Talk:Kayle/@comment-218.103.245.134-20101005091002

I have been playing Kayle in solo q for a week. I feel she is a bit underpowered and deservingly underplayed. She's outclassed by the newer OP champions.

Her early game sucks ball all she can do is farm. She has no steroid skill and is thus extremely item dependant. However getting the gold is difficult. Look up on lolbase.net Kayle has one of the lowest avg gold income being only slightly better than tanks like Alister and Rammus. And forget about getting kills unless you can tower dive like a pro. Kayle has no cc/burst/charge abilities and it hurts a lot. As a late game carry she does respectable damage but definitely not on par with other more popular ranged carries like Trist or MF.

Although this champion is tagged as "recommended", I do not recommend it to newbie. Kayle really needs to farm a rageblade or nashor to be anywhere effective. It can be difficult to decide whether to farm or to help your teammates. If your team failed, even if you've farmed your items you will not win the game alone. It's not uncommon in my experience to finally have farmed the required items but then lost the game. The farming can be boring.

A lot of people I encountered in solo q mistaken Kayle for a primary support rather than a late game DPS. They expect Kayle to see their HP bar bumps up significantly when they're in team fight, which Kayle's poor AP scaling on her heal spell could not do, and if they died then they will blame you for not being the "support". This can be very frustrating for new players.

My advice: don't be fooled by the recommended tag. This champ is only good when you're very skilled.