Kayle·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Kayle Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Lethal Tempo as your keystone, followed by Absorb Life, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, as well as Celerity and Gathering Storm in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Nashor's Tooth as your first item, followed by Boots of Swiftness and Rabadon's Deathcap. For your last 3 items, you should build Shadowflame, Lich Bane and finish with Void Staff. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - Q - W. Right now, this build has 56.7% winrate over 3 874 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Fleet Footwork as your keystone, Absorb Life, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Celerity with Gathering Storm in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Nashor's Tooth as your first item, then Boots of Swiftness as a second item and Rabadon's Deathcap as a third item. You want to finish the build with Shadowflame, Lich Bane and Void Staff. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it E - Q - W. This build is currently sitting at a 55.2% win rate across 1 464 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Kayle Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Lethal Tempo, Absorb Life, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand as your primary rune tree, and Celerity with Gathering Storm as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Guinsoo's Rageblade as your first item, then finish Boots of Swiftness as your second item, and Nashor's Tooth as third item. The last 3 options are Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame and Void Staff. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 55.7% win rate over 1 189 matches played.

Situational Kayle Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Kayle build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.