Pros and Cons of Kayle as a Carry

Pros

-Can easily take down minions waves in late game
-Still supports and saves people
-Damages all Enemies in a gank
-Not always the main focus
-Has a Slow

Cons

-Heal is not worth using :(
-Can be fairly Squishy
-Very slow early game
-hard to solo/hold a lane early game

I use runes to maximize damage at level one, because Kayles start is slow its important to get first blood and as many kills as you can before other champs overtake you.


Greater Mark of Magic Penetration: Mpen is Pretty important seeing as her attacks are magic, it helps alot in early game to boost your damage output

Greater Seal of Ability Power: Nothing wrong with getting a bit of extra damage in this is great for getting some nice damage at level one and with your mpen runes in should be enough to scare anyone away

Greater Glyph of Cooldown Reduction: Cooldown reduction is important for achieving 40% cooldown, this gives 6% when combined with the 9% from masteries you get 15% and after getting nashors tooth that takes you up to 40$

Greater Quintessence of Ability Power: i like the AP given by these quints really turns reckoning into a level one nuke, If you wanted to you can swap the AP quints for HP quints as her starting health is pretty **** but if you play it right you shouldn't need them

The goal of our masteries are to boost out early game and support our items, im not going to list them all as it is a fairly standar 9/0/21 however i will talk a little bit about the more important ones and why.

Sorcery Gives us the all important 3%

Itelligence Gives us the even more important 6%

theese combined with runes give us 15% reduction, this is the most important masteries we have.

Archaic Knowledge very powerful early game, takes of a decent chunk of our enemys magic res combine this with voidstaff and thats half of an enemys resist gone.

Haste / Blink of an Eye combined with Presence of the Master this can give you the edge other summoners with the same spells, flash is almost a must just because nearly everyone has it

Grab a Doran's Ring and head to your lane i like to be in a duo lane, i find i lane well with Morgana (if shes not mid) but any one with good damage output early will do. The Doran's Ring helps reckoning do some great damage even at level one and can scare people away pretty quickly, combine this with a few Auto Attacks and Ignite and you got yourself first blood or forcing them yo use flash.

Recall when you need to but i wouldn't recommend it you need to be Last Hitting everything Kayle is very item Dependant and you want to get some good AS early if you want to survive mid game once you got 1k plus recall and its time to get our first item.

Boots: An obvious one no explanation needed.

From this we can go to various types of boot, look below for boot choices

If you have the Gold or would prefer to postpone getting tier 2 boots grab a Blasting Wand its good for early game damage and builds into later items.

Return back to your lane and continue playing, by now you should be able to Spam Righteous Fury to take down minions be careful not to over extend though, engagement wise you rely on your teammate to call the shots, wait for then to Initiate but be sure not to be too far behind Throw Reckoning at your enemies to slow them down and follow up with Righteous Fury at this point i find i don't have the attack speed to finish people off or if i do it is very close to their tower so make sure you have Flash Intervention or at least an Exhaust

- Combined with divine blessing this can help you escape and chase other champions with ease

- Extremely useful against enemy teams with high CC and Magic abilitys

- One of my more favourite boots very good for increasing your attack speed early game

- Great for the mpen to get through most champs early game magic resist

During early - mid game you should now be starting to think about building your next item well in my eyes you've got two choices:

Guinsoo's Rageblade: This item is great for building up your early game Attack speed, it really increases your farming ability, damage output with the added addition of both AP and AD.
I Generally get this if im underfed its not that expensive and can improve the amount of gold you receive through Farm and Kills

Nashor's Tooth: This Item is what you get if your doing much better for kills, its one of Kayles core items giving important attack speed and Ability Power, The mp5 means you can now sustain Righteous Fury and the Cooldown means you can keep it up indefinitely.

Which ever you choose to get return back to your lane and whenever you recall or have to gold build the item that you didn't get your game play dosn't change much, the team should be more active with each other and you should be right there to support, use Intervention and Divine Blessing if you need to, throwing out Reckoning to create successful ganks.

After those two items its time to make another choice.

Frozen Mallet / Rylai's Crystal Scepter: At the moment i am unsure which item would be better, Try both out and give me your ideas, personally Rylai's Crystal Scepter is much more powerful but with less added health. i would suggest you make the choice between health or damage however whatever you choose you will get the same passive and with you attack speed you wuill be getting plenty of slows off combined with Reckoning you can bring them to a stop.

Malady: Another one of Kayle's core items, this gives amazing attack speed and AP, with it you are now unstoppable! If you dont get it straight away you will need it soon this item is the beginning of Kayle's Carrying ability .

Banshee's Veil: A pretty standard item but can make a massive difference, Picking up Banshee's Veil Straight away isnt really necessary unless they have annoying casters with ranged cc like Lux Ryze and Morgana, Instead all you need is too pick up Negatron Cloak this can make a massive difference against a AP heavy team.


After picking up Malady you can proceed to build a defensive item if you have not already, from now on items are pretty much situational ill list these items below but first a quick recap on how you should be playing during late game.

Reckoning Doing Damage, Doing More Damage and Slowing them down

Righteous Fury Doing the main core of damage, Attack Speed will be pretty high from now on and you should be shredding people quickly

Intervention Using this to Save your Self others or to Tower Drive

Okay So now we have the basics of what Kayle's build is, She is a very item Dependant champion and so its important to get whats right for her.

Thanks for reading my first guide and i hope it was good enough and easy to read :)
Don,t hesitate to contact me if you think i could improve a certain section of the guide or have missed anything out, if you have any ideas on gameplay and item build make a note in the chat and ill add in into the guide

26/10/2011 - changed comments about solo laning and made several spelling changed, Updated runes, boots and masteries. added deathcap to items. Fixed spelling and coding errors.