Heimerdinger vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Heimerdinger
based on 1,794 Heimerdinger vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Kayle
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some influential Heimerdinger versus Kayle matchup stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kayle’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kayle..
Heimerdinger often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kayle. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Kayle
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Kayle?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Heimerdinger usually loses when facing off against Kayle, with a 47.2% win rate. Therefore, Heimerdinger makes a poor counter to Kayle.
While Heimerdinger does have a lower win rate compared to Kayle, when facing one another, Heimerdinger also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Heimerdinger into Kayleas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Heimerdinger has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayle. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Heimerdinger is a terribly counter for Kayle. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Heimerdinger against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to counter Kayle during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Kayle. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Heimerdinger versus Kayle build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Kayle than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average winrate of 47.2% when playing against Kayle with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Kayle as Heimerdinger, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Heimerdinger vs Kayle face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
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