Talk:Kayle/@comment-25837934-20161229055428/@comment-24082016-20161229215033

What both of you touched on is 1 of the 3 things that decides a fight vs Kayle, and that is timing. For a Kayle, Timing, Positioning, and Build decide fights. Knowing when to go in, are there any types of trades you can win with your current power, how to control the lane, when to ult, if it's better to sit on someones face(e.g. aurelion's) or to keep distance will harrassing(e.g. zed/jax), etc etc. People think Kayle is easy bc there aren't any skillshots or delayed activations in her kit, but that is underestimating the fact that her kit makes her more suited for single/duo combat. She's a fighter/controller(use to be labeled support). She doesn't have purely offensive abilities, so she cant just faceroll keyboard and burst down people. Not all her abilties are defensive, so you can't faceroll keyboard and expect to survive getting gangbanged( j.k. Ult ftw). She doesn't have any instant gap closing/making built in, so at high enough elos, every spacing of attacks and positioning has to be intentional bc they can make/break trades & Kills. She has no hard CC, so enemies will never be literally unable to move and at her mercy. An evenly fed Kayle can be beaten if she doesn't know when to go all in or when to go for ult. However, by 4 items(counting boots), a Kayle player with both these mechanics down will never lose any 1 on 1 duel(assuming you built correctly for the matchup and not as if you're braindead).

Kayle can win any straight 1 on 1, even if she gets exhausted. It might be harder based on what you've built up to that point. For instance, A Zed may be able to burst/DPS Kayle down a Kayle to force her ult, but that all depends on his ability to "do damage". A Zed properly kited with her slows and speedup, will be forced to ult to try stick to her. A Zed needs to be seriously far ahead or vs a glass cannon Kayle(Kayle with no armor giving items) in mid/late to be able to chunk out a Kayle. The same goes for any other damage brute. There are specific cases where they can get out their damage, but as a Kayle, you have all the tools to play around  and deny those conditions. You just have to know how to pull it off.

And Exhaust only lasts for so long. Just like how you can reduce the effectiveness of Kayle during her ult, her ult can be used to invalidate the defensive disadvantages suffered from exhaust(if need be). In addition to this, the enemy isn't the only one bringing summoners to the battle.