"The Hunt is on!" Time for Change?
tl;dr The event is now unfair to Kha'zix, ether make it matter to Rengar again (AKA lose stacks on his bonetooth again or have some perks locked out unless he kills Kha) or give Kha'zix that 4th evolution point normally.
Now Lets get this part out of the way, yes the odds of a Rengar and Kha'zix being in the same game, especially currently is very VERY Rare, but the fact of the matter is the possibility is still very real.
The hunt is on! the first character event, Kha'zix vs Rengar, Void monster vs Kitty Hunter, One gets their final evolution the other gets their head and max stacks on their item.
Except Rengar will always have the advantage.
I'm not saying this as a "Oh Rengar deals more damage" That's not what I mean, I mean that for Rengar killing Kha'zix means basically nothing now.
Lets take a step back to Season 4, Just before 4.5 Rengar's bonetooth necklace worked similar to how it still does, you kill people or get an assist? you get trophy's, get enough and some part of Rengar gains a boost, ether a longer ult time, longer jump, move speed whatever but there was two things that were different, one was it cost an item slot (think Viktors Hexcore) and two was if he dies, he lost stacks.
Then 4.5 came around and when it was moved as a trinket it had one significant change
Trophies are no longer lost on-death.
This mans a Rengar can go 2/11/16 and he would still have almost full trophy stacks, those boosts stayed with him forever now this made - for all intents a purposes - The head of Kha'zix only useful to a Rengar that is very far behind, I mean he's got no risk of losing those stacks, before a Rengar would do all they can to win because the Head of Kha'zix didn't lose stacks, so whats the point now? Bragging rights, just like the Ashe/Lissandra/Sejuani Event.
Meanwhile, Kha'zix has 4 skills to evolve but one will ALWAYS be unavailable to him unless he kills Rengar, so now we have one champion that would only want it for bragging rights or if he's massive far behind, since hey so long as he at least gets assists he'll eventually max it out and one that loses a spike on one of their abilities if he loses the event Hell if the other one is there in the first place!
Doesn't seem very fair does it?
It's time for Leagues first character event to change, to be just about bragging rights to not rob power from a champion, especially since one of those champions isn't actually locked out or at risk of losing that power if they lose.
So what needs to be changed well there's two ways we can go with this.
- We can make it so Rengar WOULD want to fight this event and win, give him risk again
- We make it like the Ashe/Liss/Sej event, Bragging rights and nothing more
For the first one it's pretty simple, one or two changes would have to be made to Rengar's bonetooth
The first one is to give back his "Loses stacks upon death" on it, give him the risk that he will ether gain a stack, lose a stack or stay where he is when he ganks a lane.
The second one is he can only get a stack if he himself kills the target, This would do two things, for one it would mean Rengar needs to risk a lot more outside of rooting a target and letting the team blow them up (Could lower the stacks needed per perk to compensate if needed) and two it would mean Rengar would want to counter jungle more, to catch the other jungler to guarantee that kill.
Or if we're gonna make it just bragging rights there's just one change that would need to be done, Give Kha'zix that 4th evolution point normally, Hell just do what you did with Viktor, upon evolving the third ability the last one is evolved as well, a simple and quick fix, Suddenly Ether Rengars have to risk more for their kills or nether are locked out of power (which honestly, Rengar never was given all the head of Kha'zix use to do is never lose stacks) just because one lost or both weren't in the same game.
