Wait, Kha'zix is the weakest assassin in the game?

Aiqua·Mar 3, 2016·2 votes·885 views

wat

I dunno, man. Judging by my recent games with kha'zix he has clear high points, low points and counterplay, but that is odd considering after what, four games of dealing ludicrous damage after even falling behind earlygame, and 1shotting everything, tank and adc alike(whenever anyone was isolated they were instakilled) the enemy team were all screaming "WHO FED KHAZ" in all chat every time. I dunno who, tbh. I get my warrior and there is no escape after that.

SO, if he's the weakest assassin, then assassins are a HUGE problem. if tanks taking 1k damage from a single q AFTER resistances is the weakest, I want to know what's the strongest. If I'm not mistaken and Khaz is the weakest, then there needs to be some serious rebalancing going on.

10 Comments

JbelsMar 3, 20161 votes

Kha is the only assassin in the game who can only instaburst people when they are alone. If he tries that shit in teamfights, it takes longer, and he's susceptible to being killed in the time it takes to try. Doesn't help that the majority of his damage comes from one ability, and the rest comes from two spells, one with a decent cooldown (W) and one with a longer cooldown, unless he gets a kill or assist

Hello I am BirdMar 3, 20161 votes

He's really bad in team fights, but does well as a TRUE assassin when you get caught out alone.

Zero Skill TankMar 3, 20161 votes

kha'zix he has clear high points, low points and counterplay

And most other assassins don't, at least not that much, that simple. Problem with assassin archetype is how they are all about binary 100-0 killing someone, as assassin players call it, "doing their job". If assassin has actual, meaningful counter-play like Kha does, they will either be garbage against any team that is organised enough to make this counter-play, or they will need to be extremely compensated in other areas, like Zed is today and Kha used to be.

Look at Zed - you can easily deny him from killing people in teamfight, that's true, but he is compensated for that so much than in average game he deals more damage than average Vayne does, and almost as much as quite broken champ like Kogmaw does.

Kha compensation was supposed to be his damage reduction, but that lead to problems and was removed.

AlwaysByMySideMar 3, 20161 votes

{quoted}

And most other assassins don't, at least not that much, that simple. Problem with assassin archetype is how they are all about binary 100-0 killing someone, as assassin players call it, "doing their job". If assassin has actual, meaningful counter-play like Kha does, they will either be garbage against any team that is organised enough to make this counter-play, or they will need to be extremely compensated in other areas, like Zed is today and Kha used to be.

Look at Zed - you can easily deny him from killing people in teamfight, that's true, but he is compensated for that so much than in average game he deals more damage than average Vayne does, and almost as much as quite broken champ like Kogmaw does.

Kha compensation was supposed to be his damage reduction, but that lead to problems and was removed.

Most mid laners out-damage Vayne (who does below average damage per game for an ADC). In fact, mid laners have higher average damage per game than any lane.

http://champion.gg/statistics/#?sortBy=general.totalDamageDealtToChampions&order=descend&roleSort=

Teemo is the only non-mid laner in the top five, and that's because, like the number one, Karthus, Teemo can do damage to you while being on the other side of the map.

EcchiOtakuTMMar 3, 20161 votes

All the assassins have counterplay though.........

Kha's issue is the lw+tiamat nerf in addition to them removing using both Q+W when leaping. If they were to do anything they just gotta make W do respectable damage and he would come back.

Swae7Mar 3, 20161 votes

this thread is bull************************

AiquaMar 4, 20161 votes

nice. thanks. beautiful criticism. people like you make the world go round. thank you for existing sarcasm

Dr WMar 3, 20161 votes

guize i totally just shrekt some n3rds in bronze5 with ap illaoi idk why ppl think shes weak

AiquaMar 4, 20161 votes

ahem. wat I gave a serious argument and what did you do?

Automatically assumed I was bad.
Compared my question, not statement, to a bunch of bullshit
Used terrible grammar, which i go out of my way to avoid on most occasions(author's brain :D)
Made ZERO attempt to explain why Kha'zix is objectively bad, and instead said he was equal to AP illaoi.

people like you are the best :/