Talk:Kayle/@comment-217.211.77.32-20121219182837/@comment-2124153-20121219223403

It's true that ranking Q is better for ganks than ranking E (you need five autoattacks to tie damage, and Q pulls ahead if you get a second one off); however, E is MUCH better for clearing the jungle, since the cost never goes up and the AOE gets significantly better at higher ranks. You will fall behind in farm without a good clear speed, unless you are snowballing hard (which you can't count on every game).

You're compensating for your clear speed and sustain by getting a Wriggles, but since Wriggles does little for your lategame (excess Armor, dubious synergy with lifesteal due to going hybrid, inefficient source of AD), it's an albatross around your neck that doesn't even help with your ganks. This an example of one inefficient decision causing another one to cover the the first mistake.

Rushing a Gunblade is a bad idea because you are completely starved of AS. You're not using AS quints, you're not maxing Fury, you don't use berserker's, green elixir is gone... you are building an item that wants autoattacks, but you have nothing to speed them up in the first place. A build with those things, is turning Kayle into an alpha-hit burster, which is a role she's not really very good at. If someone's face doesn't melt off instantly, you are in a bad position, worse off than an AS/AP Kayle by far.

I run 0/9/21 in the jungle, start Machete/Flask (because of Greed), and I gank at level 2 after the first buff mob dies. I don't run AP blues, because scaling MR is needed for late game, and clears are good enough. Core is zerker's, Nashor's, and maybe a Rageblade, but on a jungler's salary the game is usually over before going any further than that. Sometimes I don't even upgrade the Machete, it depends on whether my AP mid needs blue buff or not.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, but you need to make sure that your build fits together and that you don't have too many things that don't have synergy. Junglers don't make enough money to just throw a bunch of rando things together.