Kayle
Hardest matchups for Kayle in Top (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Yone, 
Gragas, 
Teemo. Easiest: 
K'Sante, 
Corki, 
Volibear.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into KayleOn the pro tier list
Kayle on patch 16.22
- Top51.2%#17 of 103A7,007 games
- Mid52.0%#14 of 91A1,437 games
- steady since 16.21
Kayle’s main role on patch 16.22 is Top: a 51.2% win rate across 7,007 Emerald games, #17 of 103 Top champions on the tier list (grade A), picked in 2.8% of games. Kayle is also played Mid: a 52.0% win rate across 1,437 games, #14 of 91. Since patch 16.21, Kayle Top has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.2 points across 47,439 games in 8 ranks. Riot changed Kayle in patch 16.22, and the win rate did not measurably follow.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top79% of its games | A | 51.1%51.2% raw ±0.8 | 16,365 | 2.3%1.5% banned | 52.0%49.0% first time |
| Mid18% of its games | B | 49.9%49.8% raw ±1.6 | 3,637 | 0.5%1.5% banned | 51.6%47.1% first time |
| Support1% of its games | too few games | 48.6%43.5% raw ±6.0 | 269 | 0.0%1.5% banned | 50.9%46.9% first time |
| Bot1% of its games | too few games | 49.5%47.1% raw ±7.4 | 174 | 0.0%1.5% banned | 51.2%47.6% first time |
| Jungle1% of its games | too few games | 49.4%45.6% raw ±7.8 | 160 | 0.0%1.5% banned | 51.0%47.7% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Kayle’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Kayle, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Kayle
Lane leads and team bans
What Kayle’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Kayle than the other team does in the same games (124,858 games). The other team banned before Kayle was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Kayle was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Kayle is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- AP sustained
54.6%10,638 games - On-hit
52.2%2,338 games - AP burst
54.2%2,277 games - Crit
54.0%285 games - Mana stack
54.5%115 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Kayle does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
17,461 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Ghost52.9% · 2,639 games
Lethal TempoPrecision + Sorcery · 51.2%
Absorb Life · Legend: Alacrity · Last Stand · Celerity · Gathering StormShards: Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health
Start: Doran's Blade + Health Potion · 54.0%
Key items: Nashor's Tooth → Dusk and Dawn · 54.9%
Boots: Boots of Swiftness · 54.8%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Ghost52.9%2,639 games · 15% pick rate · same players: +1.5 pts vs the usualRecommended
Flash + Teleport50.7%10,862 games · 62% pick rate · the usual choice
Flash + Ignite50.9%1,219 games · 7.0% pick rate · same players: −0.2 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Exhaust + Flash52.5%2,421 games · 14% pick rate · same players: −0.7 pts vs the usual
Keystones
- Lethal Tempo + Sorcery51.2%4,086 games · 23% pick rate · same players: +0.4 pts vs the usualRecommended
Lethal Tempo + Resolve50.8%1,196 games · 6.9% pick rate · same players: +0.1 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Press the Attack + Sorcery52.3%8,836 games · 51% pick rate · the usual choice- Press the Attack + Resolve50.7%905 games · 5.2% pick rate · same players: −0.2 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Minor runes with Lethal Tempo
- Absorb Life51.2%79% take it
Triumph49.3%13% take it
Presence of Mind50.8%8.1% take it
- Legend: Alacrity50.9%99% take it
- Last Stand51.1%86% take it
Coup de Grace50.7%7.1% take it
Cut Down49.0%6.9% take it
- Celerity51.1%97% take it
- Gathering Storm51.2%94% take it
Nimbus Cloak52.2%5.3% take it
- Adaptive Force52.8%17% take it
- Attack Speed51.0%83% take it
- Adaptive Force51.3%92% take it
- Move Speed51.5%7.6% take it
- Health52.1%17% take it
- Health Scaling51.2%79% take it
- Tenacity and Slow Resist50.7%3.9% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Kayle’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Kayle’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Kayle does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Kayle wins 48.6%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 52.7%. That gap ranks it 118 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 41K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Kayle in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | 50.0%2W 2L | 0%0% in any lane | 100% counter | +560 gold | — |
How much knowing Kayle pays
Players on their Mastery band win 4.0 points more on Kayle than first-timers do: #118 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Kayle players win 52.7%: #68 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The curve is still rising there: its fitted ceiling of about 53.6% lies beyond the data and is an estimate, not a measurement.
KayleDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Kayle ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Dr. Mundo, Ornn, Zaahen.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.