An Opinion On Kha'Zix

TehNACHO··1 votes·424 views

Well since there's a lot of threads on the bug lately, I think now would be a fun time to jump in.

So I've commented on this before, and hopefully this will give you guys a good idea of where I'm trying to go with this.

What if Kha'Zix's evolutions are designed around his Isolation mechanic? Doesn't it seem odd to anybody that despite his duality in unique mechanics, having Isolation and Evolution, they have such little interaction? Kha'Zix's Evolution mechanic for example plays a role in interacting with his Unseen Predator passive thanks to invisibility triggering it, and evolution increasing the amount of times one can go invisible; that's a good case of synergy within his kit.

Isolation however has very little application with his Evolution mechanic. One of his Evolutions straight up relies on it to be at its most effective but there's no way to really trigger it as Kha'Zix lacks the tools to really do anything other than hope his target is far away from others. Even that is difficult given how big Summoner's Rift is, and how few tools Kha'Zix has to travel long distances.

I don't play Kha'Zix very heavily and so I won't pretend I know what he needs, but I certainly do think it would be good for his kit if it had much more synergy. Maybe if his E evolution was linked to traveling longer distances, like an outside of battle movement speed bonus, for example, which solves one of the problems I mentioned earlier. I honestly think if Kha'Zix had more tools to pull more reliability out of Isolation mechanic, it can go a long way to making him a far more consistent champion, and put him in line for necessary buffs and safer nerfs.

3 Comments

Veraska4 votes

i play a lot of kha'zix and while i think more synergy is always a good thing i think you might be missing the point on what isolation is and what its intended to do to kha'zix.

kha'zix is a very very well rounded champion, he's kinda like lee sin actually he's got a lot of tools built into his kit, a ton of slows, sustain, resets, stealth, -admittedly he doesn't gain all of this until he's around level 16, but he's a really versatile champion, now to make kha'zix absolutely not bonkers to play against they had to do something to his damage, but with low damage you can't function as an assassin, so they made his damage extremely high in opportune windows, as opposed to just being flat strong.

the reason they nerfed his W so much was because kha'zix is balanced around the fact that his optimal damage potential can be curved by coordinated team play (more so then any other assassin) and then they nerfed the isolation range to further enforce this intended weakness.

it'd be fun if kha'zix could play with isolation more, but its definitely there for a reason, to keep arguably the most well rounded assassin from also consistently having obscene point n click damage on top of all of his other cool stuff.

isolation is there for a reason now what would be cool if you gave more power to kha'zix's abilities against targets that are isolated, like evolving wings gives you that movement bonus but instead of only when out of combat, he gains the movement when moving towards isolated targets, stuff like that.

this is all my opinion, i'm not the best player in the world, but i definitely play plenty of the bug.

Kalaj1 votes

{quoted} I don't play Kha'Zix very heavily and so I won't pretend I know what he needs, but I certainly do think it would be good for his kit if it had much more synergy. Maybe if his E evolution was linked to traveling longer distances, like an outside of battle movement speed bonus, for example, which solves one of the problems I mentioned earlier. I honestly think if Kha'Zix had more tools to pull more reliability out of Isolation mechanic, it can go a long way to making him a far more consistent champion, and put him in line for necessary buffs and safer nerfs.

dude... You are completely wrong. Kha has plenty of synergy with his kit and great mobility to go in and out of battles. The reason why you have a slightly harder time with isolation is because they nerfed it because khazix was just way too strong. He is in a decent place now but because the current meta and all the tanks he doesnt have much to assassinate anymore.

Honestly though, you need to play the champion more to fully understand what he needs to make him strong. Posts like these are just half assed because you are upset you played him one game and got dumpstered on. Keep in mind, I am also no expert in khazix but what you are saying just seems so wrong to me.

Snake Town1 votes

I think kha is in a good place right now and I play him alot, if anything I'd say make 'pets' like elises spiders not unisolate

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