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Spells:

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Items

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Welcome, everyone, to my second guide on mobafire This time featuring . has been one of my favorite champions ever since his release back in season 2. He is a high burst assassin with a lot of mobility and a fairly high skill cap. I've seen a lot of players lately and they are constantly doing one thing wrong. They are stuck in season 2, relentlessly maxing and buy and it really bugs me.

In this guide I will show you the proper way to build including Spells, Items, Runes / Masteries and much more!

So let this be the revival of .

My name is Vuma - ign: SoundVox - I've been playing LoL for about 2 years starting from the pits of Bronze IV all the way up to Platinum III and I play on the North American Server. Here are my ranked stats for season 3

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Pros

+ High Burst with % Damage
+ High Mobility + Resets
+ Easy to Farm With
+ Very Low Cooldowns
+ Incredible Duelist

is a very early-game reliant champion. He needs farm and an early kill or two to get rolling into that high bursty assassin for mid-game. I like to start with a and pots because it gets you 360g closer to which will highly increase the damage from , and gives you enough sustain for the first 6 levels at least. is on a 3.5 second cooldown so you can take away around ¡250-280! Damage to an isolated target at level 1 every 3.5 seconds for only 25 mana at every rank! So abuse your damage whenever you can on your enemy laner. I honestly think that no champion in the game can beat 's damage at level 1 if isolated. If you make it past the first 4 levels you can utterly gut your opponent by jumping on them, slowing them with your passive, and using your Q after they pass their minions (creating the isolation for more damage) so play aggressive

Cons

- Very Fragile
- He Spikes at level 11
- Mana -Unlike Rengar: His rival-
- Super Low Ranged Damage
- Requires Good Positioning

One thing you need to know about is his early-game (lvl 1-9) can be very potent, but you have to play aggressive. Bite the enemy with when every they come up to CS and utilize your passive by auto attacking, then let them run past their minions so they get isolated and use again. If you don't gain a lead vs your opponent, you'll have a tough time later in the game. 's job is to shut down the enemy laner and keep them 3 levels behind you at all times, never giving them a chance to kill you! So being aggressive early game is very important. Remember that has little to no ranged damage with after his nerf/buff, this is also why you have to max . Even though you have low mana costs on your main damage ability, you still need to be conservative of how you use your mana. Don't just use on a minion to push the wave faster or get a last hit, because it's 50 mana lost and the jungler might be waiting in the side brush for you to use your . If you get caught out while your is on cooldown, you may have just cost your team the game.

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9
The best Glyphs for AD Casters, They scale way better into lategame than flat MR glyphs, and I take 9 of these

3
Pretty standard, take 3 AD Quints, helps you get by the early game, can also replace these with MVS Quints

9
Take 9 Armor Seals for obvious reasons, they're really the only good seals, especially against champions like to defend some of that AA damage

6
Very standard Marks for any AD based champion. I take 6 of these for the extra damage and for easy last hitting

greater mark of armor penetration

3
I take 3 extra armor penetration marks for good measure, giving you a good rounded rune page that scales well into late-game

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For the Offense Tree I take my first point in

^T1 for maximum damage

The next points I take are 4 in

for some good CDR and 1 point in

for easy last hitting. ^T2 I then take 3 points

in for extra AD per level.

^T3 I grab because it synergizes

with your passive, , being that you

can auto attack and slow them to get in range for

your abilities. I take for extra

early AD and for executing purposes.

^T4 Take for extra AD, and

for more penetration and the last point in ^T5

Utility has been updated, and is stronger then ever.

Now with the new mastery, which

inecreases your potions length by 10%, which is an extra

15 HP. Now, Along with ^T3Culinary Mastery You gain an extra

20 HP right when you activate it (as well as 10 mana)

In total giving 35 extra HP per potion as well as 10 mana.

I also take 2 points ^T1 for the extra

movement speed and 2 in for the little

mana regen it gives you, early game it's quite helpful.

And for my last 3 points I put them all into

^T2, Which will lower your flash to

270 seconds (300) and your ignite to 189 (210)

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I take 100% of the time on . It helps him escape very easily and - is very effective in catching up to people. Getting resets could score you your next pentakill

As like , I take almost 100% of my games on . It's very good against champions with HP-Regen abilities like and as well champions with or any Lifesteal/SpellVamp

Of course if you're Jungling you will take but don't take it at anytime otherwise

Ok if you somehow got in a que with Faker and he picks ...Then you take . Or if you are very comfortable with I guess you can take ...kinda like how some 's play, with / being your escape instead of

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Starting Items

with 3 is the start I go 70% of my games, It gives you good damage, enough sustain, + it builds into / .

I like to take for the passive against auto attack champions like or like (her passive) and for the great sustain that it gives.

if you are very confident against your matchup, then I will start with for incredible burst which will catch your enemy off guard for an early kill

Next Buys

should always be your first main goal as , It gives him ¹Damage, ²ArmorPen, and ³CDR! Which are 3 core aspects that needs, to be a threat

Just pick these up when you have some extra gold for them. Great early game items that will help you progress through the laning phase

gives you great health regeneration, decent attack damage, and an AOE auto attack reset which helps you clear waves very quick, which makes up for his

Core Items

This item is the build off from . It gives you extra attack damage - 75 - and 15% life steal, furthermore the active now applies with life steal. And you can cast the active mid !

Once you purchase , your damage will spike incredibly. Giving you 35% armor penetration along with 40 attack damage, it's a very low cost item for what it gives

Finish off that for the extra HP, attack damage, and the Unique Passive which amplifies your damage to a target by 5% each time you deal physical damage to it

The Rest

I like as my last damage item for it's all around attributes. It gives Damage, Ability Power, Movement Speed, and a lot more which will be discussed later

Since 's buff of extra magic resist, I've been buying it a lot more frequently. It provides a very good impression of "He has GA we can't kill him" well I fell it does

I get this enchantment for my boots around mid game when I have 475 gold laying around in the bank, great for quickly returning to lane and saving a tower or inhibitor

Discussion

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So far I have shown you what items to buy, but now let's expand on that and let me tell you why I buy them and why not others.

ATTENTION: READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULY AND PAY ATTENTION

First of all I would like to discuss /

Muramana

Let's start off with the reason that Muramana was good in season 2 (before Kha'Zix changes)
In season 2, Kha'Zix's strongest ability was Void Spike. You would max it first, Evolve it first, and spam the **** out of it.
It has a high mana cost with a relatively low cooldown, and it would proc your passive slow/extra damage Unseen Threat.
In that it had such a high mana cost, everyone would buy Tear of the Goddess for the great amount of mana/mana regen that it gives, and upgrade it when the stacking was complete.

Now! Since we are in Pre Season 4 Things...Have...Changed...

Kha'Zix no longer needs his Void Spike! I cannot exaggerate this enough.
You max Taste Their Fear!
It costs 25 mana at all levels!
It has a 2-3 second cooldown!
And it does more damage than Void Spike ever did!
80% of the time your jungler will give you the second AND proceeding blue buffs!

As of Patch V3.9:
Manamune
Unique Passive - Mana Charge
- Cooldown per charge increased to 4 seconds from 3.
- Updated the tooltip to clarify its actual functionality.
Season 2: (or any basic ability Taste Their Fear is the shortest cooldown) Taste Their Fear is the shortest cooldown) at every possible second that you could charge Manamune it would take approximately (if I did my math right) 170 charges (ability uses) which would take you around 8 minutes *ASSUMING YOU ARE USING AN ABILITY EVERY 3 SECONDS WHICH YOU NEVER WILL BE ABLE TO*

Now let's calculate the time of doing things besides using abilities
Dead: Let's say you die 6 times in one game, each death has a timer that progressively lengthens as the game goes on. But let's say that each death takes about 40 seconds (more or less)
6 X 40 = 2:40
Running:
- Mid to Dragon: about 15 seconds. Say you run to dragon 4 times per game or more.
  15 X 4 = 1:00
- Mid to Bot/Top: Takes about 30 seconds to reach another lane, and let's say you gank an ally lane about 6 times per game
  30 X 6 = 3:00
- Base to Mid: About 25 seconds (no homeguard) and you go back to buy items and return to lane probably 30 times in a game maybe? more or less.
  35 X 25 = ~14:30
- Add all that up and it equals 18:30 Time not farming/using abilities
So 6 minutes plus 18:30 = 24:30
Around the 30 minute mark is about when you will be able to fully stack your tear in Season 2 (assuming that's the first thing that you buy)
Season 3/4: Assuming the same circumstances as before ^ it would take you (ofcourse 170 charges still) but with the 4 second cooldown instead of 3 second. It will now take you approximately 11 minutes to stack the item completely. Now adding in the rest of the time spent in the game (18:30 more or less) = 29:30
(not calculating what time you bought Tear of the Goddess, which would be around the 6-7 minute mark)
So with that ^ it now takes 29:30 to stack a tear from the time you bought it (let's say around the 7 minute mark)
= 36:30
*THAT IS MORE THAN HALF OF THE GAME*

Now if you do manage to stack it faster by power farming lets talk about the damage numbers
Muramana
+1000 mana
+20 attack damage
+7 mana regeneration
Unique Passive - Awe: Gain attack damage equal to 2% of your maximum mana.
Let's say you now have a fully stacked Muramana and a total of 940 extra mana ( Kha'Zix's level 18 base mana) for a total of 1940 mana. 1940mana X 2%maximum mana = 29.8 extra attack damage + 20 flat damage from Muramana = 49.8 attack damage
Doesn't sound like a whole lot huh.
Toggle: Single target spells and attacks (on hit) consume 3% of current Mana to deal bonus physical damage equal to twice the amount of Mana consumed.
Now, let's say you are at full mana with the toggle on. Taste Their Fear costs 25 mana + 1940mana X 3%current mana = and extra 58.2 damage X 2 = 166.4 extra damage on your first use of Taste Their Fear decreasing by 3% depending on how much mana you have used.
Keep in mind that this effect only applies on your auto attacks and Taste Their Fear!
Now does that sound really worth it?
No, it's not!

Now hopefully this is enough information to convince everyone in the League of Legends community to stop buying this peice of **** item...please...

moving on...

ATTENTION: YOU CAN STOP PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION NOW

Ravenous Hydra

You can cast the active in the middle of Leap, which means you can assure that you will get the damage on your target and eliminating the time of the animation by casting it mid Leap (like how you could do before with Void Spike
15 Health Regeneration per 5 seconds, It's great for sustaining against a poke lane like Ziggs
It's Active gives you an AOE Wave clear, IMO: I count it as a 5th ability! It also gives you AOE auto attacks (making it easy to clear Minions / Jungle Camps / Other Champions even!)
Flat 15% Life Steal. Instead of having to stack Bloodthirster(by killing minions) to get to this amount of life steal, Say "Hell no! I want my lifesteal at one flat rate!"
Don't let the government take your life steal when giving up a kill! Stand up for your rights! We want our life steal to stay!

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Trinity Force

I think Trinity Force can work on any champion, but it's definitely not the best on every champion
It gives a little bit of almost every stat
The Phage passive which gives you movement speed after each basic attack is very strong in chasing opponents as it synergizes well with Unseen Threat
Sheen proc works very well with an Unseen Threat auto attack, you can slow your enemy and gain movement speed at the same time ( Phage)
Kha'Zix doesn't need anything from Zeal except the movement speed. You don't need attack speed on him, or critical strike chance, but I do have to admit it's pretty funny when you get a critical strike and instantly kill a full HP minion or take a huge amount of health from an enemy champion xD.

Spirit Visage

For an enemy team filled with an AP Mid + Top + Jungle I will take Spirit Visage as my defensive item, and if you are still going to take Guardian Angel, then replace Trinity Force for Spirit Visage
I love this item for its amazing Health Regen, and combined with Ravenous Hydra you will never have to recall and last super long in fights (as long as you have blue buff lol)
Gives a great amount of Magic Resist and Health as well

Mercurial Scimitar

Against a cc heavy team in which you could get caught out easily you should take this item, it removes all stuns and debuffs from your champion upon activation (yes even Death Mark)
Also great against AP Heavy teams with champions like Elise or Vladimir on them
65 attack damage is a great deal , the only problem I have with this item is it's cost is insane - 3700 gold - that's almost the same price as Trinity Force TONS OF DAMAGE

Mercury Treads

I only buy these when the enemy has an AP heavy team or Im getting dunked by an enemy AP mid laner/jungler
It gives you good Magic Resist along with 35% Tenacity

Randuin's Omen

this item is great for teams that are filled with auto attack reliant champions such as Vayne, Tryndamere, and Master Yi
it gives you a great amount of Health, Armor, and a great active that can help a lot in teamfights, as it slows the people around you.

Frozen Heart

This is the other item that you can take instead of buying Randuin's Omen
It's 100 gold cheaper, It gives you 400 mana, More armor - 95 - It gives cooldown reduction which is great on Kha'Zix and the passive slows the enemy's auto attacks in an aura around you by 20% - 1000 range -
this is the better option for Kha'Zix if you were to buy one of the two, as he takes good advantage of the Mana and CDR

heartless people

Elder Lizard

For jungling, this is the best item for Kha'Zix. Yes this is a guide for mid lane, but I do jungle as Kha'Zix every now and then, and this is the item you must rush
True damage!
30% increased damage to monsters!
10% cooldown reduction!
Gain up to 40 extra gold for killing a large jungle monster (large wraith/large wolf/large golem/wight) for each conservation stack you have. It really helps you get your big items easily

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Stats and Tactics

Unseen Threat

When Kha'Zix is not visible to the enemy team, he gains Unseen Threat. Unseen Threat causes his next basic attack against an enemy champion to deal 15 / 20 / 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 / 75 / 85 / 95 / 110 / 125 / 140 / 150 / 160 / 170 / 180 / 190 (+ 50% AP) bonus magic damage and slow by 25% for 2 seconds.
Unseen Threat lasts until consumed and has no internal cooldown.

Whenever you have time to run out to the side and become unseen, do it, but don't risk losing farm for reactivating your passive. is a great tool for keeping your enemy close to you when you are fighting and chasing. You can also use this ability to check if the enemy has warded a brush, by watching your bar above you abilities, see if you gain as a buff when you walk into a brush, if you don't, then the enemy can see you and it's warded.

Taste Their Fear

PASSIVE: Kha'Zix marks enemies that are isolated from their allies.
ACTIVE: Kha'Zix slashes, dealing physical damage to a single enemy. If the target was isolated, the damage dealt is increased by 45%.
PHYSICAL DAMAGE: 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 (+ 150% bonus AD)
DAMAGE TO ISOLATED TARGET: 101.5 / 145 / 188.5 / 232 / 275.5 (+ 217.5% bonus AD)

Evolved Enlarged Claws:
Increases range of Taste Their Fear and autoattacks by 50. Additionally, Taste Their Fear now deals an additional 8% of the target's missing health as bonus damage (max 200 vs monsters). Against isolated targets this damage is increased by 45% to 11.6% of missing health.

is going to be your primary ability, you are going to max it first and once you hit level 6, evolve it into your Enlarged Claws which will boost your damage incredibly to isolated targets. Try to force your enemy to become isolated before you use . By running to the back line of minions in lane, your enemy will naturally walk backwards to avoid getting chunked, once they do walk back far enough to be isolated, and use .

Void Spike

ACTIVE: Kha'Zix fires a cluster of spikes in a line that explode on contact with an enemy, dealing physical damage to all nearby enemies and slowing them by 20% for 2 seconds. Kha'Zix is healed if he is within the explosion radius.
PHYSICAL DAMAGE: 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235 (+ 100% bonus AD)
HEAL: 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 (+ 50% AP)

Evolved Spike Racks:
Enhances Void Spike to fire three spikes in a cone and increases the slow to 30%. Multiple explosions upon the same enemy do not deal extra damage.

The only time you should be using is to heal off of minions or to slow down a fleeing opponent. You do not evolve this ability (the way that I play) ever. Do not use it to poke, only use it to heal and to engage with.

Leap

ACTIVE: Kha'Zix leaps to an area, dealing physical damage to nearby enemies upon landing.
PHYSICAL DAMAGE: 65 / 100 / 135 / 170 / 205 (+ 80% bonus AD)

Evolved Wings:
Increases Leap's range by 300, and causes kills and assists scored by Kha'Zix to refresh Leap's cooldown.

I almost always take as my second skill when laning, and I always evolve it second, at level 11. And that is when you should be roaming a lot and looking to pick up kills with your resets, Bot lane being the easiest opportunity to pick up multiple kills and is most effected by ganks.

Void Assault

PASSIVE: Each rank of Void Assault allows Kha'Zix to evolve one of his abilities, granting it an additional effect.
ACTIVE: Kha'Zix enters stealth for 1 second, gaining 40% bonus movement speed while stealthed. Unseen Threat is also granted (even if Kha'Zix is revealed through stealth). Void Assault can be cast a second time within 10 seconds at no cost.

Evolved Active Camouflage:
Allows Void Assault to be cast up to three times. Kha'Zix takes 50% reduced damage while in stealth.

You are going to be leveling whenever you can, and always evolve it last. It helps incredibly in large team fights, and as of PreSeason 4 they have removed oracles and this works immensely toward 's advantage, as the only way of being revealed is from a now visible (that can be easily destroyed) or the (which only lasts for 6 seconds. You will use when all-inning, and when getting ganked if you cannot escape with only . Always use an auto attack after using a charge of as it reapplies in that you are creating a slowing continuum and they will not be able to escape easily without or another escape ability.

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is a high burst, high mobility assassin. He needs precise positioning and a confident mindset

Laning

I am the King of this lane and you are a mere peasant!

It is your lane to win or lose, not their's! You are Kha'Zix the Voidreaver!
Your mission is to poke at close range and deny the enemy laner farm as much as possible whilst remembering to last hit as many minions as you can, but never give up a minion for harass.
You don't get Gold by poking
When it comes time, that you must strike, prepare yourself by warding so you aren't rudely interrupted by any foul beasts in your ravaging. Once you are done, push the rest of the minions to put some damage on the enemy tower.
Remember to only use Void Spike when your health is getting low or when your jungler comes to help in a gank. Do not spam it, it costs a great deal of mana and having mana to spend could save your life when you are low
Use Taste Their Fear on minions to get secure last hits. Taste Their Fear has a very short cooldown and a very low mana cost. You can kill 2 minions that are low by AA-ing (auto attacking) then use Taste Their Fear on the next one.
Also use Taste Their Fear to tell the enemy champion "back off this is my lane" whenever they get close to you, scratch them right in their eyes and they won't bug with you any longer
Be that aggressive little bastard that Riot created you to be, and nothing less!

Roaming

This is where the fun begins!

Roaming is by far Kha'Zix's strongest attribute. After he reaches level 11 (when you evolve your [[leap) He becomes a crazy strong Grasshopper that had one too many redbulls for breakfast
Level +6: When you go to gank bot from the blue side, river brush and try to Leap directly on top of the ADC or Support, so that not only you get the damage from Leap but now you are also in perfect position for an auto attack with Unseen Threat and an isolated Taste Their Fear. After one of them has died now you can use Void Spike to slow the other down into another isolated Taste Their Fear and more auto attacks if possible
Level +6: Purple Side - Go around the dragon on the enemy's jungle territory and sneak through the tri-bush, then walk on the bottom path so there is no way they can get around you, slow one or both of them down with Void Spike and proceed. Don't use Leap until you need to catch up to them or else it will be wasted and they will easily escape with Flash
Past level 11 you can easily choose to dive your enemies with little to no help from your teammates (that is if the enemy is low HP) With Leap evolved you can fly in, grab the kill, and fly out with only taking 2 or 3 tower shots, and i think that is my favorite feature of Kha'Zix, It's an attribute of a true assassin
Top lane: if your top laner is tanky enough, you can choose to dive the enemy (when under turret) but if they are being push then simply walk through the river and ambush them from behind, remember to only use your Leap after they use their escapes. In Top lane you will have a lot more time to use your abilities effectively than in Mid Lane as the lane is a lot longer

Team Fights

Stay alive, do not die!

In teamfights your job is to either immediately eliminate high priority targets/squishy targets such as the ADC or the Mid laner OR Clean up the entire fight by applying your resets, chasing down your enemies one by one
Look for people that are out of position, chunk them down as they walk into the bush that you are in. Walk up to them, slap them a few times then jump over the wall to safety, but do not get yourself in trouble at any cost, make sure your team is nearby to back you up

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Thank you all for reading my guide, I appreciate constructive criticism and very much a +1 if you feel this guide is deserving of it! This guide took about 8 hours to make over the course of 2 weeks, I made all the banners myself and I found some of the separators on google. I hope this guide gives you a little better understanding of who is and how I think he should be played as of this Pre Season!

If you don't already know my opinion as to why their is no section for Matchups and Counters, it's because I honestly believe that if you are good at a champion there is no counter as long as you make it to late game.

Lots of love and have fun guys!

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12.24.2013 // Added Summary banner
12.28.2013 // Changed General Build
12.29.2013 // Changed the "Discussion" Layout in the Items Section
12.29.2013 // Added as an Optimal Starting Item
12.30.2013 // Added 2 more situational endgame builds
12.30.2013 // Made Separators smaller and replaced the old ones
1.3.2014 // Fixed a grammar issue
1.4.2014 // Made dividers in items section more suttle
1.4.2014 // Fixed coding issue in runes
1.5.2014 // Added Table of Contents
1.5.2014 // Added Special Thanks Section
1.6.2014 // Added Banner
2.6.2014 // Recreated the Table of Contents

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I would like to thank a couple of people for making this guide possible

~~First of all, Emikadon For allowing me to use her Table Of Contents that I embellished for myself :)~~
I would like to thank tehAsian for his very detailed comment that helped me a lot!
~~Thank you Veng Lmfao for the sick banner :)~~
And lastly I would like to thank all the sources from where I got my inspiration
emoriam's Irelia Guide
YayaFTW
GrandmasterD