"Tryndamere my old friend *Gray screen*" this is the true Kayle experience

Just imagine, an ultimate skin for kayle that every evolution she gets, she become more closer to what her mother looks like

the second Nicky walked into the jungle at the start of the game I was wondering if we were about to have another Katerina incident lol

Oh boy, I bet NickyBoi has a lot of good stuff to say about my favourite champion :D Jokes aside, what I liked about Kayle prior to her rework was that she was a mediocre lane bully that grew more powerful because of her inherent synergy with item scaling. There was a point that I jokingly referred to as the "level 10 power spike," which was when old Transcendence gave you 10% CDR, your E was at max level, and you typically had the two components of Nashor's Tooth (Stinger + Codex) that gave you 20% CDR. With this combined 30% CDR at level 10, Kayle's E was now constantly up. Prior to that, there was a cooldown window where it wasn't up, making her extremely vulnerable in the early game _but_ not outright helpless. So when Riot announces this rework, they miss the mark of her having variable power in the early game completely. Instead, they frontload everything onto her passive, something that the player has zero control over. Instead of feeling like I properly managed the early game to get myself into a more powerful state later in the game, now it just feels like I'm watching the clock, waiting to get to level 11 to become relevant. Secondly, when I picked out this champion when I first started playing this game, I picked her because a fully armoured, [largely] anonymous angel with a flaming sword sounded like the coolest f--king design ever. With the update to her lore, she could have been more in that direction as well, but instead they put her into purple spandex and took away the anonymity, making her more human than ever before. I'll still play her occasionally to this day because she's a comfort pick for me, but my God did the VGU miss the mark.

Ah yes let’s give her less armor the stronger she becomes. What’s next? Making Lewis’s voice higher pitch the higher level he is?

I will say when all questions of morality can be posed on kayle, I like how LoR sort of gives a new context. The sort of ABSOLUTE JUSTICE OF HEAVENS kayle preaches can come off as absurd when it comes to humanity but fighting darkin who we can say rather definitively there isn't much room for remorse or change at least not at current moment for them, having this sword of heaven which just will wipe them out to protect the world is more justified in world of runterra where some things are just monsters that need to be stopped otherwise world can end at any moment

Kayle losing Armor over Time ist just like if Cho'gath would get smaller the more Healt he has.

Now if she actually got a golden disk/ring covering her eyes when she levels up and throws the helmet away...that would be cool. Like she would embody the concept of a blind justice. Also make her fuse with armor, fuse the sword instead of splitting it, and then you get somewhat good design, mind you her armor still looks bad, but at least it would work

Watching Kayle go from knight woman to winged beauty to weird wing creature to spinny wheel with eyes and wings would be the coolest shit ever

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Kayle was the very first Champion I ever played when I started in 2014 cause I was also stuck with the freebies they handed out until you got to a certain level... She was extremely fun and interesting to build then with the items available then. Then her rework came and just... ugh. Her design; worse than before... If she's rejecting her humanity why is she exposing herself with less and less armor as she ascends???? (Something something terrible fanservice). Her gameplay makes her suffer extremely early on and to say she is the definition of snowball is an understatement, she IS the snowball incarnate. I will mourn old Kayle forever. I'd say she also has a bit of the same problem as Katarina in her hybrid building; she does the same thing no matter if you build full AD, AP or try to hybrid. edit: "Well how can we make her look more powerful while removing her sense of Humanity in her design as a powerful angel?" Allow me to represent exhibit A: The ANgels in the Diablo franchise.

Honestly, I have another take on how to make Kayle seem less human and more "divine" (or monstruous, let's say): Remove her helmet at 6, her armor at 11, and at 15 strip her from anything that resembles a person other than her sillhouette (think like a human body made entirely of light - no eyes, no mouth, no nose, just a little reminder that she was a person before becoming something... more). THERE, and it still keeps the sillhouette to make new skins.

To me, Kayle becoming more human and not less as she gains in power makes sense because it demonstrates the hypocrisy that she herself is blind to. It's a literal manifestation of proof that the Aspect of Justice must be human on some level, yet she is completely and totally blind to it.

It should've been reversed. She starts out more naked and she should've gained more armor rhe more.she levels ffs riot

Absolutely, Her formar design was Badass AF.

new nicky video = dropping everything

I miss her old kit and the armor. She looked way better like that

I like that every time I’m having lunch at college on a Friday Nickyboi always gives me something to watch

0:53 "I hate Ranged top laners" My brother in Demacia, you become one.(which in gameplay storytelling makes sense, it would be more effective to put such pressure at a distance if you could even if it takes away what makes overcoming adversity so meaningful, part of her problem is her kit being too split apart instead of fitting her, I despise her ultimate as a hypercarry cannot and should not have utility or that much as a cost of being so powerful)

i love how he forgot to talk about the skins

I think best in between between androgynous armor and ascending angel would be her getting wings or some type of blinders over her eyes. A blind justice if you will

10:25 or does she want to look like biblical accurate angel...? I mean, afaIk, in current lore (like in "Xolaani shenanigans didn't happen yet if we consider LoR canon") last time Kayle saw/heard about her mother, it was before she retired to "heaven", when she was still this humanoid shining, heroic figure bringing justice to wrong doers all over Runeterra So in this way, if she wants to be like her mother...she'll try to be like her formal form, the humany one, which she is pretty close to currently

I liked Kayle more when the ranged attack was an empowered form. I played Kayle because she reminded me of Terrorblade from DOTA 2: a character specifically balanced around having a super-powered ranged form. But now Kayle just... is ranged? And she only gets her power spike at level 16.

My bet is : "Point of evolution - not to distance from humanity, but to be more like Morgana despite her beliefs" and as visual storytelling this works wonders, but her actual story state is narrative limbo, because Genre demands (it's like Yasuo can't stop being unforgiven ( but everyone forgave him long ago), cause it's his whole idea) same here visuals team gives her endpoint where she accepts her sister and does actual justice for a change, but she has to stay Zealot for plot convience of more important characters. So no her visual is great it's just reflects her story in oposite direction.

I honestly like her now, but man I really wanted her in armor.

My thing is that the whole "more armor = less human" thing is very "face value" in terms of interpretation. When humans want to be seen as something, usually due to insecurity, they put things on and overall it's a sign of weakness. When you lose the emotional insecurity and think based only on logic, practicality, and cold hard truth, if your extra wardrobe is deemed to be less efficient or emotionally-charged, then you ditch it. Especially if you've transcended into total strength. I think they at least did the minimum of giving her the blank eyes.

100% agree, and T B Skyen is on the shallow part of the pool over there saying "but but less armor means it can't contain her hur dur"

Hope you're feeling better

I always saw the fact that she appears more human the stronger she becomes is because that's what is making her more powerful. Even unbenounced to her, taking over parts of Morgana's philosophy is what is making her a better aspect of justice.

I mean, dont biblically accurate angels LOSE armor the stronger the angel is? So her losing armor as she becomes more "divine" works in her favor. Her. mother endgames as the highest form of angel (seraphim) so kayle is on her way there right?

It pains me how dark the map was the entire game..

what if the swords can't fuse back together because now they belong to the two sides of justice that kayle and morgana represent? kayle using both swords doesn't mean kayle holding absolute justice

I think you could also argue that her losing her armor is her also removing her earthly possessions. Or even view it as a point of hypocrisy/irony that her "ascension" makes her look more human. Idk I think any way to view it mostly depends on what direction her story would ultimately end up going. If they want her story to be one that highlights hypocrisy or have a tragic irony, then it makes sense for her to end up looking more human. If her story sees her just becoming like her mother then it doesn't make sense for her to look human.

6:04 "He don't got this" *Cuts to lee being dead*

Kayle is my favorite champ for the past 3 years and ive played since season 3. Love the late game feeling. And she is good at 2 items, too. Doesnt need 16 to be useful, but i get ur point. I like how she feels like a glorified marksmen. I think Vayne has stronger 1v1 damage against tanks, but Kayle has more agency in the late game and can take out squisjier targets faster than ur normal hypercarry. Thanks for ur commentary

Just noticed that OG Kayle’s design would explain where Garen’s shoulder pads came from lol

Food for thought make her level 18 in a more divine creature. Cause if you ask me her lv 16 looks like she on the brink of fully ascending. So we can have our cake and eat it to. Then again that means more work for the design team as they have to add the divine form to all there skins.

I think that they should mix those two types of late game characters, by giving them the ability to gain stacks, but at certain levels it sets your stacks if they are too low to a reasonable level. Just seems hard to set that up.

I would really like it if both the swords fused together with her arms in her higher levels. Maybe getting rid of her legs too would make her feel more weightless and less human. I will say that I do really like the newer Kayle’s color scheme. The golden armor and those light blue wings with the hints of purple look really nice to me.

I remember when I started playing league and I played Kayle as support. I played every character as support back then

I like that Kayle gets more human the higher level she gets. To me it's a thing of no matter how much she tries to ditch her humanity it will always be apart of her. The more she tries to drive it away the more it forces itself back to her.

2 months late, but I want to point out that Kayle becoming progressively more human as she grows in power not only makes sense within the lore, but is in fact by far the best way to present her story in-game out of any I've heard among the fans. 1. Look at all the other aspects. They're _all_ human-looking. Champions like Pantheon and Leona and Diana are explicitly fully human, but even Zoe looks human enough despite not even really being human anymore. It's pretty clear that until they ascend to that celestial plane the aspects are meant to be human-looking, because they're meant to serve as human incarnations of the celestial, interacting with the human world. Kayle becoming less human as she grows closer to becoming the full aspect of Justice would be going against all the precedent we have. 2. Kayle's "I will cast off all human emotion" thing is a hypocritical, emotional decision she made in the heat of the moment, as a result of her inability to deal with and process her grief and regret. It's not meant to be idolized or seen as the right path to power, and the further she progresses towards becoming like her mother the more Kayle ought to realise this, and the more she ought to grow not just in terms of pure firepower but also as a character, shedding the childish, immature idea that the aspect of Justice should be inhuman and unfeeling, which the armor directly reflects. Neither Kayle nor her mother nor the other aspects are, nor should they be, akin to biblical angels. Their lore is fundamentally different, and their appearance should reflect that, even if biblically accurate Kayle would look metal and should probably have been a skin.

So I'm at 10:32 and from what you have said so far, how I am interpreting how the powers work, kayle's base form is weaker than her mom's base form, so when she evolves she is now on par with her mom, so that's why she looks human/like her mother. That's what I'm getting at least.

You make BIG missunderstandings in some parts of this video, so as Kayle enjoyer who read all her lore+researched AMA from Winged Sisters Lore writer, I want clarify them. --- It is not mentioned if rioters were from Ronas side or some other side. Also Kayle not wanted burn entire city, it is clearly stated she wanted to cleanse city of sins(prob rioters that made violence that is also mentioned in an end when she thinks about father death). She can control her fire to make it not touching innocents(it is clearly shown in her league/LoR abilities and also in her color story "In The Fires Of Justice where she also casted her fire on entire kingdome ruled by tyrant king, and it is burned king and his servants that made opression, but not touched innocents. The reason why Morgana met her is probaly because she thought that some rioters could be changed with her ways or there were diffirent reasons, it is unclear. Their father died not from Kayle fire(that you also like to portrait but she loved her father((SHE EVEN CRIED BECAUSE OF HIS DEATH that is mentioned in Canticle Of Winged Sisters)) and he was not guilty so it makes no sence), but from some collateral damage strike of their fight. It could be even Morgana strike that caused it. ---- You say Kayle is prob not as powerful as other aspects but she actually for sure would be more powerful than Leona, Diana and Taric(they have troubles fighting even each other and some not that strong void beings in case of Diana iirc), while Kayle was able to fight with non-world ender Aatrox twice and second form Xolaani, as well as just collateral damage of her full power destroyed whole buildings during her duel againist Morgana, and in this time she was much weaker. --- Kayle not becoming more human, armor being equalised to being aspect actually makes less sence than vise versa, as armor is needed when you cant protect yourself without it. Even Morgana tell to Garen "The ones who wear armor fear death, and that a lot of armor" or something like that, I think it makes sence for her to loose some armor. Not to mention it matches other targonian aspects design(Diana, Leona, Taric also combine clothes and armor, actually compared to first and third ones she is MORE armored and kinda equal with Leona). And I also think having big amount of armor could create problems for fly. But to be completly fair I think best option for her would be cntrl 5 with ability to toggle helmet at all levels, something like Kaisa. --- Also what is important here to mention is that her deny emotions is not final point of her ideology. She blamed emotions for terrible events of her duel againist Morgana, opposite to Morgana who choose to blame celestial powers. It is method for them to cope and justify themselves in this events, even when they both know it was wrong. But in LoR apperance we see Mihira not being really againist emotions, and Kayle act much more emotional(both in voice and in quotes), as well as not having quotes about denying emotions. --- Kayle fusing sword into one is not working as other half of blade belong to Morgana, and yes, Morgana is still other part of aspect of justice, the compassionate one. And Mihira clearly cares about both and see best in ways of both, so I think she still plan to make them work together later, so the sword is still divided to have Morgana part.

Nicholas "From my point of view the Jedi are evil" Boi

Was a Kayle main in 2021 but have since relegated her to an occasional pick in ARAM

Wouldn't it makes more sense if you played shadow assassin Kayn next week and Rhaast with the R champions to get both sides of the champion?

to be fair, during that game you also had realy good? or fed teammates who could survive a strong tryndamere. and also something about toplane relevancy idk i play bard

Although I agree with Nicky's opinion on Kayle's Design, I honestly prefer the idea that maybe as she grows stronger... She fails to understand that she is just like her family, a human being and a mere vessel to a power. That power blinded her and made her think that as she grows stronger is that she us getting close to being a god but instead is slowly revealing herself to end up looking more human.

Oh boi, the time is coming, next champion is kayn let’s goo

Visually i want them to just take the current but swap everything but the wings and becoming more gold. Start with two swords and little armor in silver then end with one sword a full gold armor.

i think that maybe what they were going for with the two swords was representing she can wield the full power of both blades in the one sword kind of thing. maybe… riot??

classic kayle experience

next week play a game of raahst and a game of shadow kayn

I miss old aether wing kayle slap slap sfx 😔

That thumbnail art tho.

Eat your vegetables!!!!!!

you owe us a real katarina gameplay

oooh kilam. oooh. oooh ooooh kilam

You should make 2 separate videos ,1 for Kayn and 1 for Rhaast

I expect you talk about skins Specifically Sun eater, that make kayle look close like a biblical angel

So what if when she grows stronger she starts accepting both her sides , her humanity and the fact thats shes a aspect of justice hince the less armour and appearing more human

13:32 i want to mention, the first time i saw Hwei i didn't knew what gender he was

1:03 the on who does more bad, as I come to realise if you're trully responsible for actions that means you can change and do good, being called an evil thing suggest you can't and aren't responsible for your incompetence. Morgana shows(since they are similar enough functionally) she can that is why she is a person who does more bad than good, Good intentions terrible execution.(heh and also similar to her gameplay and character design basically everything and Ironically I agree with Nicky's title, she was more intersting then in her execution though with some flaws ofcourse, she's somehow worse now)

Im here waiting for the pentakill skin part

"Why does kayle remove her armor?" Riot: Sales. Marketing. Fan Service!

To be fair she wants to follow Mihira's footsteps she might turned into a biblical accurate angel and it would be weird wearing that armor

you forgot to talk about her skiiins

What if they gave her, like, a blindfold? Like the statues of justice with the scales? Justice is blind and all that.

The "she should get more armor as she gets stronger, it's backwards!" meme has never sat right with me, and the alternative you mention is the reason why. Kayle is already trying to hide or remove her humanity to begin with, having her start armored makes sense. And where she ends up, her "true form", shouldn't be just her doing the same thing but more, it should be her when she has no humanity left to hide, thus thematically no need for the armor. I much prefer the idea of the armor being a sort of "cocoon" for her metamorphosis into full on biblically accurate angel which she eventually bursts out of.

It was funny that back in the day, it was kinda obvious that Morgana was the evil twin. Then came the rework and they made Morgana have at least a pinch of "grey" morality where you can justify saying she neither good or evil, but they shitted all over the place with Kayle. There is no nuance on Kayle's aspect of justice to try and make an argument that she might be right in opposition to Morgana's ideals, she is a fully fledge amoral monster in the form of "righteous justice".

I thought her sword being split was to represent her schism with her sister and inability to understand that justice is not a 1 to 1 ratio.

Im hoping to the rock gods that we get pentakill chap 4 this year for worlds or at the very least next year, please

I will say in (mild) defense of her gameplay, half the reason you won was as you sometimes mentioned, the enemy Trynd throwing in an attempt to tilt you. I'm not necessarily a fan of it from a game design standpoint, but I wouldn't call how Kayle works 'unfair'. If she's really behind as you were she actually super isn't worth all-ing for. You play into Kayle by playing around her, go fast and don't commit to hard to the character who isn't very important yet (unless you can zone her off farming entirely, I guess.) It's still not good design, of course, but it is 'fair', it just isn't very fun.

Didn't expect alot of people not liking reworked Kayle. Me personally, this rework is an improvement over the old Kayle.

I like her design, tbh yeah its a bit generic ngl, but i really like how she has this lore that she is human and for me atleast i hope she reconciles with Morgana and they both ascend together. I dont want her to look like an actual angel from the bible.

I like the levelling aspect of Kayle, but it would be nice if they'd at least make it so she didn't suck complete ass until Level 6.

It's probably "Seraph" for singular and "Seraphim" for plural if it's going by Hebrew rules. Tho I don't know any of that mythology so it's possible it doesn't work logically there...

surely this wont be another gragas

I understand your perspective on how her armour plays into her identity as becoming removed from humanity, but personally I think her identity is tied closer to the religious context of seraphims where they exist to praise god, or her mother. Kayle's faith is constantly referenced in her lore, where she'd blindly follow the rules even if she didn't understand them exactly, I think this directly explains how much like how angels in the bible took on a human appearance to help those they'd appear to digest their existence better. Kayle understands that the justice she considers as objective morality exists to protect them, and I view her father's death as both a moment of clarity of her wrongdoings and her true purpose which is why she seeks Targon to be with her mother (as she remembers her, which is also kind of why I assume she doesn't go the whole biblically accurate route but I think this one is super up to the individual). This, to me, also logically ties her want to be disconnected from human *emotions*, I emphasise this because I don't really understand why you lean so hard on her disconnect from humanity in general, especially knowing how much she values her mother. Like as a concept I think wanting her to become less human is awesome, and if that's what you want out of the character there are definitely things that could be different, but I think in that case Kayle is just not the character for that. This to me gives her character so much more depth, I think seeing her as the villain is super interesting, linking back in with morgana there are so many interesting things to take from their story, I just absolutely love religious symbolism and their references to that is incredible to me. Even if her kit is really flawed she's still one of my favourite champions in the game so it's really interesting to see other people's perspective on her.

The dumbest part I think is that Unmasked Kayle existed for this reason, but now the skin just got outright removed because it didn't fit their narrative, because yes, kayle should wear armour, it makes her look more unique, and makes her feel more detached.

Kayle and morgana are the two sides of the marines in one piece

I was expecting a kayle with gragas skills...

oh it is actually Kayle

if u dont wanna play kayn jng ik theres a video somewhere for kayn top and how not to have an abysmal time

that tryndamere was really on some shit huh

As a Kayle main, I find this video highly offensive... I love it.

For someone hell bent on oncreasing her power to the highest limit it sure is weird knowing her mother still has the biger part of the pie

Kayle and Tryndamere in a lane.... damn nobody's dying in top lane tonight

In her current state I like her getting less armored with levels because HER ARMOUR SUCKS SHES GOING TO STAB HER OWN GUTS OUT. If her armor was as cool as old Kayle (or preferably a lot cooler) people probably wouldnt have as much of a problem with her getting more armored with levels. Its just that her armour is terrible. Also personally I kind of like her gameplay, I enjoy being patient and feeling like my farming and wave catching matters.

suneater and empyrean, as much as some people don't like that skinline, do work better the ascending gig of Kayle. F on the chat for everyone who had unmasked kayle or riot before the rework.

Ay nicolas what if instead of playing kayn and rhast next time play kayn normal form entire match and on R rhast and shadow guy on S

Nah! as a main kayle trynda is one of the harder match and counter of kayle, it really is unfortunte to pick this matchup on the champion review

"I am rewarded for playing like garbage because my champion was designed to be garbage for 30 minutes until I become a god" Quote of the day and every scaling champ experience

I used to main Kayle before her rework, I really dislike her new style with sexy spandex with BDSM "armoured" bits

I like Kayle entirely because of Pentakill. If she did not have a Pentakill skin I would never play her.

I just think the concept of *hyper* carries is toxic. Not carries. *Hyper* carries intended to get to late game and 1v9 the game. They basically guarantee a large chunk of the players in the game will have a bad time and due to the siloing of lane duties most of those players will have no agency to stop the enemy hyper carry early and start to interact around the time they start power spiking.

I literally don’t know what happened for you to die so fast at 9:41

Of you build ad you spike earlier

Time to crowdfund Kayle rework-V2 Vtuber model gentlemen