Talk:Kayle/@comment-5877442-20140826233847/@comment-5763148-20140827142615

The reason for that is cos AD Kayle has a slower late game than AP Kayle. For example, majority of the AD items like Infinity Edge take a lot longer to make than AP items like Rabadon's Deathcap. It's true that in terms of costs, there isn't much but the fact that you need to get extra Components to make them brings about some serious impact to your performance.

Majority of the AD items that AD Kayle uses to optimise her performance like IE, BT and recently, Essence Reaver all require BF Sword. Buying 3 of em is by no means an easy task regardless of whether you're facerolling or not. AP Kayle only needs to buy a Needlessly Large Rod once and she can faceroll. Twice if she gets ZHonya's in tandem.

But the itemization factors aside, this also occurs in the Mid Game Item uses. It's true AD Kayle has more mobility factor involved, but AP Kayle just has the betr overall advantage in Mid Game. Zephyr and BotRK are the main items for AD Kayle earlier on. Whereas, for AP Kayle, Nashor's and Wit's End are generally the go to items. These items are the most popular items outside of the power gifting items like IE and Deathcap.

When you combine the respective items together with their partners in crime, Both gain relatively the same amount of AS in total, so that is hardly included in the argument.

But the damage factor is involved here. Zephyr and BotRK give a total of 50 AD but they don't give as much consistent bonus damage. BotRK's passive helps deal extra damage, but is usually most optimal against Tanky types. The damage bonus is random. Whereas the AP side gives a nice bonus damage. 15 flat MD from Nashor's and 42 Flat MD from Wit's End. That's already dealing damage. On top of that is Nashor's bonus scaling that stacks with Righteous Fury and Wit's ENd having an inbuilt MR shredder that synergises well with her passive. Literally, you deal cleaner damage AND in larger amounts.

It's not that AD Kayle is bad, she has a lot of options just like AP. The problem is that her build is more sensitive than that of AP Kayle's cos she lacks items that have multiple options and require a more skewered build. AP Kayle can build items that not only have betr synergy with her Kit, but also have multiple benefits implemented into singular items.