Allow Kha'Zix to have all Evolutions

Immortal Strife·4/11/2015, 1:35:01 PM·7 votes·672 views

Kha'Zix currently is underwhelming and out of the meta in pretty much every role. Let's face it the insect could use alittle love and I think I've found away to bring the bug back to life.

Awhile back (patch 4.17) Vicktor received a gameplay update that removed the limitations of a Augmentation options given within a single game. The reasoning to do so was, "First, we wanted to update Viktor so he fundamentally achieved his design fantasy of an evolving and customizable creator. Old Viktor frankly failed at this fantasy: he had one solid upgrade path, two crappy ones, and could only augment himself once through the course of the game. We wanted to recreate the creator’s creative side, and decided to take him back to the drawing board for a fundamental update to his augment system". I believe this same logic should be applied to the current state of Kha'Zix-he's just not reaching his fantasy appeal or potential.

My proposal is to give Kha'Zix access to all four of his evolutions in every single game, provided the length of a game allows such to occur. Doing so would bring more clarity to the fantasy that is Kha'Zix-the evolving assassin. I also believe a baseline for Zha'Zix balance could finally be achieved, and if not easily manipulated, by bring all four abilities online. For the longest time (pretty much since release) Kha has always been a tricky bug to balance because of his limited evolution design, by only having 3/4 of his evolution available within a single game his evolutions have been often made too strong or too weak resulting in nerf after nerf or change after chage..leaving Kha'Zix in an awkward and very maligned state.

I personlly would like to see Kha'Zix have acces to an evolution at the very beginning of a game, this would absolutely change how Kha is played, but with his current state, such a change merited. I would also be fine with any additional balance changes if his kit became too strong provided he keep the ability to evolve completely.

If you would like to see the Kha'Zix fantasy finally achieved comment and share your thoughts, maybe we can even get a Red post with an opinion on such a change.

  • I'm aware that such a change would alter the interaction of the Kha' Zix vs Rengar match-up.

10 Comments

DrCyanide4/11/2015, 2:33:18 PM3 votes

Right now, both Viktor and Kha'zix have 3 evolutions available to them. I think you're sadly mistaken if you think that Kha'zix is in a state anywhere comparable to pre-rework Viktor. There's a massive difference between "here are 4 options, pick 3" and "here are 3 options, pick 1"

lightdragoon884/11/2015, 2:26:01 PM2 votes

Khazix Vs. Rengar

Worst Mid Ever4/11/2015, 2:06:34 PM1 votes

kha'zix is still a jungle god for solo q m8, that said I'd love old his missing HP% evolved Q in this cinderhulk tank cancer meta

kcStranger4/14/2015, 3:14:06 AM1 votes

I actually kinda agree, especially if they don't plan on buffing the R evolution anytime soon. That evolution is almost universally ignored, so why not just let Kha'Zix get an extra evolution at level 18?