Talk:Kha'Zix/@comment-5211662-20140909084103

To somewhat solve Kha'Zix's damage weakness, I have tried to do some options, and they really worked well.

1) I have started to max W, but evolve Q first, as a guy below suggested. The damage from evolution is separate from the base damage, and you still have the scalings, so Q still deals shitloads of damage even when you don't max it first, as long as you evolve it first. I max Q second obviously, however.

2) When going jungle, I buy a Spirit of Elder Lizard, and then I buy a Ravenous Hydra, which really works well with the first clear. I buy Last Whisper as my armor penetration item due to it being necessary, especially if enemies decide to buy armor. However, I stopped building it alongside The Black Cleaver. I have came to the conclusion that stacking a lot of armor penetration isn't really that effective if enemies don't actually buy significant amounts of armor, and those items thogether don't offer a lot of raw AD, so this hurts Kha'Zix's scalings. Plus I really need the other item's effects, such as Hydra's sustain and Maw's survivability against AP. Generally I buy Last Whisper because it offers enough armor penetration, and is more consistent than The Black Cleaver, and I get enough CDR from purchasing items like Ionian Boots ant the Spirit of Elder Lizard. But I consider purchasing The Black Cleaver if there are no enemies stacking armor at all (this rarely happens, however) as it is more effective than Last Whisper if enemies have lower armor. If there is more than one enemy champion stacking significant amounts of armor, then I can consider to buy both.

3) Generally I buy Ionian Boots of Lucidity due to the extra cooldown reduction, and stacking cooldown reduction also helps to increase Kha'Zix's damage, indirectly. The only situation where I buy Mercury's Treads instead is if the enemy has lots of CC.

4) I have stopped to build Kha'Zix as a tanky fighter every time. There are some situations where I build tanky, however, If I am behind and/or I am having a bad game, having a negative KDA, then there is no point on building damage as I will not be able to kill anything anyway. This is a situation where I buy tanky items so that I can at least be useful to my team, soaking the damage.