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Kayle has been always a good solo pick along with a support, though since her rework that she got her solo capabilities have been not stellar, support has also gotten through some tough times but somehow remains constantly strong. Instead of focusing on CC like a lot of other supports, Kayle has a huge peeling potential with a small resistances shred from Radiant Blast that can hit multiple people and slow them at the same time, and a dual heal from Celestial Blessing that gives movement speed as well, and don't forget her 2.5 seconds of invulnerability on an ally target from your ultimate Divine Judgment, this allows her to be of great assistance in fights.

You can think of Kayle as a reverse Taric actually, both have nice heals, allow one fighting team to have more resistances than the other would in normal circumstances, and both have invincibility ultimates. Though differ in some key points like Taric's heal is more spammable but with less power, his resistances situation makes your ally have more protection instead of the enemy having less, and his ultimate has AoE protection but its slower and more telegraphed. I think that these differences make Kayle come out on top.
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Celestial Blessing is one very strong healing ability, it doesn't look like it has huge numbers by itself but you heal two people, so you must realize that whatever the number may say, you actually heal double that. It also gives a nice boost of movement speed of 40% to both targets which can help hugely on fights or escapes. And very noteworthy is that the range of Celestial Blessing is a whopping 900, meaning you can outrange many of the other enchanter's heals and shields. Even Soraka the prime healer is about 1/4th too short of range

Radiant Blast is quite useful as well, it slows enemies for 50% for 2 seconds and reduces their resistances by 15% for 4 seconds, the slow can help immensely during skirmishes and while the resistances shred is not huge, it can also help a fair bit.

Both these abilities don't have much mana cost and in fact they share the same mana expenditure at each rank from level 1 to level 5, both going from 70 to 90 mana at level 1 to level 5. Though I still recommend to not spam them early on before you get your main core item, specially Celestial Blessing as the healing level 1 is not great, and even with only 70 mana you should avoid using it until lvl 2, Radiant Blast is a bit more worth to use it since that slow helps more than the heal at early levels.

Starfire Spellblade is not as useful as the rest of Kayle's kit especially support since you won't be buying damage, the poke isn't much at any moment that an enemy is over 50% HP, but it is ranged and is 0 mana cost so you can use it to proc World Atlas on an enemy from a safe range, or help you proc Demolish also from a distance. Also since it counts as autoattack reset it helps to charge up your passive for more movement speed or to kill a ward quickly, so Starfire Spellblade is less for helping an ally and more for helping yourself.


Finally Divine Judgment can singlehandedly win a fight if the circumstances are on point. Its 2.5 second of instantaneous invulnerability at the right moment can make the whole enemy team to waste their entire kit with no consequence to your team. If you compare it to Taric's ultimate Cosmic Radiance you'll notice that not only it is faster to use, but it has less CD and Mana cost after lvl 2. The only downgrade is that Kayle's ultimate is single target so you need to really know who to use it on, most people think the main gimmick of Kayle Support is this ability but it's not the main focus, it helps a ton but your job is to heal slow and shred.

You might be thinking that you should go regular ap for huge heals and such, but Celestial Blessing doesn't scale well with AP, only 25% and 8% on the movement speed, plus the resistance shred does not scale with AP either. More importantly is that going damage instead of utility leaves you way too squishy, you end up dying more and end up helping less in general.
Something noteworthy to think about is the idea that you trade your own power to add power to an ally, since your allies can make a great use of your entire kit it feels like you have added your own kit on an ally's kit while they still keep their own.

You might think these summoner spells are the dealbreaker but honestly Support Kayle doesn't make great use of many of them.

The big one is "Why no Flash?", this is due to the gameplay style this guide promotes: you are a tanky healer not a fighter or squishy assassin. The two main uses of Flash is to chase or escape, and this is not needed when playing Kayle Support. As you do not have the damage to kill enemies easily so flashing in makes no difference, and on the other hand if an enemy is chasing to kill you and you flash, if they believe they can kill you, they will flash as well, leaving you on the same position as if you hadn't flashed at all. Moreover, your tankiness means you can often survive these chases without needing to flash at all.

Now for the rest, for Ignite one can argue that the wounds can be achieved by buying a mere 800 gold item and the extra damage might be achieved by landing your Radiant Blast on an enemy champion. Ghost feels useless due to your natural movement speed boost from your passive and W. Barrier is selfish as you only help yourself.

Cleanse is a decent option if the enemy has a lot of crowd control, especially if they have Seraphine, as the presence of cleanse in your kit can often prevent her from ulting. However, this option is more situational compared to your regular Heal and Exhaust.

Heal and Exhaust are your main tools, as they provide significant protection and healing for your team while weakening the enemy, also your healing power also increases Heal's power. Rarely will you find a need for anything else.

Guardian If you play enough enchanters you will find that the main 2 runes to choose are Guardian and Aery, and while it is possible to go Aery with Kayle I don't recommend it. Guardian is the top notch of protective runes, that shield will save your team more times than you can imagine. On the other hand Aery requires you to be able to spam your heal way more than you are capable, with a 100 value shield that scales with AP as well you cannot give it a good use since you probably won't have much AP by the end. If you try to use it offensively you can probably get a nice use from your E, but its almost as if you are not going Aery for your E but rather focusing on using your E for Aery. And that little extra poke is still too little to give up the defensive power from Guardian. Guardian is why you're going Resolve. The best protective keystone for enchanters without much poke power. Plus you don't really get much of anything if you go Sorcery tree.

Demolish This is your best rune option strangely, since you can't use Shield Bash without a shield and while Font of Life sounds like it would make sense, I find that it heals for too little and with having so much CD it is not overly reliable. Plus you can only activate it with your Q, so you use 70 mana for 20 to 100 heal when you can instead just use 70 mana for 110 heal at lvl 1. You will find that you won't be able to use Demolish about half the time but the times you can it really shines, getting rid of plates early on with ease helps a lot. Demolish helps you take structures down faster and is more reliable than Font of Life.

Second Wind You will find yourself against 2 kind of supports, pokers and engagers. Second Wind helps you stay in lane despite all the poke you might receive, agaist the likes of Lux or Xerath this rune is VITAL. Bone Plating will help you survive against those that rather than heal and protect their ally, decide they want to fight you instead. Engagers such as Thresh or Pyke will keep fighting constantly and thus surviving the very early moments of the fight with mitigated damage to yourself might be crucial for you to catch up to what is happening and respond accordingly. While Conditioning sounds good for the tankier approach, I think that surviving that early game is more important than having a bit more of resistances later on. Second Wind helps grant nice survivability against poke matchups, while Bone Plating helps you survive engage or burst matchups. Pick accordingly.

Revitalize Revitalize is the default one, it makes your heal better. That's about it. You might think that Unflinching could be handy if you’re concerned about enemy burst damage being too much for Bone Plating to handle alone. However, opting for Unflinching means giving up that vital 5% healing power which is a bad idea.. Revitalize makes the healing better. You will pick it pretty much every single game.

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Magical Footwear Free boots with this one, not only is one less thing to think about but is also better than regular boots, 10+ms at all times is better than you might think. You don't really need boots early on either so you don't miss em, even less with your passive though that one is a bit more situational. Cash Back is very dependent on your build order and I find that a hassle to think about in the moment. And you cannot use Hexflash since you don't go Flash. Magical Footwear's boots are better than regular boots and give you 300 gold for free.

Cosmic Insight Cosmic Insight reduction of Summoner Spell is huge, makes you have an advantage earlier than the enemy after a fair fight. Active Item reduction is big as well if you go Redmption and Locket for the same reason. Cosmic Insight makes you able to use your items and summoner spells quicker after you already used them.

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Ability Haste, Scaling Health, and Flat Health 8 Ability haste at the start of the game is too good to pass. The scaling health is to better survive late game fights, flat health is good to survive the fragile early game. Tenacity is an option if you think you will need it. The adaptive force isn't useful on Kayle since you don't need that kind of power early, attack speed doesn't do much for you either, and you don't need more movement speed since you got plenty with your magical boots passive and W. Haste for heals, and Scaling with Flat HP to survive better at most points in the game. Tenacity if you think you wil need it.

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Many of the runes focus on enhancing utility and offers unique ways to gain advantages outside of pure combat stats. However while many of these runes may sound appealing on paper, only a few truly benefit Kayle's playstyle in practice.
Lets go analyze each one of these ok:



Cash Back is not necessarily bad on Kayle alone, but it is a rune that requires a lot of use until it is actually impactful. For maximum value the optimal strategy is to alter your build order so you buy your most expensive items first, which Kayle does not do. But regardless the main key factor is that it shares the rune slot with Magical Footwear, which simply outclasses it.



Triple Tonic main appeal for many of the champions that use it is the level up potion at lvl 9, but that is a mere third of the rune. The two thirds are rarely useful at all, specially on Kayle Support.

Elixir of Avarice does not work for your playstyle becase as a support you should mainly leave the wave management to your ally marksman, and Elixir of Force is not very useful since at the point when you get it you won't have any AP on you so it will instead give you AD which is not needed, and even if you did have AP your main ability Celestial Blessing does not scale very well with AP in the first place so it will be a negligible difference in healing power.

Elixir of Skill may sound extra nice on Kayle but your main power comes from your W which you will already have maxed out at this point, using it for your E sounds useless since that ability is pure fighting power. And thus you are left only with Radiant Blast, which means the only advantage you get from this rune is an extra 6% slow at lvl 9. Not enough to pick it over other options.


Time Warp Tonic was at one point one of the main forces for Support Kayle allowing you even more surprise healing power to survive dives and fights during lane phase, but it has since been nerfed over and over again leaving it in a non great position.

The last nail in the coffin was that it was put in the same rune slot as Biscuit Delivery so you can't use both of them, therefore killing this rune entirely.


Biscuit Delivery was also the bread and butter of Support Kayle since it used to give max mana on top of the strong healing for when you are low on HP, but the last changes to the rune has left it in a less powerful state. The healing is good but without Time Warp Tonic it feels less impactful, the change from it adding max mana to max HP feels not as important with the current build. And even if it did gave max mana still, due to the latest patch for Kayle you no longer have mana issues.

Lastly and not as important, the ability to sell this biscuit was always nice if you never had a good opportunity to use it in lane but since its sell value has been reduced to a mere 5 gold, selling it now feels like a total waste and you are feeling like you should just stick with it for a little longer just to find a better moment to use it well. And that moment might never come.
In short, the rune used to be great but has been nerfed so many times that is not worth it anymore.



Jack of all Trades sounds enticing, for every different stat that your items give you get 1 extra AH, at 5 and 10 stacks you gain extra adaptive power. Sounds exactly like what Kayle Support needs, however I find that the rune in general is not very good as it practically forces you to get a disperse build filled with stats that you might not want or need for the rune to be of any good use. Though I will admit that the extra 1 AH for every item without feels nice, it is just not enough to justify it over Cosmic Insight.




This rune initially looks very tempting for lower CD for your ultimate Divine Judgment, however relying on your ultimate alone is not a good idea since you trade a lot of extra power from the rest of your kit, and the lower CD is not enough to make a great impact considering that if you happen to die after using your ultimate, by the time you revive and get back to the where the fighting is happening, your ultimate should be about up and running again regardless of the extra ultimate AH that this rune gives to you.

And lastly, you don't really gain much from any other rune in this tree so it really is a big waste honestly.
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To play Support Kayle efficiently you need to experience it many times, figure out what items work with what comp, figure out how much can you survive each enemy, figure out if your team as a whole is worth focusing your help on or only your ally marksman. There are many little tricks and synergies from your kit and the items you choose, so experiment around.

But what do you DO?

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In the early game, your goals are to

• Survive first and foremost
  
• Try to get poked on purpose so the enemy wastes mana pointlessly
  
• Use Celestial Blessing when you both have low health
  

Survive: Kayle Support is too squishy before your first back, try not to get caught or poked too much that enemy can then kill you quickly. That can lead to an unfortunate snowball from the enemy team, just get in there enough and only enough. You don't have the damage to keep poking them with E or the mana regen to do constant small trades with Q, so don't waste your resources unless you have a good reason.

Don't just stay back the entire time however: You still want to be of use despite your fragility, be it active utility or just with the threat of being there. You don't want to stay under tower and heal at every opportunity, that will only lead you to your defeat.

Bait the enemy to focus you: As with your mana, your health is also a resource, if you don't see the bar filling up then you are not using it correctly. What you want during lane phase is for the enemy to attack you and waste their resources on you, then back off for a while to recover. You recover your health faster than they recover mana in most cases, so it's not much of an issue.

Get the most use from your heal: Celestial Blessing is a dual healing, that means that if you use it when only one target needs the healing you are wasting half of its potential. Only heal when you both need it, and a little surprise, you already started setting this up. Once the enemy uses their poke on you and you fall back, they are only in range to attack your ally marksman, wasting even more resources but with even less consequence as they are attacking a full health target. I like to heal only when we both are below 50% health for maximum efficiency, not that the % health matters really.

Bait even more: Kayle Support has a misleading amount of heal that the enemy team constantly underestimates, they will constantly think they can all-in and kill you at many points of the game. How wrong they are. If you are brave enough you can go in and receive some damage, then lead them to your team or tower and watch them die while you survive all of it, with your Celestial Blessing, your Health Potion and your Heal, if you are lucky also your ally marksman's Heal, surviving any kind of dive will be a piece of cake.


What you really want in this phase of the game is survive, don't mind the constant poke that is a good thing, you will end up with more mana and health eventually. You can also try to bait them into trying to kill you only to then die themselves due to underestimating how much you can survive. But don't overestimate how much you can survive either, is a lot but not a ton.

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As the laning phase ends, so does your role as a single target healer.

• Group with the team
  
• Use Celestial Blessing to speed allies to locations
  
• Save up your Radiant Blast more than your Celestial Blessing
  
• Peel off your squishier teammates
  
• Try to time up your Divine Judgement so you can make the enemy waste the most resources
  

Damage is low priority: At this point you lose most of your damage, so try not to focus on that. However since you are tanky that doesn't mean you can't do any, your durability allows you to survive the damage they throw back at you, so use that to keep applying pressure and chip away at them without worrying too much about getting punished.

Don't be stingy with your abilities: At this point with your core item finished, you should have enough mana regen to constantly spam your heal and slow with little consquence. Try to keep your team near full health before fights, also a little trick that I like doing is using Celestial Blessing not for the heal, but rather for the movement speed to get my allies faster to an objective for example.

Stick with your allies: Your utility range is huge, your fighting range not so much, so during fights you should stay an average distance from everyone, close enough to help but not close enough to get hit easily. As opposed to laning phase where you wanted to receive damage to create an advantageous situation, now you want to react to their attempts to kill your team.

Use your items quickly: If you have Redemption or Locket you might want to use them when an enemy champion goes in before the rest of his team can catch up, since by the time they do catch up your team might be in a dire situation and thus protect them from a huge portion of the danger. Though sometimes it is wise to save up redemption for after a fight is over and you are pushing into their towers to heal the minions as well and get more objectives.

Save your Divine Judgement for just the right moment: Divine Judgment will save one single person for 2.5 seconds so it is important to know when the enemy will over extend on that singular person to kill them fast. If you time it right you can waste many ultimates and summoner spells from the enemy with only a singular cost to your team. It is not only important to know when to use it, but also on who. You should focus your attention on the ally who has the most power for the teamfight rather than just your marksman in every fight.


In this phase you want to keep your team healthy, go around the map helping any teammates that need it, redemption allows this from half the map away and moonstone allows you to heal more people at a time. Save your teammates with Divine Judgement in teamfights and win em over. If you are caught you have an opportunity to survive the punishment the enemy sends your way and lead them to a bad situation where your team has the advantage, don't worry much if you die as you will trade 1 life for possibly 3 or more, they WILL focus you as they only see a squishy out of position Kayle.

Here's a little trick: Locket has a decaying shield but moonstone extra shield does not decay, you can also proc up to 4 extra non-decaying little shields on top of each other if every ally is in range of each other.

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Your roles from mid-game remain, but as your items and AH increase and your mana costs decrease, so too does your impact

• In fights, you should basically never stop casting your spells
  
• Nothing else to discuss
  
• Just do your usual things
  
• That's how you win the game
  

Manipulate Movement Speed: With the relative lowest mana cost at any point in the game you can start spamming Celestial Blessing just for the movement speed, healing becomes kind of a secondary effect. But that's not saying you don't heal a respectable amount anymore, just that you are no longer limited to healing first.

Max level is not the goal:Kayle Support is not a scaling champion, once you get lvl 13 and have your Q at max level you only have one more power-up, at level 16 your passive is maxed out which means you move faster at all times and your ultimate lowers its mana cost to 0. Its a fine upgrade but reaching this point is not vital at all, you can absolutely be just as relevant with a couple levels lower.

For a long time now I have been playing Kayle Support on my own, guided only by a few individuals who have more experience than me, and I guess I wanted to share the word of this fantastic build. Even better now that this last patch lowered W's mana cost a huge ton and it opened so many possibilities, like starting to use it for movement speed rather than healing, it was never possible before but now there is more leniency for it. This single change absolutely broke Kayle in my opinion.


I have tried to share it with little effort before, like firsthanded experience by playing with random people, maybe they'll look at it and think of giving it a go some day. Or sharing some of my clips with some league streamers, this guy absolutely loves it when I show it to him. This other streamer also got to experience the ridiculous heal and survival ability that Kayle has, but this clip is not from my own gameplay.


I can't write, i'm not a writer I can barely speak properly, but I decided to finally give it a go with writting a mobafire guide since the last patch arrived, so here it is, got some help from a teacher and a friend who showed me how to have a proper organization and this is the result.

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