Talk:Kayle/@comment-66.215.68.142-20120613040821/@comment-2124153-20120613153512

How you jungle with Kayle, depends on your team and your playstyle. She is a little bit flexible. I personally prefer to leverage Kayle's innate strengths when I jungle with her. This means early level 2 ganks, lots of lane pressure, conserving mana so that I can give blue to mid lane, counter-jungling when safe, and ultimately building into a support DPS role.

So with that said: I almost always start boots + 3 pots, because that gives the early speed that I need for ganking. I don't like Dagger + 1 because it's squishy, don't like Cloth + 5 because I don't like Wriggles on Kayle, and I very rarely run Regrowth + 1 because that's the build of a jungler farmer rather than a ganker (though it is legit). My next items after Boots are almost always double Doran's Blades and Berserker's Graves. This gives good damage for cheap (since I max E first), and is sustain-netural without having to burn mana on Divine Blessing (6% lifesteal from Doran's + 6% from runes + 3% from masteries = 15% lifesteal).

Since I am level 2 ganking, I usually start wolves/blue on blue side, and wraiths/red on purple side. Reason for this: those camps are closest to top lane. Top lane is the easiest lane to gank at level 2, because it's a long lane (unlike mid), and is not likely to be warded (unlike bot). Helping your top lane snowball by giving them an early kill is one of the most effective earlygame accomplishments you can make as jungle Kayle. After that, I farm the jungle and go for ganks when possible. If the enemy jungler is spotted across the map from me, I'll invade their jungle and steal camps.

If you are NOT ganking, wolves/blue is probably the best start, because it makes the second blue spawn more quickly (so you can give it to mid lane), speeds up your jungle clear more effectively than red buff, and keeps your health levels higher for a few minutes. Note that you will run yourself out of mana quickly if you use Q/W in the jungle without blue. Clear camps only using E when you don't have mana regen. Small camps (wolves, wraiths, double golems) restore 30 mana when you kill them, which basically pays for the 45 mana cost of Righteous Fury.

One last bit of advice: make sure that you have initiation on your team if you play jungle Kayle. That's one thing that people normally expect from junglers, that she is not really very good at.