Is Kha'Zix mid/top viable again?

YumaS2Astral··3 votes·1,272 views

I've recently used Kha'Zix mid/top, BEFORE the changes from 5.11 (because he is one of my favorite champions and I wanted to get mastery with him as quickly as possible) - But I feel that AFTER the changes from 5.11 he became a lot stronger because now it is way easier to get an isolated target during teamfights and skirmishes.

With that said, I've used him mid and found that he works well against immobile mages such as Orianna, Twisted Fate, Karthus, Viktor, Syndra and Ziggs. What I do against them is freezing the lane, wait for them to push, and then, leap at them and Q for tons of damage. People don't expect that Q does that much damage early game, and pushing lane against Kha'Zix is a very big mistake as it opens them for isolation.

He doesn't fare well, however, against Vladimir (because he can heal himself, counter the leap with his sanguine pool, and become too tanky to be bursted down late game), Lulu, Cho'Gath, Ahri, and he also fares poorly against other assassins due to the fact that compared to them, his early game is weak, though he outscales all of them.

At top lane I haven't tested him enough to come to a conclusion.

My build for him most of time has been: item 3074 item 3035 item 3156 item 3110 item 3102 (not necessarily on that order - and as for boots, I usually tend to choose between item 3158 item 3047 item 3111 depending from how well I fare on the game and what dangerous threats the enemy team has)

5 Comments

Craft Zeppelin1 votes

Khazix never been so fun for months really his Q evolve and W sustain is glorious If it wasn't for the tank meta you know.... Well we can always pick him when the enemy in only squishy in draft mode.

YumaS2Astral1 votes

Even with the tank meta, I still think that Kha'Zix is viable.

And to be honest, Kha'Zix can actually 1x1 most tanks. Even without the % damage, he can outsustain and kill them during a fight. Of course you shouldn't focus them during teamfights, and an exception of a tank that can beat Kha'Zix is Malphite.

KMannnnn11 votes

Khazix was never unviable, he just fell out of favor due to his nerfs making him not-egregiously-overpowered. He can still do fine both in lane and the jungle.

Best Darius KR1 votes

SHUSH Riot is going to nerf him if you're not careful!

Erotic Terrorist1 votes

My build is item 3042 item 3142 item 3117 item 3074 item 3153 item 3143 ;D

And yes, it's still really viable

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