Talk:Kayle/@comment-4861674-20121220005812/@comment-2124153-20121221233300

Your descriptions of Kayle are just wrong. You let your biases of what Kayle "should" do color your analysis.

AD Kayle certainly can ult a teammate. Why shouldn't she? If that person is in a better position to make use of the ult, there is no reason to hold it selfishly. AD Kayle has lifesteal, possibly has GA, and the team has a secondary carry.

In addition to the seven-ish champions with AS reduction, every champion can reduce AS with itemization: Frozen Heart. This is a real disadvantage for Kayle players. Does hybrid amelioriate it? No, like all of her other disadvantages, hybrid does diddly squat to help. It's a joke to claim that hybrid has no weaknesses. It has the same weaknesses the other builds do, except with none of the strengths that they provide.

Here is a list of champions that have better anti-burst than Kayle:

If you don't see anyone up there, it's because they don't exist. Kayle's shield can block an entire team's spell rotation, has no upper damage limit, and you can't get rid of it except by waiting it out. It's the single best anti-burst skill in the entire game.

It's fine to play hybrid, but it's not fine to pretend that it's not mathematically inferior to the alternatives. You aren't special, you're just different. For the sake of being different. Hybrid no longer even has cost-effectiveness advantages in Season 3. Best to be realistic about it.