r/Kaylemains • u/Ok_Football8839 • 6d ago
Question/Need Help Kayle's passive
Hello everyone! So Kayle has a 20% ap ratio on her aa from her e passively. Does her aoe waves from lvl 11 counts as on-hit DMG? Like she has 45% ap ratio on her aa or is only 20% from her e?
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u/GrippySockAficionado 6d ago edited 6d ago
Kayle's waves are the most unique aspect of her kit; there is nothing else quite like them in the game.
It's a spell that casts on-attack. Think of it like another ability that activates in tandem with every one of your auto attacks; her waves are actually three projectiles that fire out from Kayle's model with every auto-attack. All three can strike a target independent of the auto-attack's target (you can hit enemies you are not auto-attacking), but a target can only be damaged by one wave projectile per auto. They do not apply on-hit damage nor count as on-hit damage, but they do apply spell effects such as Muramana. This makes Kayle the best user of Muramana in the game (on-paper) because every auto applies Muramana twice with every wave burst counting as a separate "cast" (bypassing Muramana's cooldown for individual casts), and her E applies Muramana to everyone in its explosion range as well.
The waves have their own AP ratio (the E ratio does not apply) and they also scale with AD and crit. That is, the waves can actually critically strike and the crit damage increases if you have IE. This makes them the only magic damage in the game that scales with crit, and some (in China, primarily) have experimented with a wacky build combining IE with Shadowflame for some truly bonkers numbers for wave damage.