Talk:Kayle/@comment-4094339-20130906071608/@comment-5057599-20130907235320

DFG is not the best first item on Kayle. She doesn't have burst per se unlike every DFG rushing champion (Ahri, LB, Veigar...). Kayle deals mostly sustained damage and her lane strength is in winning trades consistently, not take out enemy champions in one rotation.

That's why Nashor's Tooth is by far the best item to rush on her. It gives AP to make her abilities scale, it gives a huge AS boost to apply E's damage more frequently, it gives CDR to spam Q and have E permanently up and it brings E's scale to 60% together with the Spellblade mastery. DFG might give more damage upfront but I assure you Nashor's Tooth's utility and all-round stats largely outscale the burst damage from DFG early on.