First off, Kayle is an exceptionally strong top laner.

She works particularly well against characters with no gap closer. Since Kayle has a slow, a movement speed enhance, and a temporary ranged attack, melee characters who can't efficiently close the gap to Kayle get extremely sad in lane. Kayle players want to poke at you and discourage retaliation. When you try to close in on her she will Q you, once you run away she will activate her ranged attack and slap you around.

Naturally characters like Jax who have a gap closer and high amounts of burst damage are good against Kayle, also things that have sustain in lane like Nidalee can match up well.

But that isn't most top laners, so what can one do when stuck against Kayle 1v1 top lane?

- Try to avoid her when E is active. E lasts 10 seconds, and is on a 16 second cooldown. If you are melee and want to fight, try and wait until the E fades to go in for your attack (that way she doesn't hit you from 525 range while you try to engage her)

- Try to get into the brushes in lane. If you force Kayle to start the fight at melee range, you usually have an advantage. Her biggest advantages come from poke, range, and heal.

- Keep in mind that Kayle has high mana costs. She can't pull off the poke game forever. If you bring a couple of extra health potions into lane you may be able to withstand the barrage of poke.

- Kayle pushes the wave very quickly when using her E ranged attack. If you can coordinate, have your jungler pay extra special attention to top lane since Kayle is probably always pushed up past the halfway point in the lane.

So from all this we can agree that Jax, Yorick, and Nidalee can counter Kayle? Am I right?