Darius vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Darius
based on 4,193 Darius vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Kayle
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Advice to Win Against Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Darius vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Darius in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some significant Darius vs. Kayle counter stats that may help us interpret the differences between this pair of champions. Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kayle’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kayle..
Darius usually has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Kayle. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Darius and Kayle
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Who is Better, Darius or Kayle?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Darius usually loses when facing off against Kayle, with a 45.8% win rate. As a result, Darius makes a poor counter for Kayle.
While Darius does have a much lower win rate than Kayle, when on opposite teams, Darius also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Darius into Kayle.
Additionally, Darius also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Darius vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Darius is a garbage counter to Kayle. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Darius against Kayle.
Other Champion Matchups Against Darius
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Darius in order to counter Kayle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kayle. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Darius versus Kayle build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Death's Dance. When Darius used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Kayle than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Darius boasted an average win rate of 45.8% when playing against Kayle with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Kayle as Darius, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Darius vs Kayle face-offs, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.8% win rate overall.
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