Kayle Build Guide : Paladin of Purity: The Righteous Guide to Kayle Support

And who might you be?

A Quick Reminder before starting

As I continue to update this guide, I aim to keep it both detailed and easy to follow. Each section begins with a general and detailed idea of what to do, laying out the key steps and strategies for playing Kayle Support effectively.

Afterward, you’ll find a more specific section diving into the reasoning behind these choices—why I recommend certain things or avoid others. If you feel like you’ve grasped the general idea and don’t need the additional details, you can always click the collapse button (the little minus icon to the right of the header) to skip ahead to the next main section.

This way, I feel like the guide isn’t bloated by unnecessary text that might not tell you anything new, making it more reader-friendly while allowing me to go deeper into the details for those who want to explore further.

Now, having said that, let’s begin the actual guide, shall we?

Nothing of interest

It is I, the author. Kalakaua they call me.

I have been playing league ever since the beta finished, and I have a long history of experimenting with off-meta builds, one of whose is Kayle support, as you will see here. Unrelated but if you wanna know more about me then look at this presentation page I made with most of my links, not all of em though.

I am not the creator of the playstyle nor am I the most knowledger of it, I am a mere believer of their words and might be considered a prophet of it all even.
If you want to discuss it in more detail then I invite you to the place where I discovered it for the first time, an off-meta discord server by a streamer that surprise surprise, is unrelated to this build.

https://discord.gg/63wXSKT

Also if you want, check out this discord server more focused to Kayle Support.

https://discord.gg/jZAjYUTXZ3

Pros and Cons

Pros

Strong dual heal for little cost
Nice resistances shred
Very powerful ultimate
Strong peeling mid to late game
Moves very fast
Respectable range

Cons

Not a lot of power by herself
Fragile against intense burst early on
Lacking in protection of objectives alone
You miss on a big portion of your passive

Why Support Kayle?

Your holy protector

Kayle has always been a good solo pick along with a support, though since her rework that she got her solo capabilities have been not stellar, support has also gotten through some tough times but somehow remains constantly strong. Instead of focusing on CC like a lot of other supports, Kayle has a huge peeling potential with a small resistances shred from that can hit multiple people and slow them at the same time, and a dual heal from that gives movement speed as well, and don't forget her 2.5 seconds of invulnerability on an ally target from your ultimate , this allows her to be of great assistance in fights.

You can think of Kayle as a reverse Taric actually, both have nice heals, allow one fighting team to have more resistances than the other would in normal circumstances, and both have invincibility ultimates. Though they differ in some key points like Taric's heal is more spammable but with less power, his resistances situation makes your ally have more protection instead of the enemy having less, and his ultimate has AoE protection but its slower and more telegraphed. I think that these differences make Kayle come out on top.

A guardian angel

is one very strong healing ability, it doesn't look like it has huge numbers by itself but you heal two people, so you must realize that whatever the number may say, you actually heal double that. It also gives a nice boost of movement speed of 40% to both targets which can help hugely on fights or escapes. And very noteworthy is that the range of is a whopping 900, meaning you can outrange many of the other enchanter's heals and shields. Even the prime healer is about 1/4th too short of range

is quite useful as well, it slows enemies for 50% for 2 seconds and reduces their resistances by 15% for 4 seconds, the slow can help immensely during skirmishes and while the resistances shred is not huge, it can also help a fair bit.

Both these abilities don't have much mana cost and in fact they share the same mana expenditure at each rank from level 1 to level 5, both going from 70 to 90 mana at level 1 to level 5. Though I still recommend to not spam them early on before you get your main core item, specially as the healing level 1 is not great, and even with only 70 mana you should avoid using it until lvl 2, is a bit more worth to use it since that slow helps more than the heal at early levels.

is not as useful as the rest of Kayle's kit especially support since you won't be buying damage, the poke isn't much at any moment that an enemy is over 50% HP, but it is ranged and has 0 mana cost so you can use it to proc on an enemy from a safe range, or help you proc also from a distance. Also since it counts as autoattack reset it helps to charge up your passive for more movement speed or to kill a ward quickly, so is less for helping an ally and more for helping yourself.

Finally can singlehandedly win a fight if the circumstances are on point. Its 2.5 second of instantaneous invulnerability at the right moment can make the whole enemy team to waste their entire kit with no consequence to your team. If you compare it to Taric's ultimate you'll notice that not only it is faster to use, but it has less CD and Mana cost after lvl 2. The only downgrade is that Kayle's ultimate is single target so you need to really know who to use it on, most people think the main gimmick of Kayle Support is this ability but it's not the main focus, it helps a ton but your job is to heal slow and shred.

Why no damage though?

You might be thinking that you should go regular AP for huge heals and such, but doesn't scale well with AP, only 25% and 8% on the movement speed, plus the resistance shred does not scale with AP either. More importantly is that going damage instead of utility leaves you way too squishy, you end up dying more and end up helping less overall.
Something noteworthy to think about is the idea that you trade your own power to add power to an ally, since your allies can make a great use of your entire kit it feels like you have added your own kit on an ally's kit while they still keep their own.

Ok but what's with the summoners dude?

You might think these summoner spells are the dealbreaker but honestly Support Kayle doesn't make great use of many of them.

The big one is "Why no Flash?", this is due to the gameplay style this guide promotes: you are a tanky healer not a fighter or squishy assassin. The two main uses of is to chase or escape, and this is not needed when playing Kayle Support. As you do not have the damage to kill enemies easily so flashing in makes no difference, and on the other hand if an enemy is chasing to kill you and you flash, if they believe they can kill you, they will flash as well, leaving you on the same position as if you hadn't flashed at all. Moreover, your tankiness means you can often survive these chases without needing to flash at all.

Now for the rest, for one can argue that the wounds can be achieved by buying a mere 800 gold item and the extra damage might be achieved by landing your on an enemy champion. feels useless due to your natural movement speed boost from your passive and W. is selfish as you only help yourself.

Cleanse is a decent option if the enemy has a lot of crowd control, especially if they have Seraphine, as the presence of cleanse in your kit can often prevent her from ulting. However, this option is more situational compared to your regular Heal and Exhaust.

Heal and Exhaust are your main tools, as they provide significant protection and healing for your team while weakening the enemy, also your healing power also increases Heal's power. Rarely will you find a need for anything else.

Runner

Pure protection

Guardian

Guardian is why you're going Resolve. The best protective keystone for enchanters without much poke power. Plus you don't really get much of anything if you go Sorcery tree.

Demolish

Demolish helps you take structures down faster and is more reliable than Font of Life.

Second Wind

Second Wind helps grant nice survivability against poke matchups, while Bone Plating helps you survive engage or burst matchups. Pick accordingly.

Revitalize

Revitalize makes the healing better. You will pick it pretty much every single game.

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Magical Footwear

Magical Footwear's boots are better than regular boots and give you 300 gold for free.

Cosmic Insight

Cosmic Insight makes you able to use your items and summoner spells quicker after you already used them.

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Ability Haste, Scaling Health, and Flat Health

Haste for heals, and Scaling with Flat HP to survive better at most points in the game. Tenacity if you think you wil need it.

Inspiration

Many of the runes focus on enhancing utility and offers unique ways to gain advantages outside of pure combat stats. However while many of these runes may sound appealing on paper, only a few truly benefit Kayle's playstyle in practice.
Lets go analyze each one of these ok:

is not necessarily bad on Kayle alone, but it is a rune that requires a lot of use until it is actually impactful. But regardless, the main key factor is that it shares the rune slot with , which simply outclasses it.

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main appeal for many of the champions that use it is the level up potion at lvl 9, but that is a mere third of the rune. The two thirds are rarely useful at all, specially on Kayle Support. The only advantage you get from this rune is an extra 6% slow at lvl 9. Not enough to pick it over other options.

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sounds good in theory as it just means more instant healing, just what Kayle does already, more is better right? Issue here is that once again it competes with runes that are just better, and everything around this rune has been nerfed over time.

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was once vital for Kayle Support, providing much-needed mana and stronger healing than potions, and with , it allowed for some great baiting plays. However, after multiple nerfs and Kayle no longer having mana issues, it is not worth picking anymore.

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might seem ideal for Kayle at first. More Ability Haste and adaptive power from your items sounds like it fits perfectly with her scaling. However, the rune forces you to adjust your build in a way that limits your item choices, making it less flexible than other options.

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Domination

offers a lower CD for your ultimate that scales with the more unique champions you kill, but I don't think this is a big and needed impact. Your ultimate will most likely be up again when big fights happen and you have plenty of other tools to keep your allies alive even without this rune.

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And lastly, you don't really gain much from any other rune in this tree so it really is a big waste honestly.

It's all about the core

The core of everything is the core

Create Item Set

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What's most important here is that you have a choice for most situations and buying one is often enough for the whole game, however if the stars align and you get the chance, definitely go for 2.

Keep in mind however that while one more core item boosts your healing power, your mana regen will outclass your mana output at pretty much every moment. This is reserved only for those games where you are confident that you are tanky enough as you miss one extra slot for another tank item.
Speaking of:

Options

All of those are your main options that you will buy most games, if i'm in need of some armor I find that and is usually enough, if however there is no ally who can really shine with Knight's Vow I pick , this item having flat mana is unfortunate as you won't need it but is still a nice item for the passive.

Your starter items

As a healer you are naturally inclined to buy this item, better protection from your heals and a little boost for the damage they will do.

This combination of items should be your default first buy since it builds into any of the core items at your disposal so its hard to deviate from this, though if you find yourself without enough gold for both at the same time then you got a small choice. If the lane is passive without much action, or if the enemy has burst damage then get Ruby Crystal first, if on the other hand enemy has more sustained small damage then more mana regen for more heals is better.

In the case that you think rushing Frozen Heart is gonna be a good idea then you can buy this one instead for a first back, if you have the gold for it, else it's still good to get the components. Armor is akin of Ruby and flat mana is not very less useful than mana regen. Though keep in mind that rushing Frozen Heart is an extremely situational position you might not find yourself in ever.

Now we're talkin

This is your most important decision of the entire game, you got many variables to consider: Does your teammates like to teamfight a lot? Do you think you will stick to bot lane helping your ally marksman but still want to help from far away? Do the enemy have a lot of CC? Do the enemy like to dive in and fight close by?
Choose an item, or two, accordingly on which one you think will be the biggest factor of the game.

Moonstone is great for when there is constant teamfights as you can heal more people with each cast of . But it does not stay back if you get it early on and are stuck with only your ally marksman since the increased bounce healing goes to him anyway.It also has a nice synergy with for you to consider later.

This is my favorite item in the game, a semi global small Soraka ult + small Karthus ult in an area that also gives vision, lovely. Pick this one if you think the rest of your team needs a bit of push to get their way or if they are getting attacked by the enemy jungler at any moment, just make sure you are in the range of half the map away. It also makes for a nice "keep fighting" moment after a teamfight, if the enemy retreats but your team is still wounded, just use it on the floor and keep applying pressure. Also, if you time it just as your then you are golden.

This is the most difficult one to consider, back when this item was it was the single best item for Kayle. Better increased healing, much easier to charge, better stats all around. But now its like a very nerfed version of it and very difficult to use effectively. You can still get it, but the setup for it to be optimal requires a very specific set of conditions all happening at the same time.

I pick this item if the enemy botlane likes to go in and fight closeby, and likes to do it often, think Lucian matchup.
HOWEVER after thinking about it lately I do not think the item is worth it anymore. Will have to do more testing to say for sure but for now it stays in very situational.

Mikael's main appeal is the removal of CC, but also has a tiny heal on it, bet you didn't know that, how many people do you think actually buy Mikael? This one is very straightforward, pick this item if the enemy has a lot of CC or if they require a bit of CC to be able to deal big damage to you.

What might you want?

Locket is your main option among these regular options, the default item for tanky supports. A somewhat respectable shield that can save your allies in many situations, very straightforward. You will get this item most of the time.

A second favorite of mine, though not as strong as it used to be its still pretty nice. Allows you to implement your tankiness into your marked ally even more than before, excellent option if you have an ally who is doing well though not as good if your team is doing poorly.

This item is the prime option for surviving magical damage as the shield massive considering both the size of it and the availability of it in every fight. Pick this if they have threatening magical damage.

Spirit Visage's passive can somewhat help if the enemy has grievous wounds, though not entirely. Get this item if the enemy has wounds or has magical damage that is not as bursty to justify Kaenic instead.

Frozen Heart is a strong pick against lots of autoattackers that rely on attack speed, think Jinx for example. Also the extra mana can come in handy too if you are required to cast a lot of heals. Get this item if you are going against heavy AD autoattackers.

Banshee is a good pick if they have sneaky mage picks that need to catch you off-guard or picks that require to land one ability to then deliver their full combo onto you. Also the extra ap gives your heal a nice little boost as well. Pick this item if you need to block one single ability to better survive a champion.

Thornmail is your choice for grievous wounds as you are going tanky and you don't scale well with either , or . Get this item if you are against AD autoattackers that need to heal off you.

Jak'Sho is a nice option if the enemy has a lot of hybrid damage, or if you want to survive even more during teamfights. Get this if you want more general survivability.

This next part is a lenghty explanation to understand when to buy each core item. It is much more detailed than the previous general part but not entirely needed to play well, so I have decided to leave this part inside a spoiler just in case you want to skip it easily.

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How to choose your core

This is a very important thing to consider as picking the right core item is trickier than you might expect. You got 4 choices of varying quality, utility and gameplay aim, so knowing the strengths and weakness of each one is vital.

Once again, your options are as follows

There are many variables to consider for when you buy your core item like if your team is currently winning or not, if you have faith that your marksman ally will do a good job, if the enemy or ally team has a specific type of champion. Luckily all 4 of your core items build almost from the same build path, so you get plenty of time to consider it all.

In the future I expect to have a finished list with every single one of these variables and how they influence in your choice but as of right now, all I have is the main strength and weakness of the items and a very very small list of like 3 considerations for when to buy them.

So now I will start by talking about the items for a while, in more detail than in the previous section.

Breaking down the core

Moonstone Renewer is likely to become your default item due to its consistently reliable healing. As long as you have at least one ally around, it will always be active, ensuring you can support your team no matter the situation. It doesn't require you to do anything extra to get the healing rolling, making it an easy pick for consistent, all-around support. This makes it a great option for any game where you need dependable, passive healing throughout the match.

However, its downside is that it lacks the versatility of other healing items. While it's great for general healing, it doesn’t offer much in terms of added utility or burst healing. It doesn't help you turn the tide in a fight like other items might, and it scales more into the late game, meaning it's a bit weaker in the early stages when the action can be more intense.

+Consistent healing increase all around

+Just as helpful with few and many allies

+Heal increase scales well into late game

The main appeal of Moonstone Renewer is its reliability, offering consistent passive healing throughout the game without requiring extra effort to activate. It's a straightforward item that does exactly what you want: you heal stronger. Whether in the early or late game, as long as you have an ally nearby, its extra healing power will always be active, providing steady support through fights and ensuring you're constantly contributing to your team's sustain.

-Not as specialized one way or the other.

-Only increases your direct healing power

-Scaling is tied to your own healing

The main drawback of Moonstone Renewer is its lack of additional utility outside of healing. While this might seem less impactful since its consistent healing always applies, the item is more one-dimensional compared to others that bring extra benefits like damage or utility. Though it scales well into the late game, it still remains a pure healing item, and doesn’t offer the versatility that can be crucial in some situations.

Redemption offers immense versatility, allowing you to heal allies from great distances while still being able to attack enemies, all while providing vision within the same area. It can be used to react when enemies try to burst down an ally if you are quick enough, or to heal your entire team and minions after a fight, giving you stronger presence for the next push.

On the flip side, the healing can take a moment to kick in, so you'll need to be mindful of positioning and timing to make sure your allies are within range when the healing happens. If your team is scattered or caught in the heat of battle, you might miss the opportunity to maximize its impact

+Burst of AoE healing and damage

+Gives vision for the full duration

+Huge gigantic range

Redemption's main strength is its wide range of uses and situations. Healing an ally from half the map away should be enough to consider it. Add in the vision control to check if Baron’s being taken, dealing damage to enemies if they’re in the area, or even finishing off a low-health enemy who's trying to back, and you’re left with an item that has high impact in multiple scenarios.

-Takes a little time for the effect to happen

-Respectable 90 second timer between uses

-Allies can move outside the healing area very easily

It might not look like it, but using Redemption well takes a bit of skill and trust that your allies will realize they’re about to get healed, which doesn’t always happen. Often, your allies might walk out of the healing area for no reason or get knocked out by enemies themselves, so it requires good timing and coordination to truly maximize its potential.

Echoes of Helia's unique mechanic encourages more active participation in fights, rather than healing first and attacking later your focus is the other way around for a small burst of both. At full charges, which doesn't sound too hard to get, you heal 130 extra and do 100 damage to the nearest enemy. Now this item sounds like bread and butter, and back when it was Athenes it was the perfect item for Kayle, however nowadays it’s not as good and is more situational, requiring a set of specific conditions to be optimal.

1- You need an enemy close to charge it up.
2- You need an ally nearby who needs extra healing.
3- You need an enemy nearby to damage after healing.
4- Your allies must prioritize healing over movement speed.

While the item can be very effective when all of the above conditions are met, it requires a more active and careful playstyle. The best time to use it is during the lane phase when you have the safety of your allies and the opportunity to engage with enemies at a manageable distance. Lane phase is particularly important for this item since the flat values of healing and damage don’t scale, making it more impactful in the early game when the numbers are most relevant.

Once the game moves past this phase, it becomes much harder to reliably charge Echoes of Helia, and the item’s benefits become less impactful in the chaotic environment of teamfights.

+Small burst of healing and damage

+Good for quick short fights

+Synergy with offensive play, ally or enemy

Echoes of Helia can offer plenty of utility when all the pieces fall into place, rewarding quick trades and burst windows during lane phase. The flat 130 extra healing is a big deal early on, and while the 100 damage isn’t game-changing, it adds free value to your heals. Most importantly, early levels naturally provide the perfect setup. Enemies are close, allies stay near you, and your W gets used mostly for healing instead of movement speed. The item shines best here, where its rigid conditions happen without needing to force them, letting you turn early fights around with surprising sustain and bonus damage.

-Not spammable enough

-Requires multiple conditions to be effective

-Limits the use of your W

The main problem with Helia is how hard it becomes to use properly as the game progresses. The item needs you to charge it through autos, but Kayle’s range early on puts you at risk, and post-laning enemies are harder to reach safely. You also need to spend the charges just right. On allies that need healing and don’t expect movement speed. Near enemies that can be damaged. All while trying not to waste anything. Outside of lane phase those ideal moments are rare and difficult to set up. And with the game speeding up more each season, the flat values of Helia quickly lose impact compared to more reliable or passive options.

Mikael's Blessing's main gimmick is removing CC from an ally, or even yourself if needed. On top of that, it provides an immediate 250 heal, making it a strong reactive tool against teams that rely on lockdowns to secure kills. While its impact might not be as consistent as other healing-focused items, its ability to instantly free an ally from a bad situation can potentially be gamechanging.

Though it has to be noted that this is perhaps the most situational item in the game, requiring enough enemy CC to justify the purchase. On top of that, it demands precise timing and quick reactions to maximize its value. Combined with its lack of consistency, this makes it a high-risk, varying-reward option compared to more reliable healing items.

+Small immediate healing on the target

+Removes CC that apply in a 0.2 seconds timer frame

+Can be used on yourself in emergencies

Mikael's Blessing offers an immediate way to counter enemy CC, giving you the ability to quickly free your ally or yourself from dangerous crowd control. The 250 heal can also turn the tide in critical moments, letting you save an ally when they’re about to be locked down or even secure a quick escape for yourself. Its ability to shift the momentum in teamfights makes it a strong reactive tool, great for countering CC-heavy compositions or saving a carry from being burst down.

-Requires Skill and Timing

-Highly situational

-You cannot use it if you are under the effects of specific CC

Mikael's Blessing requires a lot of skill and perfect timing to make the most of its potential. It's highly situational and only truly shines when the enemy team has enough CC to justify using it rather than simply healing through the effects. If there’s not enough CC or you’re not quick enough with the reaction, the item can end up being a wasted pick, making it feel unreliable in certain situations. Moreover, if you're already under specific CC effects, you can't use it on anyone, limiting its usefulness in crucial moments.

The specific scenarios where each item will become priority

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This section is intended for an extensive list of situations that add points of priority to each core item, maybe some that remove points without favoring any other specifically, but as of right now I don't have such list.
All I have is 7 scenarios, not enough for what I have in mind, but nonetheless i'm gonna share it right now.
This section is going to be a proper work in progress eventually, but for now here are 7 variables for your item of choice:

Currently small list of variables to consider

Which items to avoid

Which items I do not recommend and why

This section is gonna be lengthy as I am going to explain in more detail every item that might sound like a good idea but isn't, so feel free to skip this section if you don't think you need this information.

Not good options

While items like these might sound like a good idea, I have found that they are just not good enough. The classic enchanter items are probably your idea of what Kayle Support looks like, with big healings due to the amount of healing power, but in reality it leaves you in a fragile and risky situation. Yes you heal for a lot more but it only takes one Grevious Wounds item to completely deny you.
Items aiming to increase your solo utility, like Rylai or Malignance might sound enticing but I don't think they are worth it, your Q slows already and your ultimate is not your main focus, so trying to better these aspects seems like a trap.

Each item in more detail

Celestial opposition makes sense on paper if you are playing as a tank, more defenses is better right? The issue is that Dream Maker is too good to consider any other option, and even if you do find yourself in a situation where you do need that extra tankiness instead of better healings, like if the enemy team is full of assassins for example, tests have shown that the protection of Celestial Opposition just does not do nearly enough to be worth it.

I feel like this item is bait, simply said, it gives you AP and movement speed which you don't really need, since your heal doesn't scale very well with AP and you move quite fast without it. The main appeal of this item is the passive which gives you and your healed ally extra attack speed and 20 magic damage per auto attack.}

I don't think this passive on yourself is gonna do wonders considering your role in the team, you might do about 100 extra damage per fight or so, which leaves your ally marksman. At early levels specially I don't think that the passive on your ally is gonna be the dealbreaker on trades, though its difficult to test this at the moment so it might need more testing. I would say that you can get better items than this one.

Staff of Flowing Water feels very situational to even be considered, you'd want a team that scales well with AP, which is not ideal for team composition. If you don't have an ally marksman that has an AP scalig ability then it is wasted on them, but you still get the AP for yourself, so what can you do with it?
Passive attack speed is too small to make a difference, assuming your autoattacks did a difference to begin with. Your Q gets an extra 18 damage, your E gets an extra 9 damage, your W in theory gets an extra 11 healing if it weren't for the fact that the item passive only lasts for 4 seconds, meaning you cannot use the extra AP for your healing as you need to heal to activate the extra AP.

In all regards this item is even worse than Ardent Censer, but something extra to consider on both of these items is that these buffs are more aligned to yourself in theory rather than your allies, and the gameplay that comes from these items is an offensive style, since if you heal from a position where you can't fight for the duration then the passive is completely wasted and thus mentally forces you to start healing for offensive situations rather than for protective situations as you would usually do.

Shurelya's battlesong is often bought for Kayle for some reason, but it has no real use for you, the AP is not needed, the Ability Haste is too small to consider, the passive movement speed is not needed either. The reason you buy Shurelya is to speed up your team, which you can do with Trailblazer or much cheaper with an Elixir of Iron .
In short, this item gives you nothing of what you want other than mana regen and AH, which you can get from better items.

Dawncore is the quintesencial item for enchanters, as it gives healing power according to your mana regen, which every enchanter item gives also. But considering that it needs mana regen to do better thus rushing it does not do enough, and the fact that Kayle has little mana issues so you won't usually buy more than one mana regen item. Getting this item is a bad choice for Kayle.

Spirit Visage was in your option for items because I assumed the passive made your heals on allies work better, but as it turns out, the passive only works on heals on yourself, not heals that you do onto others.

Rylai's Crystal Scepter might seem like a good utility item for its slowing passive, but it falls short for Kayle Support. Your Q already slows effectively, making the additional slow redundant. While it’s possible to proc the passive using your [E (Starfire Spellblade)] auto-attacks or the splashes from your passive waves, this is highly situational due to your low attack speed and the need to prioritize assisting your team over attacking.
The extra HP and AP are lacking for your role as you can find better items that help your team more and give you similar stat values. Ultimately, the item fails to deliver enough value or impact to justify buying it.

Malignance may seem like a strong option for Kayle, offering 85 AP, Ability Haste, flat mana, and even extra AH for your ultimate, along with area-of-effect damage when your ult hits enemies. While 85 AP is a solid amount, it’s not quite enough to make a significant impact on your healing or damage. The item’s overall utility doesn’t align well with Kayle's needs. Your mana issues can be effectively managed with a single mana regen item, so the flat mana from Malignance doesn’t add much value. The extra AH for your ultimate sounds good, but early in the game, you won't often find yourself in situations where you need your ult urgently, making the passive less useful. In the late game, your ultimate’s cooldown is reduced enough that this passive becomes almost.

Ultimately, despite the appealing stats, Malignance and Rylai both fall short of offering enough value for Kayle. They are too selfish for her kit and don’t provide the necessary utility to justify their purchase.

While these items may initially seem appealing, the issues outlined make them less than ideal for Kayle’s playstyle. There are much better alternatives to consider from the previous section.

That said, even some of the items I do recommend should be chosen with caution, like Helia or Mikael. They too require specific conditions to truly make an impact.

Little tricky ain't it?

To play Support Kayle efficiently you need to experience it many times, figure out what items work with what comp, figure out how much you can survive against each enemy, figure out if your team as a whole is worth focusing your help on or only your ally marksman. There are many little tricks and synergies from your kit and the items you choose, so experiment around.

But what do you DO?

Early

In the early game, your goals are to

Survive first and foremost
Try to get poked on purpose so the enemy wastes mana pointlessly
Use Celestial Blessing when you both have low health

Survive: Kayle Support is too squishy before your first back, try not to get caught or poked too much that enemy can then kill you quickly. That can lead to an unfortunate snowball from the enemy team, just get in there enough and only enough. You don't have the damage to keep poking them with E or the mana regen to do constant small trades with Q, so don't waste your resources unless you have a good reason.

Don't just stay back the entire time however: You still want to be of use despite your fragility, be it active utility or just with the threat of being there. You don't want to stay under tower and heal at every opportunity, that will only lead you to your defeat.

Bait the enemy to focus you: As with your mana, your health is also a resource, if you don't see the bar filling up then you are not using it correctly. What you want during lane phase is for the enemy to attack you and waste their resources on you, then back off for a while to recover. You recover your health faster than they recover mana in most cases, so it's not much of an issue.

Get the most use from your heal: is a dual healing, that means that if you use it when only one target needs the healing you are wasting half of its potential. Only heal when you both need it, and a little surprise, you already started setting this up. Once the enemy uses their poke on you and you fall back, they are only in range to attack your ally marksman, wasting even more resources with even less consequence as they are attacking a full health target. I like to heal only when we both are below 50% health for maximum efficiency, not that the % health matters really.

Bait even more: Kayle Support has a misleading amount of heal that the enemy team constantly underestimates, they will constantly think they can all-in and kill you at many points of the game. How wrong they are. If you are brave enough you can go in and receive some damage, then lead them to your team or tower and watch them die while you survive all of it, with your , your and your , if you are lucky also your ally marksman's , surviving any kind of dive will be a piece of cake.

What you really want in this phase of the game is survive, don't mind the constant poke that is a good thing, you will end up with more mana and health eventually. You can also try to bait them into trying to kill you only to then die themselves due to underestimating how much you can survive. But don't overestimate how much you can survive either, is a lot but not a ton.

Mid

As the laning phase ends, so does your role as a single target healer.

Group with the team
Use Celestial Blessing to speed allies to locations
Save up your Radiant Blast more than your Celestial Blessing
Peel off your squishier teammates
Try to time up your Divine Judgement so you can make the enemy waste the most resources

Damage is low priority: At this point you lose most of your damage, so try not to focus on that. However since you are tanky that doesn't mean you can't do any, your durability allows you to survive the damage they throw back at you, so use that to keep applying pressure and chip away at them without worrying too much about getting punished.

Don't be stingy with your abilities: At this point with your core item finished, you should have enough mana regen to constantly spam your heal and slow with little consquence. Try to keep your team near full health before fights, also a little trick that I like doing is using Celestial Blessing not for the heal, but rather for the movement speed to get my allies faster to an objective for example.

Stick with your allies: Your utility range is huge, your fighting range not so much, so during fights you should stay an average distance from everyone, close enough to help but not close enough to get hit easily. As opposed to laning phase where you wanted to receive damage to create an advantageous situation, now you want to react to their attempts to kill your team.

Use your items quickly: If you have Redemption or Locket you might want to use them when an enemy champion goes in before the rest of his team can catch up, since by the time they do catch up your team might be in a dire situation and thus protect them from a huge portion of the danger. Though sometimes it is wise to save up redemption for after a fight is over and you are pushing into their towers to heal the minions as well and get more objectives.

Save your Divine Judgement for just the right moment: will save one single person for 2.5 seconds so it is important to know when the enemy will over extend on that singular person to kill them fast. If you time it right you can waste many ultimates and summoner spells from the enemy with only a singular cost to your team. It is not only important to know when to use it, but also on who. You should focus your attention on the ally who has the most power for the teamfight rather than just your marksman in every fight.

In this phase you want to keep your team healthy, go around the map helping any teammates that need it, redemption allows this from half the map away and moonstone allows you to heal more people at a time. Save your teammates with Divine Judgement in teamfights and win em over. If you are caught you have an opportunity to survive the punishment the enemy sends your way and lead them to a bad situation where your team has the advantage, don't worry much if you die as you will trade 1 life for possibly 3 or more, they WILL focus you as they only see a squishy out of position Kayle.

Here's a little trick: Locket has a decaying shield but moonstone extra shield does not decay, you can also proc up to 4 extra non-decaying little shields on top of each other if every ally is in range of each other.

Late

Your roles from mid-game remain, but as your items and AH increase and your mana costs decrease, so too does your impact

In fights, you should basically never stop casting your spells
Nothing else to discuss
Just do your usual things
That's how you win the game

Manipulate Movement Speed: With the relative lowest mana cost at any point in the game you can start spamming Celestial Blessing just for the movement speed, healing becomes kind of a secondary effect. But that's not saying you don't heal a respectable amount anymore, just that you are no longer limited to healing first.

Max level is not the goal: Kayle Support is not a scaling champion, once you get lvl 13 and have your Q at max level you only have one more power-up, at level 16 your passive is maxed out which means you move faster at all times and your ultimate lowers its mana cost to 0. Its a fine upgrade but reaching this point is not vital at all, you can absolutely be just as relevant with a couple levels lower.

So what is this really all about?

For a long time now I have been playing Kayle Support on my own, guided only by a few individuals who have more experience than me, and I guess I wanted to share the word of this fantastic build. Even better now that this last patch lowered W's mana cost a huge ton and it opened so many possibilities, like starting to use it for movement speed rather than healing, it was never possible before but now there is more leniency for it. This single change absolutely broke Kayle in my opinion.

I have tried to share it with little effort before, like firsthanded experience by playing with random people, maybe they'll look at it and think of giving it a go some day. Or sharing some of my clips with some league streamers, this guy absolutely loves it when I show it to him. This other streamer also got to experience the ridiculous heal and survival ability that Kayle has, but this clip is not from my own gameplay.

I can't write, i'm not a writer I can barely speak properly, but I decided to finally give it a go with writting a mobafire guide since the last patch arrived, so here it is, got some help from a teacher and a friend who showed me how to have a proper organization and this is the result.

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Changelog

08/November/2024:

-First published.
-Edited further to make it look better.

01/January/2025:

-Added a quick reminder before the guide begins.
-Prepared to start updating for more details.

05/January/2025:

-Finished up a rough base for the items that I do not recommend.

04/February/2025:

-Fixed a line position.

12/February/2025:

-Changed name of the guide.
-Added a sample of champion in "Ok" section of the synergy part.

23/February/2025:

-Expanded on the choice of your core item.
-Started a basic small list of variables for choosing even further.
-Passed 75 thousand characters.
-The word Kayle is properly colored.

26/February/2025:

-Fixed most typos.
-Better coloring for the stages of the game.

18/April/2025:

-Adjusted the items a bit.
-Changed the description of the runes.
-Moved the section of more details of core items into a spoiler inside the section of items in general.

Paladin of Purity: The Righteous Guide to Kayle Support

Paladin of Purity: The Righteous Guide to Kayle Support

Recommended Items

Runes: Against poke

Spells:

Exhaust

Heal

Cleanse

Heal

Items

Ability Order Against healer support

Divine Ascent (PASSIVE)

Radiant Blast (Q)

Celestial Blessing (W)

Starfire Spellblade (E)

Divine Judgment (R)

Divine Ascent (PASSIVE)

Radiant Blast (Q)

Celestial Blessing (W)

Starfire Spellblade (E)

Divine Judgment (R)

Threats & Synergies

Lulu

Xerath

Lux

Seraphine

Karma

Leona

Nautilus

Orianna

Pyke

Sivir

Thresh

Soraka

Bard

Brand

Zilean

Senna

Kalista

Nilah

Xayah

Draven

Vayne

Aphelios

Ezreal

Kai'Sa

Miss Fortune

Samira

Senna

Twitch

Kalista

Nilah

Xayah

Draven

Vayne

Aphelios

Ezreal

Kai'Sa

Miss Fortune

Samira

Senna

Twitch

Champion Build Guide

Paladin of Purity: The Righteous Guide to Kayle Support

A Quick Reminder before starting

Nothing of interest

Pros

Cons

Your holy protector

A guardian angel

Why no damage though?

Ok but what's with the summoners dude?

Pure protection

The core of everything is the core

How to choose your core

The specific scenarios where each item will become priority

Which items I do not recommend and why

But what do you DO?

If you want to discuss this build with me or some other folks, or some other unrelated off-meta build as well, come join this discord server.

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