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Tinjus' Ultimate Kha'Zix Jungle Guide for Season 14

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simple cool guide!

Still good for 11.13?

Deep guide and very clear, nice

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Just getting back into League and picked up Kha when my other main got banned. Your guide was amazingly helpful and I may have found a new main.

So useful!

Hey Tinjus, I was wondering what you think of items like Collector, DD, or GA? Also I'm just getting into Kha'Zix again after playing him a few time when he was free and your guide has helped me get more insight to items and runes for Kha, thank you!

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Death's dance is good, GA and Collector are very average and IMO shouldn't be built

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hey Tinjus.
you were the reason I started Playing Kha'zix.
Thank you for all the guides and streams.

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Awesome and most complete guide.

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Thank you!

Hey Tinus, when are you going to be adding your HOB rune page to your guide? it looks like a lot of fun to use.

got some bonus tips from your youtube, tyty

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Nice job!

amazing guide from an amazing khazix player!

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Thank you!

Hey Tinjus,
I have a few questions about itempriority in patch 6.22
I saw ur latest game results and i have seen u start a lot with cleaver and duskblade but i dont know in what situation do i have to start first with duskblade and when do i start with cleaver?
Also has ghostblade fallen off this patch and when du u descide to use tiamat?

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Since lethality has been implemented item builds have changed a little bit. Its a mediocre stat so unlike armor pen I don't prioritise it. Right now I've been having success with the duskblade + cleaver combo.

So if I were to evolve Q, I would go with black cleaver instead of duskblade first. This is due to the fact that I'd get 40% CDR early, which means I can spam my Q much faster.

If I were to go R, I'd go duskblade so I can have more burst when executing the stealth maneuvers. Duskblade is ridiculously strong in this patch so I'm actually willing to call it a core item at this stage. Youmuus just doesn't measure up to the damage duskblade deals, but the movespeed and CDR can still be fairly useful. If I do not plan on evolving Q, i'd probably replace Black Cleaver with youmuu's or something else.

Thats pretty much the basics of it. I'm still updating the guide, trying to figure out the optimal item builds and stuff. Evolutions is pretty much done, as well as the Runes and Masteries.

Also tiamat is still a personal preference thing, but I'm finding it to be a lot more useful than before because of the changes to the camps. I've just started to take a liking to it again.

I don't think you're giving lethality enough credit. Perhaps you don't know how it works but essentially it can be more effective than armor penetration after the enemy reaches a certain level. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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It will never be more effective than armor penetration, thats just because of the way it works. By the time it reaches that stage armor pen is made redundant anyway. Level 12 is the point where lethality is similar to the old armor pen. You do in fact get more 'old armor pen' at level 18 but by then the enemy INCLUDING the adc is likely to have at least one armor item, making it completely redundant. It does nothing for the early game aside from decrease your damage, so substituting them in place of AD runes is definitely not worth it. Not to mention the scaling potential is garbage. The entire point of armor pen is to snowball the game hard in the early - mid game, but theres no point if lethality only starts becoming useful at level 12. Much better off sticking to AD runes.

I'm not even sure about the math itself, but I've tested it myself and learnt a lot about the stat through other Kha'Zix mains and its pretty clear that its inferior to AD in most stages of the game. The only reason I can think of for taking them is for the new duskblade, since the passive scales off lethality. Even then, its not much of a difference.

MATH Lethality immediately grants 40% of its value as flat armor penetration. The remaining 60% scales linearly with enemy level.
EXAMPLE 10 lethality grants 4 flat armor penetration up front and 0.33 flat armor penetration per enemy level, capping at the full 10 once enemies are level 18.

So on some items like the new duskblade after level 8 it grants MORE Armor pen than before.

Ty verry much for ur response!
Its now a lot more clear to me.
Just 1 more thing about the evolutions...
So u said u almost figure it out is it not the same as before Q->E->and situational W/R

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The old evolution order (Q > E > W/R) is still viable, but now there are more options. You can go evolutions like R > E > Q/R now, or E > W > Q, and all of these are just as viable as the old path. These changes mean that there are now a variety of options to choose from, making Kha'Zix more diverse.