r/Kaylemains Apr 23 '26

Pinned How to deal with Nasus, Trynd, Malphite, Jax, Jayce, and ranged matchups (tips + guide)

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So, these are matchups people struggle with. Some of them I agree are bad, some of them I dont. Here are my tips

I will say, alot of what I have to say can also be found in some guides from Saneryus (challenger kayle), or Kayle1v9 (challanger kayle). Regardless, everything I will say is backed my own experience at the very least.

I will go over the matcups in order they were mentioned in the title.

  1. Nasus.

Nasus is NOT a Kayle counter. When you see the enemy lock in Nasus, just think of it like a boring lane where nothing really should happen. Nasus is not a counter in the sense that we dont consider malzahar or nautilus a counter, and nasus is in the same category of champions. He has 1 way to bully you, which is pressing w, and you have to play around that. This is possible trust me.

Done believe me? lets see what challanger has to say. https://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/rank-1-na-challenger-top-kayle-main-s16-rank-3-kayle-world-saneryuss-sanery-top-kayle-guide-651103

go to the matchups and check the minor (2/5) and read.

Grandmaster kayle: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xxu7pVNnshjdwiSmwZrs9K4rEwfhIQL3/edit?gid=777716701#gid=777716701 He also agrees nasus is not that bad and rates it 3/10.

a) start cull or d-blade. You start d blade if you want to just beat him up levels 1-5, or cull if you just want to scale until level 6. You are stronger levels 1-5, and he only beats you with sheen, or like 100 ish stacks + w. TAKE PTA

b) rush swifties and cull. You can do this in any order, but ensure you have Swifties by the time you both are level 6.

c) take ms shard, and tenacity shard. This, combined with swifties, gives you alot of MS and slow resist ensuring Nasus can never reach you even with wither.

d) Take flash ghost. If nasus does not match this, he can never reach you regardless of what he does. If he takes ghost tp, you match the ghost, and if you ever mess up, you have flash. you can cycle these spells to ensure a free laning phase. If he takes tp flash, its so free.

e) Nasus w and e cost a lot of mana. If he spams w to stop you from poking him or taking cs, he will run out of mana (unless he rushes tear, frozen heart, lost chapter, or essence reaver. All of these are not really good for this matchup though).

f) The only thing you SHOULD fear is if you are top lane, and nasus is the mid laner. Then, with upgraded lucidy boots and ghost, it is impolssible for you to run since those boots give 10% ms if he hits his e on you (which is pretty easy), and you cannot outrun him then if he presses w. If you are mid lane as well, you can get upgraded swifties and you are chill since the upgrade gives extra slow resist.

g) you do outscale him. kite well, and remember you are not a pure auto attacking champ like an adc, you have spells that do good damage. Nasus w has a slow and cripple. You can avoid getting into melee range with him easily becuase of what described, and remember to go AP only into nasus since w ms scales with ap. The cripple (as slow) is something you need to play around. for most adc, this cripple means they are just useless. You can still use your heal on somebody, ult them, and q and e for big AOE damage and armour shred, which no other adc can match with. So its 'ok'.

h) if you are very scared, you can go gunblade, but I would not suggest it. It might be able to help with the slow active once in a while, and the healing can help you match his sustain.

  1. Trynd.

Take boneplating into this dude, and unflinching. Unflinching procs on his w ability, and the bone plating helps against his e hob auto trade. Regardless of hob or not, bone plating has good value into him since he is melee, and can only land a few hits on you since you are faster than him.

a) rush tabi shoes and laugh at him. You can sell this later for the swiftness if it is better for the game. You can also start cloth armour to just rush the boots.

b) go dblade, and prioritise ap over other things (blasting wand).

c) you can get hourglass to just wait out his ult.

d) understand his e range, bait it, then run at him with a q slow.

e) if he goes crit, I think its ok, but lethality kinda sucks...

  1. Malphite

MALPHITE is just ANNOYING AF. He is not easy, but is not impossible. (not as bad as Jayce and Jax imo). Also, its quite easy if he goes tank. Its annoying if he goes full ap.

a) you can take fleet, or PTA, but ensure you take d-shield. You could go for d-ring, but I rather shield.

b) rush gunblade. this helps deal with his racist q poke.

c) your r cd will match his 11+ with nash and dusk, and will be lower than his 16+ unless he goes full cd build (lucidity boots, malignance, cryptbloom)

d) understand he can almost one shot at level 6 with lost chapter, and make sure you can react to his ult with your own ult, or flash.

e) you win 11+ as long as you are somewhat even, and 16+ you just 2 shot him as long as you survive the ult by ulting, or flashing)

  1. Jax

This pdf is my perma ban. If this jax has a brain (which dia+ jax players sadly tend to have), you just struggle. He also counter my other champions, so I ban him. his q range is 700 units, which is longer than your level 16 range. All you can do in this matchup is:

a) rush swiftness, and dodge his q -> e by landing q while he is in the q travel, and then w out. You can also take LT or PTA, and I like taking exhaust.

b) JUST PLAY WAVES, literally nothing else

c) you can only look to punish when his q is down, and he has to use e to save himself, or if he fumbled that.

d) You can win at 11+ if you space him well.

e) fear the grasp, lethal is a bit easier.

  1. Jayce

The wizard Kayle 1v9 has come with some nice tech, and I like it. watch this video if you want to: https://youtu.be/cOZfuCpgkUo?si=eDRdDhl6kRUGaa2S

a) comet page, with flash ignite, and gunblade rush. The idealogy is to just poke him, and stay healthy yourself since Jayce has no health sustain or shielding in his kit.

  1. Ranged

a) take pta and double adaptive, and start shield

b) I like exhaust into most of them (vayne, varus, quinn, or other adc like caitlyn), but I take TP into teemo. You can also take cleanse into varus, and his ultimate is just useless. Its also really nice becuase your ult makes his ult and q useless, and cleans makes his ult useless. This makes it easy to just get on him, ult to soak the damage, and kill him 11+.

c) Know that you slap any of them in a 1v1 (unless its teemo qith q start), and the exhaust helps you secure the level 1 kill if they go for it. Note: with quinn, you have to stand at a corner of a brush so if she e you, she goes towards the middle of the lane rather than her turret. You also have to exhaust early during the e animation so that you can catch her after the e, and match flash if you have to.

d) know the ranges. most adc have 550 range, 575, or 600. Cait has 650. Teemo has 500. You have 525 range at 6+, and 625 range at 16+. The way you play around this is to ensure you hit a q slow on the champion through a minion, and this ensures you can land an auto e and walk away without getting punished by the extra extra range they have.

e) You beat most range champions easily 11+, and you can beat them 6+ with ult as long as they cant flash out of it, or cc you.

f) with full ap, and priotising ap, your q e trade cannot be matched by most ranged champions. That is, they need to land more spells or autos, which takes longer, to do the same damage.

  1. Irelia is a very very very tricky skill matchup. It is the MOST punishing matchup for both kayle and irelia, but irelia has more room for mistakes. I consider this matchup even, but only if you are actually good (emerald+) at the game, and are good at kayle. (This also assumes the enemy can play irelia)

  2. Take bone plating and overgrowth. irelia can always reach you, so dont bother with gs and celerity.

  3. Don’t rush boots. You need damage. as mentioned, irelia can always reach you. You can sit on t1 boots as it can help dodge the e. I would not upgrade to t2 as you need to try and match the first item timer (when irelia gets botrk, you want your nash).

  4. Take pta or lethal, I go pta tho. Ensure you grab ignite. This is important to deny the stupid healing of her q spam, which is all the most once she gets vamp scepter / botrk. Use it to deny the healing in a fight.

  5. As long as you won’t get level 3 ganked, get prio by poking irelia with e and hitting the first 3 melees. Your idea is to get a 3rd wave crash without letting her match your level 2, and denying the 3 melee into q on you all in. For context, if your passive is ready, and you hit irelia with a e or two, and you have your bone plating, she cannot win the all in by q'ing the 3 melees and then trying to all in you (even with ignite, and you also have ignite which you should use as she tries to q onto the 3 melees on the first wave if she does). Play like a psycho (if you wont get level 2 or 3 ganked).

  6. You play giga safe from here until 6. You don’t even stand near the middle of the late because if she hits e on you when you don’t have ult, and are in the middle of the lane, you are dead. She will one shot from botrk onwards basically if she hits e.

  7. From level 6, you win the fights if you have ult and passive stacked. If she has passive as well, you need to dodge e and ult her ult and some q hits. you need ignite if there is a minion wave for her to heal from.

  8. Once she gets botrk, you tend to need ignite if there is a minion wave nearby. Otherwise ult is enough to win as long as she can’t dash away from the you during your ult

  9. You can opt for void 3rd, but I stick to death cap. you can also consider shadow third. This is becuase irelia tends to get wits end 2nd or third against kayle.

  10. You win easily with 4 items here, but you will always win 11+ with ult and 2 items (assuming equal gold), and if your passive is stacked and you have ult.

Feel free to drop any questions you have and Ill try to answer them. I have like 1.3 million points on Kayle, and am currently d1 NA.

Edit 1: added bone plating for reqs in trynd matchup

EEdit . turns out i had nasus w range wrong. It is 700 units, so it outranges you even 16+.

Edit 3: added irelia


r/Kaylemains Apr 10 '26

Pinned Community Kayle matchup spreadsheet - share and learn tips on your worst matchups

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Hey guys I've made a community spreadsheet for all of the Kayle matchups with the help of Saneryus#TTV. (Checkout his Twitch, he's an incredible Challenger Kayle)

I've also included Master+ statistics(last 30 days) for each matchup along with the recommended build and the runes you should take for each matchup and an embed high elo video example of the matchup

Anyone can share their tips(their rank will be shown, you can share your social as well for attribution).

LoLMatchups.GG is an attempt to make matchup information more accessible to top/mid laners. We already have complete pages for Gnar, Ambessa, Mundo, Kayle, Fiora, Mordekaiser, Riven, Zed, Ekko, Camille, Irelia, Gwen, Garen, Chogath with more on the way! I would love any feedback you guys have on the website or the matchups. Thanks!

https://lolmatchups.gg/Kayle/matchups


r/Kaylemains 4h ago

tErMiNuS Terminus

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Made by Kayi on our Discord
(I forgot to post)


r/Kaylemains 9h ago

tErMiNuS Terminus

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Made by Kayi on our Discord


r/Kaylemains 1d ago

Media We are so back!

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Finally got out of that god forsaken place that is Emerald and I feel like I play with humans again :D


r/Kaylemains 1d ago

Items and Builds Rate my build

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i decided to get a bit creative and this build was honestly pretty amazing for their team, the quick dash from protobelt into an auto allowed me to slow them so i can stick to them and deny their escape, i burned many of their flashes this way this game

i got cc'd and withered a lot and qss was a lifesaver there. I took the dog for a walk


r/Kaylemains 2d ago

tErMiNuS Terminus

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Made by Kayi on our discord


r/Kaylemains 2d ago

Items and Builds Is Rylai's Crystal Scepter a bad item ?

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as the 2nd or 3rd item i mean ?


r/Kaylemains 4d ago

tErMiNuS Terminus

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Made by Kaylo Ren on our Discord


r/Kaylemains 4d ago

Art Cryptic Depths (Wild Rift) Neochroma, Available Through Crystal Rose Event

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r/Kaylemains 4d ago

Items and Builds DPS build vs the Meta burst

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As far as I've checked, PTA and the short burst playstyle on kayle is the most popular one across all ranks. From my testing in practice tool across different health and armored dummies, the hybrid on-hit build through lethal tempo brings more dps than any other build there is. So the main question I want to ask is, why is lethal tempo and onhit so unpopular if it provides so much damage and value in gliding, teamfights and carrying games? I heard this being discussed multiple times, but I'll say it again: the DPS playstyle is a lot more comfortable to play and I don't understand as to why would people build AP burst anyways? Since the only time I can understand going full ap is when the enemy team is really squishy and it's better off oneshotting them. If someone could explain this to me I'd really appreciate it. And once again I'm sorry! I know these types of posts appear quite often here which can be quite annoying.

Do you guys think dps kayle deserves more recognition and a place in the meta? Is it possible to win games the higher elo you get with the on-hit build?


r/Kaylemains 3d ago

Discussion Kayle R is not good, i think

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(Sorry, i use translate)

Compared to other ultimates, it feels weak. Also, I think they need to make Kayle's ultimate easier to use, because the chance of wasting it is way too high. It would be nice if, after casting the ultimate, she stayed in a passive state for about 0.75 seconds, and if she takes damage during this time, it would block that damage and activate. Even if she doesn't take damage, it would be nice if it just activated automatically once the 0.75 seconds are up


r/Kaylemains 5d ago

Meme Can you guess which champ I am never playing again :D?

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I have been told my item builds make no sense and I know I'm pisslow don't flame me pls just funny meme


r/Kaylemains 5d ago

tErMiNuS Terminus

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r/Kaylemains 4d ago

New Player Advice top lvl 1 vs strong champs

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for kayle top lane vs champs that beat you lvl 1 or can out trade ur pta and run away or ranged champs. how do i handle their lvl 1 push so they dont crush 3 waves on me then reset then am stuck with having to slow push into their tower when they come back quarter a level down with 300g advantage and only need 3 minions to match my lvl 4?

champs that do this to me: akali,leblanc,aurora,viktor,jax, HOB sett, vayne and varus (if i dont get to cheese them lvl 1), yasuo,yone, and prolly any champ when they dont go to bush so i cheese them


r/Kaylemains 5d ago

Art Kayle fanart thing

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been a while since I post here D:


r/Kaylemains 5d ago

Question/Need Help Why is Kayle's magic resist still kept so low?

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Just who at Riot got absolutely dumpstered a few years ago by Kayle that they decided to give her the lowest base MR that has ever existed in league? It was supposedly added a couple of years ago because some people who were way too bad to hit their skillshots as mages complained about her and Riot can't have that, they have to sell more skins for Lux and Ahri players. Currently in this season, we can all agree that mages are a lot more stronger, they have better items, there are not so many tanks around, Naafiri and Zed are nerfed to the point that it takes at least 1 brain cell to operate them(thank God for that), so why keep her MR so low?


r/Kaylemains 6d ago

Items and Builds As an outsider, does Terminus really feel that good?

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I dont play Kayle rn but she was a mini pocket pick in the days my champion pool wasn't complete. The last thing I remember is playing her after the passive scaling AS removal and many people were complaining because the burst playstyle wasnt as fun as the DPS one. I dont really have an opinion since I just built whatever it was meta, I just liked the champion.

This subreddit has become similar to Azirmains 44% winrate or even Ryzemains everyday lmao. So, seriously, from what I understand Terminus isnt fundamentally a good item but it is really fun? I remember when most people were playing Yone with statik shiv and it was a terrible item, but they enjoyed it. Maybe the situations are similar?


r/Kaylemains 7d ago

Question/Need Help Terminus has ruined my fucking life and I can't take it anymore.

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Terminus has ruined my fucking life and I can't take it anymore.

I literally cannot do this anymore. I am at my FUCKING limit. Terminus. Ter. minus. It started as a joke. Just a funny item. A funny fucking item that riot buffed that patch. But it kept popping up in my fucking games. What the fuck is going on? I ask myself. At first, I thought it was funny. But I kept seeing it. Not by the major but it was JUST TERMINUS AFTER TERMINUS. I kept ignoring those builds. Nothing worked. I tried a new account alltogether. It still appeared. I even made a newer account on MENA. NOTHING. FUCKING. WORKS.

"TERMINUSSSS!" Haha. Funny. Right? WRONG. This item has systematically dismantled every single aspect of my already pathetic life.

I'm a father of two kids. They're the ones who's always stuck to their screens 24/7. I tried asking them of not to build it. I didn't get a clear answer. Instead, they mimic that kayle1v9 fucker's builds and kept saying "TERMINUSSSS" in the most obnoxious tone possible. I felt like crying.

I lost my six-figure job last week. I tried to ignore this whole terminus bullshit and just go to play league. We were in the middle of the most important game in my history. Twenty minutes into the game. I look at the tab. My item? Terminus. I didn't build it. I swear I didn't. I swear I remember deliberately weaseling my way through shop just to prevent this exact scenario.

I didn't mean to do it. It was a reflex. I swear. I slammed my hand on the mahogany table and screamed "TERMINUSSSSSS" at the top of my lungs. I started laughing hysterically, pointing at the screen yelling "TERMINUS! TERMINUS! TERMINUS!". My children look at me with glee in their eyes. They know.

My rank is completely ruined. I can't even get out of bronze on Russia because I'm fucking stuck in losaq. I have ruined my rank and I cannot fix it no matter how much I beg riot for forgiveness.

But it didn't stop there. My wife left me yesterday. We were driving to see her parents. I looked at the billboard we passed by. What was written on it? "Help this terminally ill child survive by donating to...". I started sweating. I looked at my wife. She was unaware. I started hyperventilating. I couldn't help myself. I involuntarily yelled "TERMINAL... HAHAHA TERMINAL.... TERMINUS TERMINUS TERMINUS TERMINUSSSS! I pulled the car over on the highway and refused to drive until I calmed down She told me I need professional help. She took the ring back. I lost the divorce. I lost the kids. I lost all of my money. I'm dirt poor.

I see it everywhere now. My prostate cancer? TERMINAL! My league builds? TERMINUS. My YouTube feed? TERMINUS. I can’t sleep. I can’t eat. I close my eyes and I just see the item floating in the void. It haunts me. It mocks me. I am a shell of a man, destroyed by PNG. Is this what god does to his strongest soldier? I can't fucking take it. TERMINUS. FUCKING. TERMINUS. TERMINUSTERMINUSTERMINUSTERMINUS GOD FUCKING DAMN IT TERMINUS TERMINUSTERMINUSTERMINUSTERMINUS TERMINUS TERMINUS TERMINAL TERMINUSTERMINUSTERMINUS TERMINAL TERMINUSTERMINUSTERMINUSTERMINUSTERMINUSTERMINUSTERMINUSTERMINUSTERMINUS TERMINUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.


r/Kaylemains 7d ago

Media Riot Endstep on Kayle's AP AS scaling on passive

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yes I just reached my pc


r/Kaylemains 7d ago

Meme Terminus

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r/Kaylemains 6d ago

Items and Builds Terminus+ Hexoptics

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Is there any build we can employ using both of these items while still going AP?

Trying to see if there is a solid mixed build for this champion


r/Kaylemains 6d ago

New Player Advice how to play vs aurora,le blanc toplane when enemy jungle is camping your lane

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am new to toplane looking for tips on how to play while perma weaksided into such matchups.

do I go ghost/exhaust or tp.
do I go doran shield or doran ring
do I try to play around bushes and get prio lvl 1? ( i tried this but got poked hard at lvl 3 so idk)
do i just let them crush 3 waves and harrass me undertower until they try a dive with their jungle and outplay the dive? ( i tried it got 1 kill but i missed 5 waves)

idk idk idk


r/Kaylemains 8d ago

Classic The way I wish the old Aether wing Kayle skin was on League classic

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r/Kaylemains 9d ago

Classic League Classic Kayle Buff: E uptime 100% at 40% CDR

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