My Idea for Kha'zix's W.

DiZ1904··1 votes·666 views

I know that after the Kha'zix W change a while ago it has been the least favored of all of his evolutions, even with the recent buffs to it's evolved form, it's still not as competitive with his evolved R. Rather, it is more situational, only needing it when wave clear is more necessary, or if the extra utility is deemed necessary. I know some people are probably going to rage at me for saying that and swear by his evolved W, but I'm not trying to make you wrong by using it. What I suggest is, instead of simply increasing the slow and giving his W a reveal, instead add a functionality to it whereas if you are hovering your cursor over an isolated target, you can direct the spikes toward that target, with each additional spike hitting the target having diminished effect(say 30% effect). So it would function similar to Urgot's acid hunter when the target has the corrosive charge debuff on them. If this function was added, the extra slow could be removed from it, since with all three spikes hitting a target(best case scenario, the spikes would still arc inward and can be intercepted), the slow would cap at 48%, nearly what the buffed version is now. The numbers can be adjusted, this is just an idea I've been pondering for a while, giving his W more utility without making it colossally overbalanced(IE when it used to proc unseen threat). Thoughts? Yea? Nay?

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12tales2 votes

I know that after the Kha'zix W change a while ago it has been the least favored of all of his evolutions, even with the recent buffs to it's evolved form, it's still not as competitive with his evolved R

I'm assuming you haven't played Kha'Zix in the past... two months or so?

Evolving W is pretty much mandatory right now, most of the time as your first or second evolution. Evolving R hasn't been worth it for a long, long time.

DiZ19041 votes

I actually have played Kha'zix more recently, but how is evolving W mandatory? I'm not trying to be ignorant, I'm just not sure how the value of a slight utility increase is higher than that of 4 extra seconds of stealth and movement speed. Sure the extra spikes in a cone is nice, but out of all the high elo Kha'zix games I've seen, only one of them had the W evolution. Every other one had his R evolved.

12tales1 votes

I'm surprised. Kha'Zix's primary niche as a jungler lies in the enormous poke that he provides, coupled with his ridiculous cleaning power. The addition of a 50% slow, the ability to gain vision over walls (particularly at baron and dragon) and the sheer long range damage output offered by his evolved W are all far higher impact than a slightly longer duration mini-ghost. We're talking about a champion with the second highest base movespeed in the game, plus a 900 unit gapcloser that resets - we don't need no stinkin' ults to position.

I dunno what region you're watching, but if you look at KR solo queue, Kha'Zix is evolving E and W first and second in some order pretty much every game. Every professional jungler is doing the same in NA/EU/CN/KR.

DiZ19041 votes

Bah, I just wish it would do SOMETHING else rather than just an extra slow and reveal. Like extra AD scaling or base damage or something. Maybe I'm just nitpicking too much. It just doesn't feel...significant. I dunno, maybe I'm over-thinking it.

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