KayleMatchups

Like Trundle, free matchup.

Garen, like Trundle, his gameplan is to just run at you to do his combo and kill you. If you just don't let him get on top of you, then he can never threaten.

As long as you don't misposition or get caught from FoG, it's a free lane.

• Swifty Rush.

• Standard PTA.

• Flash / TP.

• DBlade.

• Start E level 1 and get priority to shove cannon wave.

Depending on what rune Ornn takes, you'll play the levels 1-3 differently.

1. Grasp | Take E level 1 and obtain priority. You can beat him, but only if you don't let him constantly proc his Grasp. E him in lane to begin, and start stacking passive. Maintain spacing so that he doesn't proc his Grasp until you have wave priority and you can start pressuring him. Get your cannon shove and base for Cull.

2. Aery | Some Ornns will go this cheesy Aery build against ranged users and then rush Bramble Vest so each time the ranged autos, it procs Aery. It's a super cheesy setup where they're planning on you damaging yourself into lethal range and they can sustain. Rush Gunblade into this setup so you completely negate his gameplan. Same thing and just get early priority against him level 1.

• DBlade if he has Grasp.

• DBlade or DShield for Aery (I recommend DShield, since more consistent against Aery Ornn, but DBlade is more kill pressure).

• Standard PTA. Flash / TP.

• Once more experienced, swap out to First Strike, much better against Ornn.

Easy matchup where you can both pressure and outscale Singed.

Get priority level 1 to shove cannon wave and recall for Cull. Afterwards, farm until 1k to rush Swifty boots. When you have Swifty boots, he can never get on top of you without burning both Ghost and Flash.

Warning: If you're looking to poke him under his turret, be careful when standing near his outer turret range as that's where he wants to root you and flip into his turret when your wave is about to be cleared.

• TP / Flash or Ghost / Flash. I personally prefer TP/Flash because I like being able to TP back for tempo.

• Q Max.

• PTA with slow resist shard.

• DBlade.

This is a very boring matchup. You basically can never kill Nasus in lane nor should he be able to kill you if you go the right runes and summoners.

Against Nasus, start DBlade and get early priority to shove cannon wave. Afterwards, hold the wave as close to your side until 6.

Once 6, your trading is only Auto > E and back off for 4 seconds before you can trade again. You need to have your Phase Rush ready whenever he withers you so you can run away.

Phase Rush proc: Q > Auto > E.

If he also takes Phase Rush and presses wither on you, you'll still be fine. If he takes Ghost and decides to Ghost on top of you as well, you have to Ghost as well to trade. He will never be able to catch up to you if you do this.

The only downside is he can wither you under turret and take a few platings for free. On top of that, you can opt to build either Verdant Barrier after Nashor's. Upgrade into Banshee's after DnD. The reason I recommend going Banshee's is because it has a much lower cooldown than QSS (90 seconds) than Verdant's (60) and Banshee's (40). You will outscale him in teamfights. In 1v1's it's even late game if you build correctly.

• Phase Rush | Double Adaptive / Slow resist shard.

• DBlade.

• Ghost / Cleanse.

• Swifty Rush.

• Can go Rylai's eventually if you need the extra kiting.

Skill matchup.

1. Can you position well to dodge his Q's? Also Q + E combo.

2. Can you outrun his W tether?

Establish early priority. Start E. Against Aatrox, you can actually get level 1 prio and shove cannon wave. Just make sure to be able to predict his Q's as they do hurt, as well as Q + E dash combo.

Save your W in this matchup primarily for when he W tethers you. The majority of times, you'll be able to run out of his tether if you save your W speed up.

Once 6, it becomes a skill matchup with your positioning to dodge his Q's and kite him out.

• DBlade start.

• Flash / Ignite.

• Standard PTA | AS / MS / 65HP shards. You don't need the slow resist shard for his tether.

• Q Max.

• Swifty Rush.

Pre-6, gameplan will depend on what rune Zaahen takes.

HoB? You will lose all trades. Just farm/soak XP till 6.

Conqueror? E start. You can obtain priority level 1 and shove cannon wave.

Dodge his W (pull) and you'll win. Careful for his E (dash) as he'll mask his 2nd Q (knock up) with his dash and catch you off to follow up with his pull. Once 6, just dodge his pull and you can start to bully him.

• DBlade start. IF enemy jungler is AD and you think you'll get dove, cloth armor + refill start.

• Flash / TP.

• Standard PTA, MS + HP scaling.

• Q Max if new. E Max once more comfortable.

This is a skill matchup pre-11. You dodge his barrels, you win. If you don't dodge his barrels, it'll be hard. Can you time his barrels to auto/E to break them? You win.

GP's gameplan is to spam his Q's on you and force you out of lane. Luckily, it is very short range. Play this similar to Malphite in the early game where you only let him Q you for a reason, like for CS or holding wave. GP also likes to put barrels in bushes and connect another on top of you to surprise, so keep in mind when near bushes.

Short trades against GP only pre-6. Once 6, you can actually run him down if he mispositions and doesn't land a barrel. Once level 11, stack your passive and you will auto win. You will auto beat him late game, as long as you don't get barreled in the face out of vision.

• DShield.

• Standard PTA (Double Adaptive + HP scaling).

• TP / Flash.

• Q Max.

Contrary to belief, Jax isn't that bad of a matchup from MY personal experience. Yes, his E is the only thing that counters you, but it's only for 2.5 seconds. You'll eventually outscale him and his E won't matter when you can just statcheck him. It's just the laning phase where most people have a problem dealing with him but if you can get through that, it's fine.

This matchup is all about survival and spacing/kiting to an extent.

Level 1, you will lose since he will start E. Start Q to farm the 3 melees. If he zones you, just start E and E him. Afterwards, try and hold the wave on your side for as long as possible to soak 6. When wave is on his side, just soak until it slow pushes back.

Try to space well so he can't Q + E onto you. If you can't, then preemptively Q before he Q + E onto you so you can kite him out after getting stunned.

If the wave is on your side, he can never jump on to you since he'll take turret damage. That's where you can bully him.

ONLY bully/trade when wave is on YOUR SIDE where you're safe under turret. Otherwise, wait and just soak until wave bounces back to you.

Level 11, becomes skill matchup with how well you space him. Level 16, you will statcheck him the majority of times and win. Just be careful of AP Jax as he has a lot of burst with E. Standard AD Jax you don't have to worry too much about burst.

• Standard PTA | Can take bone plating/unflinching if you think you'll be camped.

• Flash / TP or TP / Exhaust (I prefer TP/Exhaust if possible).

• DBlade or DShield.

• Q Max.