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| 5 | Individual Champions: [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsAatrox Aatrox]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsAhri Ahri]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsDarius Darius]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsEkko Ekko]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsFiddlesticks Fiddlesticks]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsGaren Garen]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsGraves Graves]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJhin Jhin]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJinx Jinx]] | '''Kayle''' | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsLux Lux]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsMordekaiser Mordekaiser]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsMorgana Morgana]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsNunuAndWillump Nunu & Willump]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsPantheon Pantheon]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsSwain Swain]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsThresh Thresh]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsUdyr Udyr]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsViego Viego]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsYasuo Yasuo]]\ |
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| 8 | !Kayle, the Righteous |
| 9 | [[quoteright:308:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kayle_originalloading_1.jpg]] |
| 10 | [[caption-width-right:308:[-"They shall tremble at my perfection."-] ]] |
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| 12 | !!!'''Voiced by:'''\ |
| 13 | Creator/ZehraFazal (English)\ |
| 14 | Noora Louhimo (As the Pentakill vocalist)\ |
| 15 | Conchi López (European Spanish)\ |
| 16 | Rebeca Gómez (Mexican Spanish)\ |
| 17 | Creator/AyumiTsunematsu (Japanese)\ |
| 18 | Mariangela Cantú (Brazilian Portuguese)\ |
| 19 | So-Yeong Lee (Korean)\ |
| 20 | Olga Kuznetsova (Russian)\ |
| 21 | '''Appears in:''' ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'' |
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| 23 | ->''"No human is perfect. But I am not human."''\ |
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| 25 | ''Born to a Targonian Aspect at the height of the Rune Wars, Kayle honored her mother’s legacy by fighting for justice on wings of divine flame. She and her twin sister Morgana were the protectors of Demacia for many years—until Kayle became disillusioned with the repeated failings of mortals, and abandoned this realm altogether. Still, legends are told of her punishing the unjust with her fiery swords, and many hope that she will one day return...'' |
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| 27 | Kayle is a Specialist champion who drastically escalates in power and range the longer the game goes on, delivering swift justice upon her foes and divine aid upon her allies. |
| 28 | * Her passive, ''[[EvolvingAttack Divine Ascent]]'', causes Kayle to ascend into a new divine form after she reaches certain levels, changing her appearance and the properties of her basic attacks. |
| 29 | ** She starts the game as ''Zealous'' and strictly melee, with her basic attacks granting her an attack speed bonus, stacking up to five times. At maximum stacks, Kayle becomes ''Exalted'', gaining bonus movement speed. |
| 30 | ** At level six she becomes ''Arisen'', gaining a second set of wings and transitioning from melee to ranged. |
| 31 | ** At level eleven she becomes ''Aflame'', losing her helmet and gaining a third set of wings, causing her basic attacks while ''Exalted'' to launch waves of fire in the target's direction that damage all enemies in their path. |
| 32 | ** At level sixteen she becomes ''Transcendent'', turning her wings golden and splitting her blade in two, becoming permanently ''Exalted'' and further increasing the range of her basic attacks. |
| 33 | * Her first ability, ''[[ArmorPiercingAttack Radiant Blast]]'', sends out a blade of light in a target direction that explodes upon hitting an enemy, damaging, slowing and reducing the armor and magic resistance of all enemies caught in the blast. |
| 34 | * With her second ability, ''[[HealItWithFire Celestial Blessing]]'', Kayle blesses herself and a nearby allied champion, healing both targets and briefly increasing their movement speed. |
| 35 | * Her third ability, ''[[SpellBlade Starfire Spellblade]]'', passively causes Kayle's basic attacks to deal bonus magic damage. When activated, her next basic attack becomes a projectile that deals bonus damage based on the target's missing health. After becoming ''Aflame'', the projectile also explodes to damage other foes around the target. |
| 36 | * With her ultimate ability, ''[[NighInvulnerability Divine Judgement]]'', Kayle channels as she bestows divine protection upon herself or a nearby allied champion, making them completely immune to damage for a few seconds. After a brief delay, a barrage of purging swords falls around the target, dealing heavy damage to nearby enemies. |
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| 38 | Kayle's skins include [[SilverHasMysticPowers Silver Kayle]], [[NatureHero Viridian Kayle]], Transcended Kayle, [[{{Valkyries}} Battleborn Kayle]], Judgement Kayle, [[PoweredArmor Aether Wing Kayle]], [[FairCop Riot Kayle]], [[GothicHorror Iron Inquisitor Kayle]], [[HeavyMetal Pentakill Kayle]], [[PsychicPowers PsyOps]] [[SuperSoldier Kayle]], [[TheDragonslayer Dragonslayer Kayle]], [[Music/{{Pentakill}} Pentakill III: Lost Chapter Kayle]], [[ThePowerOfTheSun Sun-Eater Kayle]], [[{{Wuxia}} Immortal Journey Kayle]], [[ParadoxPerson Empyrean Kayle]], and Prestige Empyrean Kayle.\ |
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| 40 | In season 1 of ''Teamfight Tactics'', Kayle is a Tier 5 Noble Knight. Her ability, ''Divine Judgement'', temporarily makes the ally with lowest health percentage completely immune to damage - on higher star levels, it can affect multiple allies. She was removed in season 2. She returns in season 3 using her Aether Wing Kayle skin as a 4 cost Valkyrie Blademaster. Her ability is ''Divine Ascent'', which causes her attacks to launch waves that deal additional magic damage to enemies hit for the rest of the round. She was removed alongside the other Valkyrie champions in the ''Return to the Stars'' mid-set update. She returns in season 4's ''Festival of Beasts'' mid-set update as a Tier 4 Divine Executioner using her Transcended Kayle skin. Her ability remains unchanged apart from being renamed to ''Ascend''. In season 5, she uses her Viridian Kayle skin as a Tier 5 Redeemed Verdant Legionnaire. Her ability, while retaining the name ''Divine Ascent'' from season 3, is instead a passive that causes Kayle to ascend every few seconds up to four times, giving her a different boost each time. Kayle's first ascension causes her basic attacks to deal bonus true damage based on her attack damage, her second causes her basic attacks to deal her full attack damage and the bonus true damage to enemies around her target, her third causes every fifteenth basic attack to briefly make Kayle immune to damage, and her final ascension makes her basic attacks call down a barrage of swords that deal additional magic damage around her target. She loses her Verdant origin due to the removal of the trait in the ''Dawn of Heroes'' mid-set update. She was removed in season 6, returning in season 8 using her [=PsyOps=] Kayle skin as a Tier 1 Underground Duelist. Her new ''Starfire Spellblade'' ability empowers her next three basic attacks to deal bonus percent attack damage to her target and magic damage in a 1-hex radius around them. In season 9, she returns to using her base skin as a Tier 1 Demacia Slayer. Here, her ''Divine Ascent'' ability grants Kayle passive bonuses based on her Tactician's level. At Level 1, Kayle's basic attacks deal bonus magic damage. At Level 6, every third attack launches a wave that deals the bonus magic damage and applies a magic resistance shred to enemies hit. At Level 9, the wave travels farther and every basic attack launches a wave. In season 10, she uses her Pentakill Kayle skin and is a Tier 2 Pentakill Edgelord. Her ''Fires of Ascension'' ability causes her basic attacks to deal bonus magic damage in a cone behind her target and shred the magic resist of enemies hit for a few seconds. Once the spell's duration expires, she deals a final burst of magic damage around her current target.\ |
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| 42 | In ''[[VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra Legends of Runeterra]]'', Kayle is a 5-mana 1/5 Targon Champion who passively gains +1/+0 for each time an ally has attacked with buffed Power, and grants all allies +1/+0 (+1/+1 if she's levelled up) when she's summoned. Her abilities scale further as her power increases. At 6 power, she gains Quick Attack. At 11 power, she levels up at the start of the round, gaining +1/+1 and Overwhelm and granting allies a further +1/+1. Finally, at 16 power, her Quick Attack upgrades to Double Attack. Her signature spell is Kayle's Divine Judgment. |
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| 44 | !!!Kayle has two main incarnations that have existed, her original version from 2009, and her Visual-Gameplay Update from 2019. Both versions will have respective folders with tropes specific to them. |
| 45 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 46 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 47 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Aether Wing Kayle, an AlternateUniverse variant of Kayle who is ObviouslyEvil in her blind and cruel AllCrimesAreEqual mentality. |
| 48 | * CainAndAbel: She's twin sisters with Morgana, and the two have been enemies with one another ever since the dawn of Demacia. . |
| 49 | * CombatMedic: Despite her huge emphasis on damage-dealing, she also has several supporting abilities to heal allies or render them completely invulnerable to damage. |
| 50 | * DifficultButAwesome: Her ultimate, Intervention, which makes an allied target immune to all damage for a few seconds. Properly timed, this ability can largely nullify the abilities of the enemy team and pretty much the very purpose of the mage and assassin champion archetypes. Communication with her team can pay huge dividends if she coordinates to use Intervention offensively on someone who can wreak havoc on the enemy team with abandon- trying this on someone that's unaware of her intentions will likely just waste it. |
| 51 | * FaceFramedInShadow: Prior to her VGU, Kayle's face was completely hidden in the shadows while wearing her helmet. Initially on the rework, [[https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/016/165/726/large/jessica-oyhenart-kayle-detail.jpg?1551159618 her splash art was designed so that you could faintly see her human face through it]], but this has since been undone, and her face is now completely obscured again. |
| 52 | * FlamingSword: She carries [[BifurcatedWeapon one or both halves]] of one belonging to her and Morgana’s mother, the Aspect of Justice. Her attacks take on more [[KillItWithFire fiery properties]] as she evolves. |
| 53 | * GlassCannon: As immensely powerful as her damage gets, Kayle's biggest weakness throughout all stages of the game is her lack of durability and few escapes. Even with her [[NighInvulnerable invincibility ultimate]], she can't attack while casting it on herself. |
| 54 | * GoodIsNotSoft: She ascribes by the Demacian values of justice ([[BeenThereShapedHistory and in fact, was the inspiration behind them back when Demacia was originally just an anti-magic refugee settlement]]). Case in point, during "[[https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/kayle-color-story/ In the Fires of Justice]]", Kayle descends to punish a wicked tyrant from rewriting the laws of his decaying land and planning to KillThePoor, saving his subjects and allowing them to rebuild in the name of justice and honor... but did so by [[KillItWithFire obliterating the king and his corrupt followers in holy fire]], seeing them as utterly irredeemable for their crimes. |
| 55 | -->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/b/b2/Kayle.move3.ogg "An eye for an eye!"]]'' |
| 56 | * HealItWithFire: When she's not using it to smite evildoers, Kayle has an ability to heal herself and allies using her celestial fire. |
| 57 | * LadyOfWar: She carries herself with a stoic reserve and duty to justice. Combined with her beautiful gold and white armor, angelic wings, and glowing {{BFS}}, she shows herself to be graceful female paladin. |
| 58 | * LightIsNotGood: In many ways Morgana definitely feels this way about her. Also, at one point she was one of the few purely good champions, but her lore update made her a more conflicted figure. |
| 59 | * MagikarpPower: '''Post-VGU:''' Highlighted to a pretty extreme extent with her passive. Kayle in the early game lacks damage and range and must play carefully around her enemies, but her level-based power spikes are crazy (each rank effectively eliminates a core weakness; her first ascension gives her reliable range, her second gives her valuable waveclear, etc.), and by the late game, she'll be able to deal some enormous hybrid DPS ''and'' have some additional and powerful support utility at her disposal, becoming a ''very'' dangerous monster even if she's behind. |
| 60 | * MeaningfulName: Her name might be derived from ''caelum'' ('cale-UHM', Latin: 'sky','heaven') and/or ''Kelila'' (Hebrew: 'laurel wreath'), both are very fitting for an angel. |
| 61 | * NighInvulnerability: Her Ultimate gives an herself or an ally this for a few seconds. |
| 62 | * OurAngelsAreDifferent: Kayle and Morgana aren't actually angels, post-VGU at least. Prior to their 2019 relaunch, they were indeed winged divine beings, but Riot moved away from this [[https://twitter.com/LaurieGoulding/status/1100803414731026432 due to cultural connotations that clashed with the setting/story progression]]. But it continues to be their aesthetic, with Kayle in particular bringing to mind ArchangelMichael. She has [[WingedHumanoid multiple wings]], wields the power of [[StarPower celestial]] [[PlayingWithFire starfire]], and is enshrined in [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine beautiful gold and white colors]]. She also mixes in elements of {{Valkyrie|s}} mythology, being an armored, valiant leader of Demacian armies. |
| 63 | * ThePaladin: Kayle still fits traditional criteria for the archetype, from the [[HolyHandGrenade holy]] [[OurAngelsAreDifferent veneer]] to the mixed [[MagicKnight offensive and]] [[CombatMedic supporting]] gameplay. |
| 64 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She and her sister have been around since the origins of Demacia, making them centuries old. Her old lore went even further; she was fighting in the war in her own world for over ''[[ForeverWar ten thousand years]]''. |
| 65 | * {{Retcon}}: In the original lore, Kayle and Morgana were angels fighting for dominance over a divine, heavenly realm beyond Runeterra. With her 2019 VGU, both of them were brought much closer to earth, exploring their mortal origins and better detailing Kayle's exact relationship with Morgana. |
| 66 | * SplashDamageAbuse: ''Holy Fervor'', and her new empowered autos and ''Starfire Spellblade'', gives her attacks additional range and an area of effect, making it possible to shred multiple opponents at once by attacking the only one within her reach. |
| 67 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Compared to Morgana, she's seems to be more of a tomboy -- she's heavily armored and utilizes her physical attacks more, though both use their abilities heavily as part of their gameplay. Taken to the max with her reveal as the boisterous female vocalist of Pentakill. |
| 68 | * WingedHumanoid: She received wings after first picking up her mother's power, obviously evoking of an angel or valkyrie, with her artwork most commonly being depicted as having two pairs. In-game, she begins with one pair, but gradually escalates as the game goes on, with up to ''three'' pairs. |
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| 71 | [[folder:Modern Kayle (Post-VGU)]] |
| 72 | * AncestralWeapon: [[https://old.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/ayfxhw/were_the_rioters_that_reworked_kayle_and_morgana/ei0qxjl/?context=3 According to Kayle's writer]], the swords Kayle summons for her ultimate once belonged to former Aspects of Justice, all being called down to rain truth and justice upon the world. |
| 73 | * AngstWhatAngst: Invoked: she believes she must abandon her human emotions in order to represent Justice. The fact that she ''is'' human and she ''can't'' do that is the struggle at the core of her characterization. |
| 74 | * ArtEvolution: She received a substantial facelift in 2019 with a full VGU, rebuilding her design, animations, VFX, splash artwork, voiceover, etc. from scratch and up to modern standards. |
| 75 | * AttackAttackAttack: Landing successive attacks is key to [[GatheringSteam unleashing Kayle's full damage potential]], as her stats increase once she's ''Exalted''. By the late game, this results in champ that can rain fiery death with auto-attacks alone, since her attacks now strike multiple enemies and scale with her ability power. |
| 76 | * AwesomeButImpractical: Kayle isn't an especially common champion in large part due to having one of the most drastic [[MagikarpPower scaling curves]] in the game, for better and for worse. On one hand, her late-game strengths are the stuff of nightmares for the enemy team, able to dish out incredible high-DPS hybrid damage while buffing herself and her allies, including making them [[NighInvulnerable straight-up invincible]] at will, making her what is statistically among the deadliest champions in the game. The issue is actually getting to that point -- on top of having a pretty sluggish early game (for one, she has to begin in melee until she gets her ultimate), Kayle's major power spikes come not from accumulating gold and getting items (though that is important), but from the personal utility she gets from reaching certain levels, a paradigm that isn't as easy to get a direct advantage in than with gold. Consequently, Kayle lacks the ability to create a definite lead for herself to snowball into a victory as seen with other hypercarries, and what usually ends up happening is that even if she gets a few early kills and a gold advantage, she won't ''really'' have a change in gameplay performance until she reaches the crucial levels to give her the features that no enemy wants to fight. |
| 77 | * BalanceBuff: Kayle had historically been known to be an almost full JackOfAllTrades champion, developing a more specialized reputation as a CombatMedic who fights using [[DeathOfAThousandCuts relentless ranged auto-attacks]] and [[MagikarpPower scales like crazy]] with devastating hybrid damage. However, [[AwesomeButImpractical a lot of this was hampered as her kit had very little options of expression]], in turn making her balanced as a skillshot-less beatstick whose efficacy was based entirely around stats, not helped by some of the clunkiness of her abilities[[note]]Unlike what we see today, Kayle's auto-attacks were melee by default, and the range had to be manually activated by the ''Righteous Fury'' ability, which had a high uptime [[MagikarpPower come late game]], but constantly required the player to [[SpamAttack spam down the button to keep the effect active]][[/note]]. Her 2019 VGU addressed these problems by shifting these elements into more expressive means; she still has her supporting capabilities (including her [[NighInvulnerability invincibility ultimate]]), she still has [[AntiArmor armor/magic resistance shred]] but now tied to a proper skillshot ability, she still has the melee-to-ranged evolution tweaked to now be an automatic process, and she has a much more definitive gameplay curve of "farm safely, level up, demolish the late game teamfights" [[EvolvingAttack accentuated by the dynamic evolution of her passive]]. |
| 78 | * BeenThereShapedHistory: She and Morgana were part of Demacia and gained their celestial powers back when it was merely a refugee settlement. It's said that Kayle's legend helped shape the culture and law of Demacia into becoming the proud military kingdom by the present day, with her being venerated as "The Winged Protector". |
| 79 | * BeingGoodSucks: Make no mistake, while Kayle sees it as her divine duty to carry on the will of the Aspect of Justice, [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner to best carry it out]], she isn't so much relinquishing her humanity to do so as she is sacrificing it for the greater good. As adamant in her quest to seeking divinity as she is, a few of her lines imply she's disappointed in what she's had to give up to do so. |
| 80 | -->''"[[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/8/88/Kayle_Original_074.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20190223190624 The path to the light is a lonely one]]."'' |
| 81 | * BlackAndWhiteMorality: Her service as a judicator blessed by the Aspect of Justice's powers has led her to develop this worldview, which combines very dangerously with her..."[[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner direct]]" approach. |
| 82 | -->''"[[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/6/67/Kayle_Original_058.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20190223190613 There is right, and there is wrong. All else is rationalization]]."'' |
| 83 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: The very original incarnation of Kayle was that of an [[IncorruptiblePurePureness incorruptibly pure angel]]; one who was willing to fight, but firmly one of the most morally "good" characters in the entire roster. With her 2019 VGU greatly reinventing her and Morgana's place in the current-day lore, Kayle has since been rewritten as still Lawful good, but in some decisions conflicting and harsh paladin, whose [[GodIsFlawed humanity brushes up against her divine duty as a half-Aspect of Justice]], and one whose actions in the name of purity and righteousness makes her frightening sometimes. |
| 84 | * ColorCodedForYourConvenience: At least in her base skin, Kayle's wings are a blue-ish white by default, which glow a bright red once she becomes ''Exalted''. Once she reaches ''Transcendent'' status, they start glowing a bright gold. |
| 85 | * CostumeEvolution: Compare to her original armor, which was much heavier and prominently gold, as well as keeping her face obscured at all times, Kayle's new default look is sleeker and has a greater emphasis on [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine white, while retaining some gold accents]]. She also ''loses'' more of the armor as she evolves in-game. |
| 86 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Her post-VGU characterization is significantly more conflicted than in her prior incarnation, which Riot painted as [[BigGood one of the most pure and "good" champions of the game]]. With her relaunch, she's not a literal angel whose divinity is universal, but [[GodIsFlawed a flawed, if powerful judicator]] who sees [[ForGreatJustice justice as worth fighting for]], but finds mortal emotion to be a hindrance, [[NotSoStoic including her own]]. |
| 87 | * DivergentCharacterEvolution: A case of a single character across multiple skins. Several of Kayle's earlier skins were merely {{Palette Swap}}s, but with her full 2019 VGU, they were all redesigned with unique visual identities in mind. The most notable was her extremely rare Unmasked Kayle ([[YouHaveResearchedBreathing which was merely her base skin with her helmet off, something she now currently does from level 11 onward anyway]]), which was rebuilt as a completely unique Transcendent Kayle skin. |
| 88 | * DualWielding: When she reaches ''Aflame'' status, she splits her {{BFS}} into twin blades to swing at enemies. |
| 89 | * EmotionsVsStoicism: One part of the conflict between her and Morgana, with Kayle taking the Stoicism side. She believes that as part of her duty as the Aspect of Justice's legacy, she must eschew mortal emotion in order to best [[BlackAndWhiteMorality properly define and act upon the guilty]]. This puts her at a cross with Morgana, who instead believes in atonement and moral complexity, and instead embraces emotions and empathy to help those who she rationalizes deserve it. |
| 90 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Being an objectively-operating judicator, she's able to tell that Demacia has strayed far away from what she originally left it as and isn't happy with how it turned out. [[GrayAndGrayMorality By this same token, however]], she believes that while [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Sylas was innocent at one point]], [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized that point has long since passed]]. |
| 91 | * EvolvingAttack: ''Divine Ascent'' greatly affects how her basic attacks work, turning her from a slow melee combatant to a ranged powerhouse with hybrid damage and [=AoE=] as she levels up. |
| 92 | * FamedInStory: Her mark on Demacian history, laws, and values has been well-documented, and she remains venerated as "The Winged Protector". |
| 93 | * FatalFlaw: [[https://old.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/ayfxhw/were_the_rioters_that_reworked_kayle_and_morgana/ei131i1/ Hers according to her writers]] is her self-righteousness and [[NeverMyFault ability to blind herself to her own flaws and mistakes]]. While she does [[ForGreatJustice believe in her rhetoric]], Kayle denies the possibility that she may not be as fit for [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner her position]] as she believes, and even when she does admit her past failings, she downplays their present effect by emphasizing that they were in the ''past'', as if to insist that she has since overcome them. |
| 94 | -->''"[[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/0/06/Kayle_Original_103.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20190223192559 To be human is to be imperfect]], [[ExactWords but I am not human]]!"'' |
| 95 | * {{Foil}}: There is ''a lot'' you can analyze by comparing and contrasting Kayle [[SiblingYinYang with her twin sister, Morgana]]. Visually, Kayle is a sword-wielding warrior [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine adorned in gold and whites]], evocative of angels and {{valkyries}}, while Morgana is a magic-user associated with [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack dark]] [[PurpleIsPowerful purples]], designed more in line with a FallenAngel or LadyOfBlackMagic archetype. Personality-wise, Kayle is stoic, impartial, and seeks to fulfill her divine duty serving the Aspect of Justice through retributive justice, whereas Morgana is emotion-based, openly rational, and rejects such a duty in favor of helping the mortals. In gameplay, Kayle is an offensive CombatMedic [[MagikarpPower whose damage scales to incredibly high degrees as the game goes on]], while Morgana is a SimpleYetAwesome [[SupportPartyMember catcher]] who specializes in locking down opponents or preventing the same fate for her allies. And Kayle can place a shield on allies that can absorb infinite amounts of damage without breaking, but still leaves them vulnerable to CC effects that can hold them in place until it wears off, while Morgana's shield only prevents a set amount of exclusively magic damage before breaking, but renders the target completely immune to CC effects. |
| 96 | * GatheringSteam: Her passive is a two-parter and while the first part of it is solidly a MagikarpPower -- with Kayle unlocking more and more powerful forms as she levels up -- the second half falls squarely into this trope, growing in lethality as she engages in combat and fading off again when she isn't. By the time she reaches level 16, she no longer needs to gather steam to fight at her full potential. |
| 97 | * GameplayAndStoryIntegration: [[https://twitter.com/Jellbug/status/1099032567007739905 The whole shtick behind Kayle's]] ''[[MagikarpPower Divine Ascent]]'' is that it's meant to represent a condensed version of her lifetime, where she slowly suppresses her humanity in order to grow more powerful as a divine being. |
| 98 | * GodIsFlawed: While Kayle is a capable and powerful descendant of the Aspect of Justice, [[UnreliableNarrator despite her claims]], she is ([[DeityOfHumanOrigin or at least was]]) a human who experiences emotion and vices, which unfortunately turns on her at the worst times. She is at least aware of this and wants to overcome her flaws, allowing herself to be the judicator worthy of her mother's power, but a significant emotional attachment still stands to block her path: [[CainAndAbel Morgana]]. |
| 99 | * GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Gold and white make up the majority of her palette, and accentuate her angelic image. |
| 100 | * GreaterScopeVillain: To the Demacian storyline. In ''The Mageseeker'', not only are the Mageseekers experimenting with her powers, but Morgana fears Kayle's retribution if she were to return to Demacia, implying Kayle would ''wipe it off the map'' due to the injustice currently within it. To stop that from happening, Morgana must bring about reform from the shadows rather than directly acting to help Demacia. |
| 101 | * HolyHandGrenade: Her entire kit's theme, though only one of her abilities deals instant damage by itself. |
| 102 | * HotterAndSexier: Her original character design was so heavily armored that SamusIsAGirl came into play at times, since the only feminine things about her was her voice and somewhat-slim waist. Her current character design is more or less a bodysuit with a few armored portions, which evoked direct comparisons to [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Zero-Suit Samus]]. At least part of this is shift [[JustifiedTrope was done to better communicate]] [[GlassCannon her lack of durability in combat]], something [[GameplayAndStorySegregation her original, bulkier design was a little more misleading in]]. |
| 103 | * IAmTheNoun: When her Aether Wing skin gets a [[TotalPartyKill Pentakill]]: |
| 104 | -->'''Kayle:''' [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd I am the judge]], [[ShoutOut I am the jury, and]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I! AM! THE LAW!]] |
| 105 | * IdenticalTwinIDTag: Aside from their drastically different outfits and hair color, she and Morgana both share the same improbably spiky hairstyle (each one spiking the opposite direction). Hilariously, while Morgana chides Kayle for keeping hers styled the same way for centuries, Kayle accuses Morgana of copying her. |
| 106 | * InspectorJavert: So much so that [[https://old.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/ayfxhw/were_the_rioters_that_reworked_kayle_and_morgana/ei0paqu/?context=3 she's even been directly compared to the trope namer by her developers]]. |
| 107 | * JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: She finds her duty as inheritor of the Aspect of Justice's power to serve as this, [[KnightTemplar to uphold the laws of Demacia and purge those she recognizes as wicked]]. It should be noted, however, [[https://old.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/ayfxhw/were_the_rioters_that_reworked_kayle_and_morgana/ei0paqu/?context=3 that she does]] ''not'' believe that AllCrimesAreEqual; your punishment will be no more or less than what the law dictates, but to those whose crimes are just ''that'' severe, the death penalty is an accepted sentence. |
| 108 | --->'''The Righteous''' |
| 109 | * LegacyCharacter: Curiously {{downplayed|Trope}}. While she does share half of her mother's power, as well as possessing [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner her temperament]] and [[ForGreatJustice motivations]], her biography doesn't directly state that she is the new Aspect of Justice following her mother, merely that she's its legacy. |
| 110 | * LikeMotherLikeDaughter: She desires to take on her late mother's duty as the Aspect of Justice, but while Kayle represents retribution, Mihira seems to be balance of Retribution and Redemption. |
| 111 | * LoveIsAWeakness: A firm believer of this as per [[BlackAndWhiteMorality her overall philosophy]]. She's gone as far as to suppress all feelings of love for others, including her own sister. |
| 112 | * MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Starts off very slowly as melee fighter with very limited ranged options, but said options slowly ramp up as she levels up, becoming fully ranged basic attacks by level 6 and onward, to a point that "melee only" item passives stop working on her. |
| 113 | * MissingMom: Neither Kayle nor Morgana's backstories make clear what happened to their mother that resulted in them receiving her powers, [[https://old.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/ayfxhw/were_the_rioters_that_reworked_kayle_and_morgana/ei0paqu/?context=3 and part of Kayle's centuries-long disappearance at Mount Targon has been spent searching for her]]. |
| 114 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Her clash with Morgana resulted in their beloved father dying from the collateral damage. From that moment forward, Kayle swore to never let her human emotions rule her again... [[CainAndAbel but also made Morgana into a clear enemy in the process]]. |
| 115 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: An interesting case where Kayle herself wasn't directly responsible, but rather her protégé, Ronas. Had he not attempted to imprison Morgana -- someone Kayle still had a soft spot for but seemingly violated the entire rhetoric of their order -- without Kayle's actual consent or even notice, [[PoorCommunicationKills Morgana very likely wouldn't have killed him in self defense, leading to a disastrous rift in their relationship]]. |
| 116 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted; Kayle's modern Demacian moniker of "The Protector" is comparable to Taric's status as Aspect of the Protector, though the titles are unrelated. |
| 117 | * PetTheDog: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}; despite their animosity and Kayle's personal insistence of lacking such feelings, Kayle ultimately harbors some degree of affection towards Morgana, having allowed her sister to practice her own form of empathetic, restorative justice even as she was laying the law of the land in the form of cold, retributive justice. This went awry as it was effectively Kayle and the consequences of her Judicators trying to take out Morgana -- [[LoveIsAWeakness seeing her as Kayle's weakness]] -- were disastrous for everyone involved, and the fallout only convinced Kayle to further purge herself of moral vices and becoming the purest divine embodiment of retribution. |
| 118 | * PoorCommunicationKills: During her reign in proto-Demacia, Ronas, one of her closest Judicator allies, took the initiative to arrest Morgana for being a threat to their rhetoric without properly informing Kayle. When Morgana ended up killing him in self-defense, Kayle -- whose relationship was already straining with her sister -- assumed that she deliberately murdered him and broke into a violent, irrational rage against her that proved so destructive it accidentally claimed the life of their father. |
| 119 | * PowerGivesYouWings: When her powers first awakened, she sprouted a pair of angelic wings. In-game, Kayle starts out with a single pair of wings due to her divine heritage, but as she levels up her passive makes her transform -- and the first two transformations manifest mainly in another pair of wings being added to her frame to signal her increased power. |
| 120 | -->''Kayle eagerly snatched up one half of [her mother's sword], feathered wings springing forth from her shoulders, and Morgana cautiously followed her example.'' |
| 121 | --->'''The Righteous''' |
| 122 | * PragmaticHero: As the legacy to the Aspect of Justice, Kayle wants to simply cut to the chase in [[BlackAndWhiteMorality defining the guilty from the innocent]] so she can smite the wicked from the world, [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner and she doesn't intend there to be a court of appeal.]] |
| 123 | * PureIsNotGood: She aspires to be a perfect engine of Justice, punishing the wicked without bias, malice, or remorse. At higher levels, or in her other skins, she appears to have succeeded. This makes her ''terrifying''. However, based on her [=LoR=] appearance, with time she seems to stop denying her emotions and become softer. |
| 124 | * RunningGag: Aside from [[SiblingRivalry Morgana]], one of the only few things to get Kayle [[NotSoStoic to drop her stoic attitude]] are [[BeastMan yordles]], which she repeatedly reacts to not with endearment, amazement, exasperation, or fear, but with [[SarcasmFailure utter confusion]]. |
| 125 | -->''(first encountering a yordle champion)'' "[[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/8/8f/Kayle_Original_044.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20190223190601 Are you a talking animal? Tiny mortal? Why are you so soft?]]"\ |
| 126 | ''(during her joke emote)'' "[[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/3/3e/Kayle_Original_037.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20190223190555 Evil fears only fire. And... yordles, because — what even are they?]]" |
| 127 | * ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: During their days of rule in Demacia, Kayle willingly fudged the rules of judgment and punishment of the guilty to allow Morgana the opportunity to rehabilitate those she personally believed were capable of atonement. Kayle's judicator order, which was entirely built around those upholding those rules to the letter, was not amused. |
| 128 | * SemiDivine: Neither Kayle or Morgana have properly become one with the Aspect of Justice, but were merely born by it. They each inherited a share of heavenly power, but they are explicitly half-mortal human, half-celestial beings. Because of their unique origins and status, they also have much greater free will as opposed to other Aspects, whose situations are described as [[TwoBeingsOneBody two minds merged in a single body]]. |
| 129 | * SiblingRivalry: Despite their violent and tragic relationship, around half of their in-game interactions come across as [[SnarkToSnarkCombat back-and-forth bickering]] between... well, sisters. |
| 130 | -->'''Morgana''': ''(shields an ally Kayle)'' [[SarcasmMode You're welcome.]]\ |
| 131 | '''Kayle''': [[TeethClenchedTeamwork I didn't say "Thank you."]] |
| 132 | * SiblingYinYang: While Morgana is far more emotionally-driven and empathetic towards individuals seen as outcasts by the law and wanting to help them, Kayle is driven to properly uphold the Aspect of Justice's power, [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner casting judgement and punishment for those at fault]], seeing mortal emotion as a hindering complication. |
| 133 | * TheStoic: Kayle seeks to become this as to become a perfect, objective judicator, and generally speaks with a serious and emotionally detached tone. Unfortunately, [[GodIsFlawed she's still a victim of human vices]] [[NotSoStoic that compromise that goal]]. |
| 134 | -->'''Morgana''': ''([[CainAndAbel while attacking Kayle]])'' Feel something! Anything!\ |
| 135 | '''Kayle''': Why do you think I wear armor, sister? |
| 136 | * SucksAtDancing: Her dance [[ShoutOut references Elaine's "little kicks" dance from]] ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', and it's just as intentionally stiff and awkward-looking as it was in the source material. Given [[TheStoic Kayle's]] [[KnightTemplar personality]], [[TheComicallySerious this is almost]] [[NotSoStoic to be expected]]. |
| 137 | * SwordBeam: Her auto-attacks at full strength become big arcing waves of [[KillItWithFire fire]]. |
| 138 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: To be expected, she's not exactly happy with Morgana being on her allied team. |
| 139 | -->''"[[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/e/e1/Kayle_Original_151.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20190223192637 Here to make excuses for their darkness, sister?]]"'' |
| 140 | * YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: Part of her animosity with Morgana is due to how she's chosen to use her half of their mother's celestial power. Kayle believes that it's their divine duty to serve as the fitting legacy to the Aspect of Justice, but is disappointed that Morgana both chooses to devote them for a conflicting and inefficient outlook, as well as for [[WillfullyWeak willfully restraining them in an attempt to return to humanity]]. |
| 141 | -->''"[[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/b/b4/Kayle_Original_024.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20190223190534 Your power could save this world, Morgana. Instead it dooms you.]]"'' |
| 142 | [[/folder]] |
| 143 | |
| 144 | [[folder:Old Kayle (Pre-VGU)]] |
| 145 | !Kayle, the Judicator |
| 146 | [[quoteright:308:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kayle_originalloading.jpg]] |
| 147 | [[caption-width-right:308:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/3f/Kayle_Select.ogg Into the fray!]]-] ]] |
| 148 | |
| 149 | !!!'''Voiced by:'''\ |
| 150 | Lisa Lindsley (English)\ |
| 151 | Noora Louhimo (As the Pentakill vocalist)\ |
| 152 | Conchi López (European Spanish)\ |
| 153 | Laura Ayala (Mexican Spanish)\ |
| 154 | Carla Pompílio (Brazilian Portuguese) |
| 155 | |
| 156 | ->''"Justice comes on swift wings."''\ |
| 157 | \ |
| 158 | ''A great hero and the strongest among her kind, Kayle is an angelic warrior dedicated to purging those beyond redemption. After conflict divided her people, she took up her enchanted armor and flaming sword in the name of order, disowning her very flesh and blood in the process. When Kayle descends upon the field of battle, her justice is swift—for none can escape the light of divine and righteous fury.'' |
| 159 | ---- |
| 160 | Kayle is a Specialist champion who excels at dealing mixed damage while also supporting her team with her assortment of strong utility spells. |
| 161 | * Her passive, ''[[AntiArmor Holy Fervor]]'', causes Kayle's attacks and abilities to reduce the armor and magic resist of enemies they damage, stacking up to five times. |
| 162 | * With her first ability, ''Reckoning'', Kayle smites a nearby enemy with a blast of light, damaging and slowing them. |
| 163 | * Her second ability, ''[[CombatMedic Divine Blessing]]'', blesses a nearby allied champion, healing them and granting them a movement speed bonus. |
| 164 | * Her third ability, ''Righteous Fury'', passively causes Kayle's basic attacks to deal bonus magic damage. When activated, Kayle ignites her sword with holy fire for a few seconds, making her basic attacks ranged and causing them to deal even more bonus magic damage that also spreads to enemies around her target. |
| 165 | * With her ultimate ability, ''[[[[NighInvulnerability Intervention]]'', Kayle protects herself or an allied champion with a shield of light, completely blocking all incoming damage to the target for a few seconds.\ |
| 166 | \ |
| 167 | Kayle's skins include [[SilverHasMysticPowers Silver Kayle]], Viridian Kayle, Unmasked Kayle, Battleborn Kayle, Judgement Kayle, [[{{Magitek}} Aether Wing Kayle]], Riot Kayle, [[GothicHorror Iron Inquisitor Kayle]], and [[HeavyMetal Pentakill Kayle]]. |
| 168 | ---- |
| 169 | * AncientArtifact: Her armor is stated to be enchanted, and the only existing masterpiece of an extinct [[PlanetOfHats race of craftsmen]]. |
| 170 | * ArtEvolution: Much of Aether Wing Kayle's art assets were made from scratch, resulting in a much more dynamic model, particle effects, and animations. Her auto-attack animations in specific feel ''much'' smoother than the somewhat clunkier ones found in her regular skins, to a point where many Kayle players consider using her Aether Wing skin to be a straight-up buff due to the clarity. |
| 171 | %%* BeautifulAllAlong: Weren't kidding about this in the lore. |
| 172 | * {{BFS}}: One of the largest in the game behind Tryndamere´s and Commando Jarvan. Bonus points for wielding it with one hand. |
| 173 | * BreastPlate: Her old model barely had any feminine features other than a slim waistline. An updated model pushed out her features somewhat. She remains completely covered, but her anatomy is more feminine. Played completely straight by her Battleborn Kayle skin. |
| 174 | * TheFaceless: ''Was'' always fully-armored with a face-concealing helmet in official pictures of her and in-game. Now there are two skins that can be bought with her helmet off. Her background states she avoids showing her face -- this is due to her constant fighting for thousands of years taking a toll on her spirit, and wearing her helmet constantly to fittingly match how she feels the justice she dispenses to be an ugly thing. |
| 175 | * HiddenBuxom: In her classic skin people will often [[ViewerGenderConfusion mistake her for a man]], but her newer skins show she's definitely not lacking under that armor. |
| 176 | * IMeantToDoThat: Her joke with the Aether Wing skin. |
| 177 | * InformedAttractiveness: Was officially described as "incredibly beautiful," but she's also always covered head to toe in official sources...[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/f/f3/Kayle_UnmaskedSkin.jpg Well]], she ''was''. |
| 178 | * InnocentBlueEyes: Seen on her Unmasked and Aether Wing skins, to help her angelic image. |
| 179 | * JackOfAllTrades: Kayle used to be literally the only champion in the game who can viably be played in ANY position: top, jungle, mid, ADC or support (although playing her as a primary ADC took some effort since she was only ranged during Righteous Fury, which caused her to push the lane unintentionally, not a good thing during laning). Because of this, she was the only champion in the game that could feasibly make use of any item or build (though obviously this depends on what role she intends to take), leaving her damage options open as to whether to build a hybrid of AP, AD, and/or AS or just focus on AP or AD. [[ConfusionFu As a result, seeing Kayle in the enemy team will tell you very little about what she'll be doing.]] |
| 180 | * LethalHarmlessPowers: Intervention makes an ally invulnerable for a few seconds, which sounds like the perfect defensive tool to save a teammate. It's suddenly a lot less harmless-looking when a fed ally of hers (which can include herself) uses it offensively to tear through the enemy team with abandon using this window of invulnerability. |
| 181 | * PaletteSwap: Her Viridian and Silver Kayle skins were very blatant recolors. |
| 182 | * SamusIsAGirl: Part of the appeal of her original look was the androgyny of her heavy-looking armor, which surprised players when her gender was revealed. Her color scheme is even based on Samus's. |
| 183 | * ShouldersOfDoom: She has some pretty big shoulder pads in any skin, especially her Battleborn Kayle skin. |
| 184 | * ThemeSongReveal: ''Tear of the Goddess'' reveals Kayle as the newest singer in the Pentakill, adding her angelic voice to the mix of metal and fire. |
| 185 | * UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Her Aether Wing Kayle skin has this as her backstory. The lore also implies this is played COMPLETELY straight and [[http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/legendary-aether-wing-kayle-takes-flight that the utopia is a good thing]]. |
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