Riots Live-balance team absolute incopetence and Kha'Zix
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Originally i planned to write a long post on this topic, but i had too much work to do in my job and school (and my english is terrible so number of mistakes would rise exponentially with lenght of my post, and even i would get lost in them... but back to the topic)
Lets get it started... at first i will remind you of one good joke riot posted some while ago... all this is regarding his changes after his Q got nerfed to the ground and his W got INSANE utility buff...
a.) The utility and strength of evolved W is too reliable in combination with Kha'Zix's base kit, so he can get the best of all worlds by maximizing his utility while also being a high-threat assassin. Or b.) Kha'Zix's evolved Q is too weak to properly use as a primary play pattern, so he's forced to max / evolve W to stay relevant in the game but doesn't really want to. We strongly suspect the first case is more true (and this is reflected in our change).
WTH??? after i finished laughing i wanted to ask, how is khazix Q reliable when it doesnt deal any dmg if theres another enemy in radius comparable to amumus ult... and how can he be assassin with one over-200 dmg ability on 8s cd as his only way of dealing dmg... but then things happened and i didint... nvm... we knew that b.) was right... i just waited that after his gameplay didnt change at all and just his winrate dropped a bit, riot will realize sth is bad with this way of thinking...
what happened next...
The increased cooldown to Void Spikes should see this jumping and slashing jungle-bug rely a little less on poking from afar and more on what he's really about: jumping and slashing (and jungle-bugging).
WTHpart2??? champion that doesnt have any reliable way of doin dmg in close range, gets his poke even more nerfed in attempt to force him into close combat? like hell that will happen... again only change this thing did was, that he stays out of combat even longer, cuz it takes him more time to poke someone to 10% hp so he can kill them with his aa/hydra/q-that-deals-aa-dmg... so his interaction with players got even lower... (not even saying how it hurts his sustain which is already terrible in new jungle)
so did his winrate... every change riot did just lowered khazix winrate... didnt change a thing on his play pattern...
so what is happening here? riot doesnt realize that khazix problem is his overloaded utility and nonexistant dmg... he isnt assassin... he is support...
after first changes to his W giving him slow and vision i wrote one longer reaction about his popularity having connection to his similarity to nunu, who was popular at that time... it was completely ignored...
now khazix is still played... ofc he is... his model is awesome... but his abilities are not...
his winrate is consistently just out of bottom10... and its not similar to bottom10 LB or zed, which are still fairly popular and have winrate spikes in higher elo... kha sux consistently through whole playerbase... at lower elo he has constistently low winrate which isnt as low as it should be (considering lack of players ability to work with vision and CC), just bcs he has some scalings... this is enviroment where ap garen works... so 45-47% is understandable... as elo goes higher, dmg part of his kit becomes less and less important (heck like there is any dmg that would be worth mentioning) and he is used just as ranged vision and slow tool... he is good with compositions that can work around him, but he cant do anything alone... again, on champ that is only moving slow-and-vision-bot and is completely reliable on dmg of his team, 45-47% winrate is understandable...
fast TL;DR: khazix aint assassin... he is support... his winrate sucks almost as much as his dmg and he is picked just bcs of pros wannabes and crazily good model.
lets continue...
why i am writing this? bcs i am frustrated... khazix is my favourite champ... i jungled with him since he was released, even when he was considered weak.... i was playing him as assassin even when the bruiser build was forced on everyone... i have both skins and i love his model and most parts of his kit... i got over many nerfs and changes he received, lowering his kit fluency and interaction, bcs i was still able to play him the way i loved... but i cant do it anymore... my favourite bug was turned into jumping nunu with aoe snowball...
what i want? well i wanted that incopetent evil teemo-fan that made this last changes to be fired... but christmas are coming near, and we should be nice to each other... so maybe just give him other work? like doin dishes or sth where he cant screw up as much?
or let him do this, but put him in charge of yordles and get someone who can actually think about champs he plays to rework khazix a bit...
bcs after that W screw-up from few patches that gave him this crazy utility, khazix will never be assassin again... he cant have enough dmg with this amount of utility you gave him (who knows for what reason)... nerfs didnt change anything... they just lowered his winrate (even today you could see H2K playing kha... same way as he always was)... he needs rework... and a good one...
there werent any changes in last patch, nor are they on PBE... so i am writing this in hope, someone from riot will react and tell us, they didint discard khazix as they did with urgoth or old olaf and that they are still wroking on him, resuliting in soon changes that will move him from annoying-infinite-poke-slow&vision support to assassin again...
its preseason.. preseason is time for change... so give us some drastic measures! i dont care about bein hurt for a short time, if it will result in long term happiness! and i think there are few with same approach...
TL;DR-final: Kha sux, nerfs wont change anything and he needs rework...
Merry Christmas!
I would appreciate if someone could scatter some baits around...
Thx in advance...
Edit: Turned out quite long anyway... Sorry...
Edit2:
Kha'Zix is in a decent place
From new patch notes... Are you fucking kidding me again? Riot openly provoking people here... Khazix has problems clearing first 3 camps without dying (he needs pretty good leash)... And now u need even 100 more gold to upgrade machette... this change completely screws over weak junglers like eve and khazix... they wont be able to clear at all now... not even mentioning how some troll can think that dependance on absolute enemy retardation so u can kill sth is a good spot... u have to max W to even survive jungle and evolve Q to get double scaling from levels and even after that u need some noob walking in absolutely deserted place to be able to duel him... THATS NOT A GOOD SPOT!
Edit3:
Latest patch notes... Warrior enchant AD reduced, bcs lee/j4/vi are running rampart... kha meanwhile dying to blue buff bcs he didnt get a leash and then dying again after tryin to gank a lane and getting counterganked by a tank with 2 more levels... (lower hp during clear has only eve... and slower clear maybe shen...)