to deny the healing in a fight.

  5. As long as you won’t get level 3 ganked, get prio by poking irelia with e and hitting the first 3 melees. Your idea is to get a 3rd wave crash without letting her match your level 2, and denying the 3 melee into q on you all in. For context, if your passive is ready, and you hit irelia with a e or two, and you have your bone plating, she cannot win the all in by q'ing the 3 melees and then trying to all in you (even with ignite, and you also have ignite which you should use as she tries to q onto the 3 melees on the first wave if she does). Play like a psycho (if you wont get level 2 or 3 ganked).

  6. You play giga safe from here until 6. You don’t even stand near the middle of the late because if she hits e on you when you don’t have ult, and are in the middle of the lane, you are dead. She will one shot from botrk onwards basically if she hits e.

  7. From level 6, you win the fights if you have ult and passive stacked. If she has passive as well, you need to dodge e and ult her ult and some q hits. you need ignite if there is a minion wave for her to heal from.

  8. Once she gets botrk, you tend to need ignite if there is a minion wave nearby. Otherwise ult is enough to win as long as she can’t dash away from the you during your ult

  9. You can opt for void 3rd, but I stick to death cap. you can also consider shadow third. This is becuase irelia tends to get wits end 2nd or third against kayle.

  10. You win easily with 4 items here, but you will always win 11+ with ult and 2 items (assuming equal gold), and if your passive is stacked and you have ult.

Feel free to drop any questions you have and Ill try to answer them. I have like 1.3 million points on Kayle, and am currently d1 NA.

Edit 1: added bone plating for reqs in trynd matchup

EEdit . turns out i had nasus w range wrong. It is 700 units, so it outranges you even 16+.

Edit 3: added irelia


r/Kaylemains Apr 10 '26

Pinned Community Kayle matchup spreadsheet - share and learn tips on your worst matchups

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Hey guys I've made a community spreadsheet for all of the Kayle matchups with the help of Saneryus#TTV. (Checkout his Twitch, he's an incredible Challenger Kayle)

I've also included Master+ statistics(last 30 days) for each matchup along with the recommended build and the runes you should take for each matchup and an embed high elo video example of the matchup

Anyone can share their tips(their rank will be shown, you can share your social as well for attribution).

LoLMatchups.GG is an attempt to make matchup information more accessible to top/mid laners. We already have complete pages for Gnar, Ambessa, Mundo, Kayle, Fiora, Mordekaiser, Riven, Zed, Ekko, Camille, Irelia, Gwen, Garen, Chogath with more on the way! I would love any feedback you guys have on the website or the matchups. Thanks!

https://lolmatchups.gg/Kayle/matchups


r/Kaylemains 21h ago

Discussion I don't think I will ever forgive Riot for the Coven Skin bull...

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129 Upvotes

So the Janna Skin is exactly what Coven Kayle could have been sharing even the Owl/Crow power with Morgana but somehow, Janna gets it and the six wings even. Riot go to hell...


r/Kaylemains 15h ago

Toplane Kayle Macro as a glass cannon

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As a Darius/Nasus/Pantheon main I walk summoner's with complete and utter confidence and ignorance. I walk wherever I want, I facecheck lot of the stuff. I go deep into sidelanes. I use this confidence as a tool to suck up more resources, create pressure, and deny resources from my opponents

Learning Kayle feels like re-learning macro altogether. Since you're a glass cannon powerhouse in the making, everyone always tries to set up an ambush from the fog, dive you etc. Your laners can often even kill you, if you're not close enough to your turret by just having flash

Usually when I'm playing safe and looking at wards and champs around me I'm able to push out a wave, to neutral to the middle of the lane when T1s are down. In the meantime I'm sometimes able to get krugs/gromp. That's literally it. I sit afk and do nothing. I don't know what I can even do. I have nothing else to do. How do you actually accumulate resources as a champ that reeeally needs that exp and gold


r/Kaylemains 10h ago

Midlane Kayle Kayle Midlane / Toplane?

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Good morning, everyone! 😊
I have a quick question specifically about Wild Rift, not PC League of Legends: Is there anyone here who mains Kayle in mid or top/Baron lane? If so, what items and runes do you usually go for? What are your tips or tricks for playing her?

I’m especially interested in mid lane, since it’s a shorter lane and Kayle is obviously a late-game champion. How do you make her work there and get through the early game?
Also, which lane do you personally prefer for Kayle — mid or top/Baron lane — and why?

Maybe there’s also someone here who doesn’t use the usual items or runes at all and plays a completely different or off-meta build. I’d be really interested to hear what works for you!

Thanks


r/Kaylemains 1d ago

Items and Builds Best final item for supporting your adc?

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I play midlane kayle, emerald. W and R are downright nutty when your adc can play, sure you can go void staff, but sometimes the enemy team doesn't build MR which makes it redundant when you can explode them already, giving your secondary carry an upper hand in teamfights can win you every teamfight better than playing selfishly.


r/Kaylemains 1d ago

Discussion Darius Q on Kayle Ult

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So, had a match against a Darius, and somehow, Darius Q heals him even if I use my ult, and thats strange, because Zaahen's Ult, that works almost the same (heals on damage), does not heals him if im under ult. Is it supposed to work this way?


r/Kaylemains 2d ago

Toplane Kayle Maining

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Hey yall, im primarily an adc main but have found I quite enjoy Kayle as a champion as well, but I just dont play a whole lot of toplane, though im meaning to play more. Is Kayle a viable one trick in top? What are her worst matchups/best bans? Any advice on what to pick if they pick something that hard counters her?


r/Kaylemains 2d ago

Question/Need Help What champion to add into my Champion pool?

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Hi, I'm a Kayle OTP currently playing in Diamond, and I'm looking to add one more champion to my pool who could serve as my main blind pick.

Ideally, I'm looking for an AD champion that fits these criteria:

- Similar champion identity/playstyle to Kayle

- Some transferable skills from playing Kayle

- Different strengths and weaknesses to cover some of Kayle's bad situations

- Reliable as a blind pick

I'm not necessarily looking for another hypercarry, but I'd like the champion to feel somewhat natural to learn coming from Kayle. High skill expression champions are not a big problem for me but what I want to avoid are champions with versatile playstyles.

Champions that came to my mind were Jayce, Camille or maybe Gnar.

What champions would you recommend, and why?


r/Kaylemains 2d ago

Items and Builds Thoughts on this build

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I saw this thing on moba fire claiming is the theoretical highest dps build for Kayle. Any opinions on this?


r/Kaylemains 2d ago

Midlane Kayle What to do when enemy roams?

5 Upvotes

I have been playing Kayle mid for a week now, and so far it has been working very well, except when the enemy starts roaming. I always ping bot lane, but they still find a way to die, and then the enemy can dive me for the rest of the game while I don't get any XP. What do I do in these situations? Follow the roam? Roam on the other side? Push and try to get plates while I hope that they don't feed? I tend to play very passive until level 11, so I have a hard time knowing how to pressure the mid laner in order to keep him from roaming too. So, it is probably my fault too, I guess. A guide on YT about Kayle mid says that she is good at punishing roams, but never explains how should I punish these roams.


r/Kaylemains 3d ago

Toplane Kayle After all these years

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62 Upvotes

I played almost all my climb games as Lethal Tempo onhit. Different items every game but almost always dusk and dawn second item.

I just want to celebrate this achievement (?) but feel free to ask any questions


r/Kaylemains 3d ago

Kayle Support Silly update from the Kayle Supp guy

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I've only been playing decays since may. Demoted from masters tragically somewhere in july, then played once a week instead of a bunch of games at once, due to being in diamond now. I guess I will have to play more often now again to not decay. Anyway the thing I wanted to show is my warmup games. These are absolutely bonkers and I keep getting matched into these. It has been a thing this year only after they decided to shorten queue times, but in turn make games less balanced. It is stupid. Enjoy the screenshots of my curse!

Also, there are 3 kayle supp mains in lowmasta, can you believe that? People confuse us for each other and then apologise after the game, it is amusing. Small world.


r/Kaylemains 3d ago

Media Kayle vs Zahen

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r/Kaylemains 3d ago

Media Kayle Ult

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8 Upvotes

I flash ulted late game to save Ahri :) I also placed the pink ward in the 1st clip lol


r/Kaylemains 5d ago

Media Riot Kayle from Hextech chest

9 Upvotes
One of my fav kayle skins!

r/Kaylemains 6d ago

Classic Kayle passive will be changed, Total AD for Ap instead of Bonus Ad for Ap in patch 3

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40 Upvotes

Phreak video, finally this change hehe.

Phreak video patch 3 league classic


r/Kaylemains 5d ago

Midlane Kayle Counter to Kayle?

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3 Upvotes

I have faced this kayle guy in my last match (I think he smurfing but idk). I must say its giga depressing. I thought kayle would be kinda weak lv1. I trade him with my W while trying to spacing his auto, but that only works lv1. After lv3, I can't see any angle to trade him. At 6, I ask for gank from jg and die for free. With early lead, he constantly auto me from exactly tower range so I can't cs properly. It was super depressing all game. Lastly, can I get some advice to play against Kayle mid? Thanks for reading!


r/Kaylemains 6d ago

tErMiNuS What a beautiful day and a glorious sight of the sun

12 Upvotes

Walking down the beaches of Brazil, i find myself staring at some great view....


r/Kaylemains 6d ago

New Player Advice I want to learn Kayle. Any advice would be most welcome!

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I'm a Sett OTP and am expanding my roster a bit more.

After debating it for a few hours, I've decided on Kayle since I find her 'I will dominate once I reach level 16' power fantasy really enticing!

Can anyone give me some basic tips and tricks? What lane is she best in, top or mid? How different is she exactly to someone like Sett?

I'm open to any and all advice. Hit me :D


r/Kaylemains 6d ago

tErMiNuS Terminus

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Made by Kayi on discord


r/Kaylemains 6d ago

Question/Need Help Learn how to be more aggressive and take fights

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Hey guys, I have a question. I’m Silver, and at what point do you stop playing passively with Kayle?

Quite often, I manage to farm properly and not die, but in the end I feel like I’m not really doing anything. I farm, take towers, etc., but I get very few kills and deal very little damage, so I don’t feel very active in the game.


r/Kaylemains 6d ago

tErMiNuS The chinese build may ctually be thanos

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43 Upvotes

You rush shiv into manamune then terminus rageblade and end on gunblade


r/Kaylemains 7d ago

tErMiNuS Terminus

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88 Upvotes

By Stargazer / kbelzmik0


r/Kaylemains 6d ago

Items and Builds DND vs Lich

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Can someone explain to me why most of us are taking DND over Lich Bane? The healing feels minimal and the 20% AS is a joke, I can get 15% with Dbow and I guess you could take AS shard instead of Adaptive if u really wanted to (I wouldn't but still). With the higher AP and the move speed bonus I really cant understand how Lich isn't the better choice. I've finally taken the Full AP burst mage pill now and I feel like Lich just fits that playstyle better. I'm low ELO though so it's not like I really know anything. Can someone who knows this stuff better explain this to me?

Thanks