Talk:Kayle/@comment-94.65.45.37-20120831062616/@comment-2124153-20120903224230

You are not more important than your team.

Hybrid Kayle doesn't just have a "better earlygame". She's better early, for transition/midgame, and for utility at all stages. Top lane is particularly snowbally: if you can get an advantage, you should consider taking it. Pulling the enemy jungler and/or mid out of their roaming comfort zone will help the rest of your team considerably, and the harder you can smash your lane opponent the easier that becomes. This is especially true if you can get an early tower, and roam yourself.

AD Kayle can never match the AOE damage of hybrid. The base +60 and the 20% of natural AD is the same, but AP is twice as effective as AD, for half the price. A basic Rageblade adds about +44 damage to the splash when stacked, for 2235g. You would need a +220 AD item to match that figure. Not only does such an item not exist, but it would cost over 8000g even if it did.

Kayle's heal with +80 HP is only what you get with a basic Rageblade/Nashor's core with either a WotA or a Gunblade. Three items. If we spot her the full build that you're no doubt giving to the AD Kayle, it gets better. That being said, with a 9s cooldown heal at ~320 health, this helps considerably with sustaining pushes and countering poke damage in the teamfight phase. Hybrid is healing 33% more, at a ~40% faster rate. This amounts to double the healing over time in a three minute span, give or take.

Basically, the idea of hybrid Kayle is to crush your lane harder than is possible for AD, and leverage that advantage for your team by roaming and shoving other lanes. The best pairing for hybrid Kayle is a hypercarry like Kog or Vayne, who have BAD earlygames but AMAZING lategames. Why? Because Kayle is so dominant top lane, that she frees up HER jungler and mid, while tying up the ENEMY jungle and mid, relieving a lot of pressure from bottom lane. Top lane is not an island, even though people frequently consider it to be so.

Now, is this the best combo when you have a champion like Graves or Caitlyn bot? Or when your team overall has bad lategame damage? Probably not. But if you don't consider the overall picture, you didn't understand the question.