Kayle vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Kayle
based on 1,794 Kayle vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Heimerdinger
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Advice to Win Against Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Kayle vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Kayle in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some strategic Kayle versus Heimerdinger matchup stats that can help you understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Heimerdinger..
Kayle normally has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes more damage than Heimerdinger. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Kayle or Heimerdinger?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually wins when taking on Heimerdinger, with a 52.8% win rate. As a result, Kayle makes a good counter to Heimerdinger.
While Kayle does have a higher win rate than Heimerdinger, when on opposite teams, Kayle also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Kayle into Heimerdingeras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayle has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Heimerdinger matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kayle is an above average counter to Heimerdinger. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kayle against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kayle to counter Heimerdinger 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 tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Heimerdinger. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Kayle versus Heimerdinger build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Kayle incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Heimerdinger than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kayle had an average win rate of 52.8% when countering Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Heimerdinger as Kayle, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Kayle vs Heimerdinger fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.8% winrate overall.
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