Talk:Kayle/@comment-25447003-20150519043657/@comment-25447003-20150521173132

What I've done is listing some points to show that the secondary tag "support" is a poor excuse for overnerfed Kayle. I'll try to explain more now.

Ashe has "support" tag as well, and she still has decent damage. And just recently Ashe was just buffed in both terms of damage and utilities.

Kayle has a heal 15s CD, but Nidalee has a heal 12s CD and that heal even buffs AS up to 60%. But Nidalee has 1500-range poke (it's damage is quite high for a "poke"), better mobility (gap-closers to escape and to stick+deal dmg), good scale ratio (bursty dmg), lower CD (and even has "reset" mechanism). She just shares a weakness with Kayle is mana-hungry, but since she already has low CD she just get 1 mana item is enough, whilst Kayle need CDR item to be effective (and still lackluster in mana and dmg).

Her primary tag is "fighter", but her damage was nerfed so hard that she could not live up to that tag. This is not only from my playing (hundreds of games) of Kayle, but also you can check by actual numbers from statistics with Riot API:

+ Damage Dealt (Champion.gg) : Kayle is #117 (top), and #115 (mid) in 188 listed

http://champion.gg/statistics/#?sortBy=general.totalDamageDealtToChampions&order=descend

(somewhere near Nasus, Shyvana, Malphite, Irelia who are "tanks" and usually build just 1 or 2 damage items).

+ KDA (LeagueOfGraphs.com) : Kayle is #75, in 124 listed.

http://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/by-kda

(the KDA at the moment I check is: 5.5  /  5.6  /  8.4 , not very appealing, and the numbers of kills is just 5.5 is mediocre - just check them yourself.)

Both of these stats makes her lore so shame because in the lore she is one of the strongest - if not the best. Whilst Jax's lore and XZ's lore are popular, Kayle's lore is actually more impressive: She has been fighting evils for THOUSANDS of years, and live to tell the tale.

I know the nerf bat has sent some champions to Forgotten Island as a vacation, like Olaf, Evelynn, Elise, Khazix, ... but all of those are buffed recently. Even the known "repeated nerf" champions like Yasuo, XinZhao, Jax, Vladimir, Mordekaiser, Ryze ... are buffed already. Why not Kayle ?