So I’m a bronze I Kayle main. One thing that I’m painfully aware of is her slow and weak early game. Before she gets her range, and especially if she can’t get enough hits in to stack her passive, she falls behind (or I should say, I fall behind). She seems like she’s very easy to bully and doesn’t have a lot of trade/harass potential since her Q and E don’t do much damage at all until she’s built a few items or the enemy is already low hp. At 10:00 I’m usually lucky to have 25-30 CS, as I often find myself hovering back behind the wave, knowing that if I go to last hit things my opponent will go all in and I’ll have little at my disposal to respond but the slow from my Q, the heal and speed from my W, and maybe a very light response with my E.

Eventually (once I’m past level 6 and have built two or three things) I can deal with it, trade with my auto attacks, and sustain with my R and W, but getting to that point is a slog. Mid-late game is fine, and I often finish games with anywhere from 150-200 CS, with three or four items built, mostly due to split pushing in the mid game or defending lanes that are getting pushed. I could contribute so much more and so much sooner if I could build faster. Does anyone have advice on farming and dealing with harassment in the early game specifically as Kayle? Dos and do nots?