Talk:Kayle/@comment-3148699-20130403084106

I was playing AD/Hybrid Kayle back in early S2 when no even acknowledged her existance (hipster mode /off) and with all the fotm AP Kayle it still strikes me as odd that I get no flame in any game when I go Hybrid Kayle (Unfortunately AD Kayle is mostly dead to me and will only use her as a gimmick for the some weird bot lane combo). Don't get me wrong, the pros know better and AP Kayle does more but I have a slightly divergent build that helps me win most games when I play her.

My build goes with: Zerg boots, Gunblade, Nashor, Trinity, Rageblade and Warmogs. This is pure hybrid with decent AS. You are sitting at about 200+ AD + 300AP with 2.0+ AS and you're hitting fast and hard. For runes I go AS Marks (Hybrid pen totally viable), standard defensive MR/Armor and for Quints I go usually MS (Hybrid pen still viable). Masteries are pure offense 30/0/0, picking up both ArmPen/MPen, Spellblade, Scaling AP etc. You don't have the burst damage of AP Kayle but you have amazing sustained damage. It's also tons more fun and weird to itemize against such a build since you'll be doing lots of mixed damage. Only drawback is with people with high HP (Ruined King is a option instead of gunblade) will take a lot of punishment before going down. Gunblade/Rageblade can also be easily replaced by Zephyr for some tenacity/AS and CDR, it depends on the enemy team CC capabilities.

Early game for Hybrid Kayle is bad since you won't have the burst for Q+E attacks but you should focus on farm. Get Nashor asap and go from there. If you can afford Gunblade go for it, followed by rageblade/trinity. Mid/Late game you'll be metling carries you'll be hitting so fast and hard that enemy carries will just melt in seconds. As a final item I would go to the old League of Warmogs meta, there's no need to get another offensive item, GA is worse than before now so getting some health would be a wise choice. Gunblade offers a significant slow and due to your amazing attack speed the active will have a much better uptime.

There are very few champions that can go hybrid (Jax being the other one that comes to mind) so I think it's worth it to at least try it once.