I dislike the buffs given to every AD assassin this patch.
Kha'Zix in particular. Those buffs were way too big. He's an absolute terror now, despite the changes to Duskblade.
Now I'm forced to play tank supports again.
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Lee is by far the worst. Always oppressive; never fair.
It's not just Kha'Zix. I dislike his buffs the most, because junglers have the most potential to impact the game. And Kha'Zix just got a massive increase to his potential to impact the game. Graves, Kayn, Rengar, Nocturne, Shaco, Talon, Zed, Wukong, Yi (indirectly through Guinsoo's changes, watch some Cowsep clips, 1v3s and 1v4s with 2 items that are worthy of front page on Reddit). This isn't only an issue of, "I need to stand next to someone when Kha is in the game." If Talon or Wukong are in the game with Kha'Zix, I also specifically need to not stand next to someone, because they deal a lot of AoE.
Rengar damage comes mainly from ult and total AD, the Duskblade proc wasn't necessary for him to one shot. Kayn damage came from Dash in with the rectangle of doom and blue smite. No auto attack was necessary. Talon damage came from bleed, his jump combo from level 2 - long before he buys duskblade, and his Ult. They didn't lower the amount of lethality it gives, so it's not gonna make a big difference against squishies.
Plus, for Talon, Shaco, Zed, and Wukong - they buffed ignite by 100 damage. Oh dear, I lost 120 physical damage from Duskblade, lemme just get 95 true damage instead, in addition to the other buffs to my kit to make up for it.
They also removed Iron Skin, a further indirect buff to AD assassins.
Every AD assassin got buffed. Playing non-tanks is just gonna feel like absolute garbage now. I feel for the ADC mains who have to deal with this patch as squishies, and are cornered more easily into buying tabis, GA, and PD, lowering their damage potential by forcing defensive items by dint of existing in the game.
For now, I'll be banning Kha'Zix in every solo queue game I play.
All of that said, Lee got buffs and I'm not worried about those. That's because he was actually in a bad spot prior to this patch.
They put way too much power in isolation and took a bit too much from non-isolated targets.
How to counter Kha'Zix >> Don't be isolated If you're not isolated a ton of his damage gets cut, if you're dumb enough to be isolated when you fight him then it's your own fault if you die to him.
They also nerfed Kha indirectly with the Sudden Impact nerf. Used to have a 4 second cooldown. now it a has a 25
Kha didn't need any ad buff - he's already stupid op strong. The others largely deserved it due to them losing a similar amount of damage via duskblade. Lee - he's a different story. But he hasn't been op or meta this season, so I don't think it hurts too much since ult buff only affects mid/late game - not early game snowball potential.
I agree on the kah compensation beeing very questionable, but for most of them the compensations were perfectly fine.
That's just Kha'zix in general tbh.
Every other AD assassin is just underwhelming (except for Shaco).
AD Assassins have the most counter play and you're crying here because you have to pick Tanky supports to COUNTER THEM?
It seems like the tanky supports just aren't fun for you.
The funny thing to me is that they buffed kayn a lot, when in most of his builds he doesn't even build duskblade (darkin)
Misleading title. You just hate kha in this patch but yet you put "every ad assassin" in the title
Kha has been broken because he can repeat proc duskblade.
lets say kha with the good duskblade did 500 dmg on a Q, take away 100 dmg from duskblade and you get 400 dmg, now add dmg to his Q and you get 450 dmg.
kha was nerfed by 50 dmg :)
It's hilarious because, ad assassins were fine without Duskblade and op with. They didn't need any compensations at all. Never stops amazing me how easily Riot heavily favors AD champions and their ability to thrive in any situation.
Well, I like them. What are you gonna do about it? Huh?