Kayle is a champion in League of Legends.[1] She is a scaling pick that eventually dishes out unrivaled burst and sustained damage, and can provide powerful utility by granting herself and allies brief invulnerability. With her flexible itemization, Kayle can serve as a physical, magic, or even hybrid damage threat, while her supportive qualities allow her to embolden your team's frontline to engage and protect fellow carries caught by assassins and divers. Though her early capabilities are infamously bad, she still contributes to early skirmishes with her ultimate and can aid her team while she collects the gold and experience she needs to come into her own.
Innate:Kayle ascends through four forms that each grant additional bonuses. She ascends upon spending a skill point at levels 1, 6, 11, and 16.
Level 1 - Zealous:Kayle's basic attacks on-attack generate a stack of Zeal that lasts 5 seconds, which refreshes on subsequent hits and stacks up to 5 times. For each stack, she gains 6%(+ 1% per 100 AP)bonus attack speed, up to a maximum 30%(+ 5% per 100 AP). At max stacks, she becomes Exalted, gaining 8% bonus movement speed.
Level 6 - Arisen:Kayle becomes ranged and gains 350 bonus attack range for a total of 525.
Level 11 - Aflame: While Kayle is Exalted, her basic attacks on-attack also launch a wave of fire forward that deals 15 − 35 (based on Starfire Spellblade's Rank)(+ 10% bonus AD)(+ 25% AP)magic damage to all enemies it passes through. The wave is affected by critical strike modifiers.
Level 16 - Transcendent:Kayle gains an additional 100 bonus attack range for a total of 625, and permanently gains the full effects of Zealous.
The stacking attack speed can be tracked in the HUD via a buff called Zeal, while the maximum stacks bonus grants the buff Exalted.
Subsequent applications will also refresh the duration of all stacks, but all of them are lost when expired.
If Kayle is in her attack animation after the stacks expire, she gains another 0.5 seconds to refresh/stack Zeal.
Each stack increase attack speed based on the amount of ability power Kayle has at the time the stack is acquired and will not update if it is changed.
For example, if a stack acquired while she has no ability power, it will the increase attack speed by 6%. If 200 acquired afterwards, the next stack will grant 8%. The two increased attack speed by 14% (6 + 8) and not 16% (8 + 8).
Arisen
Basic attacks within 175 will still use Kayle's melee basic attack animations and do not utilize projectiles.
Due to this fact, projectile blocking effects cannot intercept basic attacks while Kayle's target is within her "melee" range.
Aflame
Basic attacks against structures and wards do not trigger fire waves.
While at 4 stacks of Zeal, the next on-attack reaching the fifth stack will be empowered by Aflame, releasing the first fire wave.
Transcendent
Zeal and Exalted buffs swapped to a new buff that grants the benefit of both and it is not visible on Kayle's HUD.
This buff also updates its attack speed value whenever a stat update happens and ability power is changed, however, it does not track ability power from other buffs, unless they have been specifically special cased. The following buffs are not special cased yet and will not grant bonus attack speed:
A wave consists of three projectiles for the hitbox and a fourth for visuals.
The hitbox projectiles spawn 75 units behind Kayle, travel through her, and are destroyed once they've traveled 850 units. Their technical details are:
Because Kayle is both a melee and ranged champion, she can purchase both ranged and melee exclusive items at anytime, but their effects will function depending on her current range type; the same principle also applies to runes.
However, keep in mind that, prior to ascending to Arisen, Starfire Spellblade also changes this behaviour based on its usage.
Waves are fired in the direction that Kayle is facing. Changing that during the attack windup via Flash will also change the direction of the wave.
Each ascension has an unique animation and a voice line. (See: Kayle's quotes)
The ascensions' animation will override the current one, but it does not cancel Kayle's current action, nor her previous orders.
Active:Kayle conjures a portal in front of her that faces the target direction, from which a celestial sword launches forward. The sword expands upon hitting an enemy, targets struck in the area are dealt magic damage, slowed for 2 seconds, and suffer 15% reducedarmor and magic resistance for 4 seconds.
This ability has a cast time and cast delay. The former represents the amount of time Kayle needs to spend to cast and is equal to her attack windup time. The latter is the amount of time the portal needs to launch the sword, which is always 0.264 seconds seconds, starting from the beginning of the cast time.
As implied by the previous point, the portal is created at the start of the cast time and Kayle does not have to be alive for it to launch the sword.
The portal does not follow Kayle's movements, using Flash or getting displaced won't change its position nor direction either.
The cast time can be calculated by dividing Kayle'swindup percent value (0.193555) with her current total attack speed.
Radiant Blast's cast time is 0.33 seconds at base attack speed, is at most 0.99 seconds at the minimum attack speed of 0.2, and is 0.099 seconds at the attack speed cap of 2.5. The cast time can be further decreased with effects that allows the player to bypass the attack speed cap, such as Lethal Tempo,
Additionally, it should be noted that due to action only taking place on whole game ticks, the cast time can only be changed in fractions of 0.033 seconds. This also means that the lowest possible cast time is 0.033 seconds, requiring at least 5.8652 attack speed.
Correction: Important to note that in patch V9.17, Radiant Blast's cast time was changed to be a flat 0.25 seconds, rather than scaling with the attack windup time. In patch V10.4, this was undocumentedly changed back. Whether the change to scale with windup time again was intentional or not is unknown.
The resistance reduction is applied after the damage has been dealt.
The expansion consist of 5 hitboxes, forming a cross-like shape centered 100 units ahead from the impact in its direction. Their technical details can be seen below and visualized on the image to the right.
The left side shows projectile's width and the total area traveled if it does not hit a target, while the right side shows the explosions when it hits a target.
ExplosionCenter: 100 radius
ExplosionLeft: 150 distance, 125 width
ExplosionRight: 150 distance, 125 width
ExplosionBackward: 100 distance, 90 width
ExplosionForward: 400 distance, 90 width
Interactions & Other
The visual effects of the explosion shows the blade and guard of Kayle's swords.
The resistance reduction can be tracked on the HUD as a debuff called Sundered and has a special icon that can be seen below.
Correction: Note that the PsyOps skin still uses the old shred VFX, which also only shows for 3 seconds (effect duration is not affected). This is possibly an oversight as all existing, and at the time released Dragon Slayer, skins were updated properly in V11.18.
Active:Kayle and the target allied champion are healed and gain bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
Heal:
50 / 76.25 / 102.5 / 128.75 / 155 (+ 25% AP)
Bonus Movement Speed:
24 / 28 / 32 / 36 / 40% (+ 8% per 100 AP)
If cast without a valid target, or self-cast, Celestial Blessing will automatically target the closest allied champion in range, prioritizing the one with the lowest health.
Passive:Kayle deals bonus magic damageon-hit. The waves from Divine Ascent have base damage equal to this effect's base damage.
Passive Damage:
15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 (+ 10% bonus AD)(+ 20% AP)
Active:Kayle kindles her blade, empowering her next basic attack within 6 seconds to have an uncancellable windup and deal additional bonus magic damageon-hit that is capped at 400 against monsters. If Kayle is not yet Arisen, this attack becomes ranged with 525 range.
Bonus Magic Damage:
8 / 8.5 / 9 / 9.5 / 10% (+ 1.5% per 100 AP) of target's missing health
Aflame Bonus: The attack explodes upon the target, dealing its damage to surrounding enemies and applying on-hit effects. This is affected by critical strike modifiers.
𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓: All parry interactions are marked for retesting because of patch V11.1 changes.
Interactions & Other
While the active's effect is up, a circle is visible to Kayle, indicating her range, however, this circle only takes into account Divine Ascent's effect on her range, not other sources such as Rapid Firecannon.
The increased range (with the item's effect included) will be 675 prior to ascending to Transcendent, after which it's 725.
To clarify the description, Starfire Spellblade can behave both as a ranged and melee attack based on how far the target is prior to Kayle ascending to Arisen, after which the attack will be always using ranged standards.
If the target is 200 units away or closer, the attack will be considered melee. This also uses her melee animations, not utilizing projectiles even after ascending.
If the target is over 200 units, the attack will be considered ranged.
To further expand on this: Using the ranged empowered attack will change Kayle's range type to ranged while the projectile is alive. This means that if the target could outrun the projectile, Kayle would be stuck on being ranged, although the bonuses from the active are not kept. While it's unlikely to be on this temporary ranged state for longer than half a seconds during a normal playthrough, it is possible to achieve few seconds when specific conditions are met.
Keep in mind that while on-hit effects will be applied to all targets in the explision, on-attack effects are only applied once per basic attack, not per target hit.
Single-use on-hits, such as Spellblade, will be applied to the main target.
If the main target died prior to the projectile reaching them, or if it was a jungle plant, the effects will be applied to the closest target from the explosion's center.
Despite being one cast instance, Starfire Spellblade triggers Muramana'sShock twice on each target, dealing normal bonus damage after the basic attack and increased bonus damage after the spell, totalling at ( 5% / 4.2%)maximum mana(+ 6% AD)bonus physical damage.
Divine Judgment's cast time does not interrupt movement and the cast will finish even after Kayle's death.
Since internalraw damage ignores invulnerability, the target may still die via the Nexus Obelisk, but the ability will finish at their corpse's position regardless.
Divine Judgment will prioritize casting on allies over Kayle. This means that if Kayle's and an ally's selection ranges are intercepting each other on the cursor's position, the cast will always occur on the ally.
As implied by the description, the invulnerability is granted at the beginning of the 1.5 seconds cast time, while the damage is dealt at the end.
Note that the cast time and the invulnerability duration is independent from each other. Some players may confuse the cast finish as the end of the invulnerability, but the target will be still invulnerable for 0.5 / 1 / 1.5 more seconds.
If casted on herself, Kayle's basic attack range is reduced to 400 during Divine Judgment's cast time for the purpose of helping her stay in effective range of the ability with attack commands.
Prior to becoming Transcended via Divine Ascent, casting Divine Judgment refreshes the duration of Zeal stacks at the start of the cast time to ensure that it does not expire while she can't attack during the cast.
During cast, an indicator for the damaging area can be seen around the target, however, this is not visible if there is no sight on the them.
While it's uncommon occurence, it is possible to cast Divine Judgment on targets who just entered resurrection or zombie state. This is only possible with very strict timing and perhaps high latency.
It's recommended to avoid both of the afformentioned interactions, as they renders the usage of Divine Judgment useless in many cases.
Interactions & Other
While the target is invulnerable, a number indicator will appear beneath them whenever they would receive damage to show the amount that was entirely mitigated. This is calculated pre-mitigation, or before resistances and reductions are taken into account.
If the ability is cast while the effect is ready, the range goes from 400 to 385 over 4 stat updates (400 -> 390 -> 387 -> 385). When the cast completes, the proper range needs 2 updates to set in ( 660 - 675 while Arisen; 710 - 725 while Transcended).
Gaining the effect during the cast will cause the range to cycle between 525 and 550 until the cast finishes, then the proper range is set after 1 update.
Selling the item during the cast causes the range to be set to 250.
𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 Range values are outdated because of patch V11.18 changes to Kayle.
The invulnerability can be tracked on the HUD via a buff called Intervention.
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Notes
As mentioned in some of the ability descriptions, Kayle's basic attacks within 175 units will always use her melee animation, even after becoming ranged, not utilizing projectiles.
Basic attack empowered by Starfire Spellblade have a 200 "melee" range.
Once reaching the second ascension at level 11, Kayle's portrait icon for certain skins will change:
On the Original skin becomes .
On the Silver skin becomes .
On the Viridian skin becomes .
On the Battleborn skin becomes .
On the Aether Wing skin becomes .
On the Riot skin becomes .
On the Pentakill skin becomes .
On the PsyOps skin becomes .
On the Dragonslayer skin becomes .
On the Pentakill III: Lost Chapter skin becomes .
Keep in mind that from others' point of view, only the Original skin is shown.
Trivia
The projectile speed of Kayle's basic attacks are the second highest in the game with its 5000 speed among all ranged basic attacks that utilizes projectiles. Aphelios'Severum gun has the fastest at 92400 speed, while Soraka has the slowest at 1000 speed. The average is between 1500 and 2000.
The first buff from Kayle's innate passive (Zeal) shares its name with the item Zeal.
In Ultimate Spellbook, Kayle ascends without the player's input. This is caused by the fact that the choosen Ult-ernate Summoner Spells are automatically ranked up when the required levels are reached, which also matches the levels that the player may initiate the ascensions on.
Champion skins
This article section only contains champion skins. For all associated collection items, see Kayle (Collection).
Born to a Targonian Aspect at the height of the Rune Wars, Kayle honored her mother’s legacy by fighting for justice on wings of divine flame. She and her twin sister Morgana were the protectors of Demacia for many years—until Kayle became disillusioned with the repeated failings of mortals, and abandoned this realm altogether. Still, legends are told of her punishing the unjust with her fiery swords, and many hope that she will one day return…
Zehra Fazal
Jessica 'OwleyCat' Oyhenart, Victor '3rdColossus' Maury
Forest Elves are long lived compared to the humans they live among, and many delve into centuries-long explorations for even a scrap of their empires' lost magic. Those who find it, such as Kayle, are gifted with incredible powers over the natural world.
Having cast aside her humanity, Kayle has transcended and fully assumed her mother's mantle as the divine Aspect of Justice. She is aware of her mortal origins, but views it as something distant that she left behind very long ago.
Kayle is a benevolent goddess in times of peace, and a terrifying battle spirit in times of war. She wears the traditional warpaint of her people as a living record of their victories and power.
Those poor souls accused of crimes are brought before the all-seeing entity Kayle, where their deeds are judged with cold dispassion. Few are absolved, and fewer still escape their sentence.
Authorized pilot of the X07-Gevurah combat exosuit, Kayle is a justicar of the Royal Space Military operating deep in the heart of lawless space. Though her mission is to uphold the fragile postwar peace, years of violent conflict have radicalized her—now she acts as heartless judge, jury, and executioner for anyone or anything that falls beneath her gaze.
To be crowned inquisitor was to take a stand against the darkness, and at the head of the order stood Kayle, for her light shone the brightest. But darkness comes in many forms, and when the city fell, even its greatest champion would eventually turn upon her sisters.
When PENTAKILL needed a female vocalist, the heavens parted and a literal angel of rock fell to earth, taking up her sword-mic for the eternal glory of heavy metal.
A self-described “savior” and powerful psionic swordswoman, Kayle views herself as an impartial judge in world affairs, appearing on wings powered by psychic energy as an angel of war. Her understanding of the world is black and white to a frightening extreme, and she has joined the paramilitary BRG to see her twisted vision realized.
A famous dragonslayer who vanished into the distant mountains, obsessed with destroying the dragon lineage utterly. Many years later she has returned, so changed by the carnage that she has begun to resemble a dragon herself.
All hail, Kayle, the Bringer of Woe! With the strength of a self-righteous angel, she claims justice and judgment soar on her wings of wrath. Surely, if any can rally the warrior host of metal, it will be her.
The hated sun-eater, Kayle wished to be one with the divine she loved, devouring the primordial sun and steeping the land in an eternal eclipse. Driven mad with light and unable to contain her power, she passed fragments down to an army of witch-knights, who slew the other gods in an act of unforgivable blasphemy.
While patch the patch notes specifically mentions Tear of the Goddess, the actual change made Starfire Spellblade be a single cast instance, rather than two indicidual ones (basic attack and spell).
Now only gives one stack for effects such as Electrocute or Phase Rush, instead of two.
Innate: Upon reaching levels 1, 6, 11, and 16, along with spending another skill point, Kayle ascends into a new form, gaining additional bonuses.
Zealous (1):Kayle's basic attacks grant 6% bonus attack speed for 5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times for a maximum of 30% bonus attack speed. At maximum stacks, Kayle becomes Exalted, gaining 8% bonus movement speed. Can stack against turrets.
Arisen (6):Kayle becomes a ranged champion with 525 attack range.
Aflame (11): While Exalted, Kayle's basic attacks against non-structures additionally launch a wave of fire in the target's direction, dealing 10 − 30 (based on Starfire Spellblade's Rank)(+ 10% bonus AD)(+ 25% AP)magic damage to enemies hit. The waves can critically strike for (100% + 25%) bonus magic damage.
Transcendent (16):Zealous is permanently set to maximum stacks and Kayle gains 50 bonus attack range, for a total of 575 attack range.
Old Effects:
Innate: Upon reaching levels 1, 6, 11, and 16, along with spending another skill point, Kayle ascends into a new form, gaining additional bonuses.
Zealous (1):Kayle's basic attacks against non-structures grant 6% bonus attack speed for 5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times for a maximum of 30% bonus attack speed. At maximum stacks, Kayle becomes Exalted, gaining 15% bonus movement speed when moving toward enemies.
Aflame (6): While Exalted, Kayle's basic attacks against non-structures additionally launch a wave of fire in the target's direction, dealing 10 − 30 (based on Starfire Spellblade's Rank)(+ 10% AD)(+ 20% AP)magic damage to enemies hit. The waves can critically strike for (100% + 25%) bonus magic damage.
Arisen (11):Kayle becomes a ranged champion with 550 attack range. Additionally, Zealous'sbonus attack speed is increased to 10% bonus attack speed per stack, for a maximum of 50% bonus attack speed.
Transcendent (16):Zealous is permanently set to maximum stacks. Additionally, Aflame's fiery waves now deal true damage instead.
Innate - Zealous:Kayle's basic attacks grant 6% bonus attack speed for 5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times for a maximum of 30% bonus attack speed. At maximum stacks, Kayle becomes Exalted, gaining 15% bonus movement speed when moving toward enemies.
Upon spending 6, 11, and 16 skill points, Kayle ascends into a new form, gaining additional bonuses.
Aflame - Level 6: While Exalted, Kayle's basic attacks additionally launch a wave of fire in the target's direction, dealing 10 − 30 (based on Starfire Spellblade's Rank)(+ 10% AD)(+ 20% AP) magic damage to enemies hit.
Arisen - Level 11:Kayle becomes a ranged champion with 550 attack range. Additionally, Zealous'sbonus attack speed is increased to 10% bonus attack speed, for a maximum of 50% bonus attack speed.
Transcendent - Level 16:Kayle permanently has full Zealous stacks and is permanently Exalted. Additionally, Aflame's fiery waves now deal true damage.
Active:Kayle plants a portal at her initial location that faces the target direction. After a 0.5-second delay, a celestial sword launches forward from the portal.
The sword explodes into a cross upon collision with an enemy, dealing 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+ 60% bonus AD)(+ 50% AP) magic damage and slowing targets struck by 26 / 32 / 38 / 44 / 50%, while reducing their armor and magic resistance by 20% for 3 seconds.
Active:Kayle and target allied champion are healed for 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+ 30% AP) health and gain 26 / 32 / 38 / 44 / 50% (+ 10% per 100 AP)bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
If cast without a valid target, or self-cast, Celestial Blessing will automatically target the most wounded ally in range.
Active:Kayle's next basic attack within 6 seconds deals 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20% of target's missing healthbonus magic damage. While Aflame, it also damages enemies surrounding the target.
Prior to becoming Arisen, Starfire Spellblade also causes Kayle to become a ranged champion with 550 attack range on the empowered attack.
Active:Kayle conjures swords around the target allied champion or herself over 1.5 seconds, after which she brings them crashing to the ground, dealing magic damage to all enemies in the area.
Divine Judgment also grants the target invulnerability for 2 / 2.5 / 3 seconds.
Target Range: 900.
Mana Cost: 100.
Cooldown: 160 / 120 / 80 seconds.
Trivia
Kayle, the Judicator
Kayle was the first to have her dance changed after release, (followed by Veigar) the first to have her abilities reworked three times since release, (followed by Ryze) and the first to use Chinese artwork outside Asian servers.
Gameplay
Starfire Spellblade's Rank)
Zeal, while the maximum stacks bonus grants the buff 
Exalted.
Intervention.
Zehra Fazal
Jessica 'OwleyCat' Oyhenart, Victor '3rdColossus' Maury
Loot eligible
Loot inelgible
