Talk:Kayle/@comment-95.92.82.209-20120908093833/@comment-5077305-20120911152017

Int did this comparison once before but I will do it again because I think it illustrates the two build really well:

Doran's Blade+BF Sword vs. Rage Blade. These are two likely early items for each build path and they have roughly equivalent gold:

Reckoning:

AD: +55 magic damage

Hybrid: +80 magic at low end, +128 at high end

Righteous Fury:

AD: +55 AD

Hybrid: +35 AD +18-37 magic for a total of 53-72 damage per hit

Since you receive 1 stack almost immediately in any exchange your RF dps is equivalent without even accounting for the AS. If you are kiting propely with kayle then it is actually fairly easy to gain stacks and make good use of them in a fight (albeit you tend not to lead into the fight with the stacks). At absolute worst rage blade breaks even in dps. At best it offers 17 for damage per hit and 32% more AS which would give what I would consider a massive DPS advantage early and mid game. This does not even take into account the added early utility of hybrid.