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What happened to Kha'Zix?

Æsh·1/12/2015, 8:11:27 PM·2 votes·2,876 views

So. In Kha'Zix chapmion spotlight you can CLEARLY see that he is a assasin. In the recent patches, I feel like Kha'Zix has become more of a Tank kinda. Because if enemy team has any form for CC Kha Khant ( see what i did there :3) just jump in and get a kill. He may be lucky and deal some damage. But because of he has 0 damage without the isolation, He is Shit. All you can do with Kha is spam W and wait for enemy to be at 0,1 HP and then you can leap in for it and MAYBE get the kill. I really feel like Kha has changed WAY to much since he came out. And on my first account i remember to always play Kha because he was fun. For example E-W-Q combo was pretty dope. And i remember he's kit was easy to build around. So. He was pretty decent. People that could play him was good and people that sucked at him didn't do very well. But he was ok to learn and after a while you got the hang of it. Now: He is very hard to master. And he deals so damage early game, And maybe a little lategame. But if enemy team has some tanks your team is doomed. Even if you have two on your team. (And this is my opinions so dont come with hate or anything. And my spelling= Shit i know that. ) So the question is: What do you guys think about how Kha'Zix is played now instead of before. Personaly he sucks now. And he's Kit still is one of the best. But he need to become that Q assasin again. Not that Tank W spammer that gives vision.

13 Comments

xl Kirito lx1/12/2015, 8:48:20 PM2 votes

I would love to play Kha like he was pre-nerfs. I would hate to play against Kha like he was pre-nerfs. Giving an assassin mobility, sustain, and an execute is just bad design.

Subject 51/12/2015, 10:07:25 PM1 votes

I would rather see Riot do something about tanks before we fix up some more assassins to completely make most champions not even close to becoming viable .

Duobyte1/12/2015, 10:16:17 PM1 votes

Yes I would like to play Kha zix like the old times. However, I wouldn't like playing againts him, Those resets still haunt my dreams :s

Zirzon1/12/2015, 11:32:55 PM1 votes

I feel like what they did with Khaz is similar to what they did with Elise and Evelynn, except Khaz wasn't hit quite as severely. When you heavily nerf the damage of an assassin that needs to get into melee range to do its job, to the point where it can have difficulty soloing anyone, people often end up building tankier just to survive. They get forced into the bruiser role, or, if they get negligible results from building any damage, the tank role.

Dingding1231/13/2015, 12:58:51 AM1 votes

I feel like he needs more speed in and out of melee range. That's what seems balanced to me as far as assassins go; being able to harass from a distance or live forever in melee range are the two unhealthy extremes I don't like about assassins. Just having a goal of getting in, doing as much damage to single targets as possible and having the option of getting out is the best design philosophy for an assassin imho.

Kha'Zix hung around close to people too much with his ultimate. It was obnoxious, to say the least. I'm pretty sure that's why they nerfed it.

He just needs to move faster in and out, and do less in between.

PBnJelly1/13/2015, 2:08:37 AM1 votes

I feel like the biggest problem Kha'Zix faces right now is the new jungle. His constant nerfs finally ended in him being fairly balanced, but then soon after preseason happened and the new jungle came around. He's never been a farm jungler: no assasins should be able to farm and sustain heavily. However now he can barely even survive clearing a few camps. Try playing Kha vs a Lee, unless the Lee is awful, you're gonna be irrelevant compared to him early on. You hit level 3 and probably have to go back before ganking. Meanwhile he's still at 80% HP after clearing both buffs and goes and gets a kill on your midlaner. You go gank somewhere right after your B, but you're level 3 and the level 5 Lee comes and counterganks. You die and just like that you are 2-3 levels behind the entire game and probably wont be able to do much but farm, which Kha just happens to be bad at. I'm not saying Kha is terrible, and I would much rather they buff Elise before looking at him (+20 damage on her Q is NOT enough, Riot) seeing she has the lowest winrate in the game right now, sitting at about 40% (yes, she's lower than Urgot and Galio and all those guys). Also, while pre-nerf Kha was fun to play, it was not fun to play against. if you were 1-seconds worth of walking away from anyone on your team, he would jump on you, press Q, kill you then jump out. Honestly, Kha just has an impossibly hard kit to balance: I would say harder to balance than most assasins.