Attack Speed slows affects Kayle’s DPS heavily, so items like

/

and even

gain an incredible amount of value against her.

Regardless of how Kayle casts

, another ally (in range) and herself will always be affected. This can make for some good movespeed buffs to get to safety or get engages going.

Casting

locks her out of being able to attack during the duration.

Even when Kayle is melee,

will always behave like a ranged attack. Good for last-hitting from safety and trading a bit of damage back early on. It has an auto attack reset as well.

Kayle's primary source of power comes from her evolves when hitting levels 6, 11, and 16 due to

.

Each of her item completions grants her a decent power spike, but especially the first one, being

.

With enough levels, Kayle will win most side lane matchups because of how incredibly well she naturally scales.

Kayle is extremely weak and susceptible to harassment/bad trades in lane while still in melee form (levels 1-6).

You can easily shut down a Kayle from early on with ganks, forcing her to give up gold/exp from CS and even killing her.

Because of Kayle's weak early game, she will have little-to-no map pressure for quite some time.