Talk:Kha'Zix/@comment-24613667-20150609203818/@comment-9705522-20150612002008

Actually, Kha was OP precisely 2 times (the periods were pretty long though). One, old W Kha, thanks to ridiculous poke. They didnt really touch him (some minor number nerfs here and there, but nothing major), until they went ahead and fixed him (keep in mind, he was ridiculous before the fix). And then Kha was in a perfect state for a very long time.

More precisely, up until patch 4.3, where Riot randomly decided to nerf his damage and buff his tankiness (and I mean randomly literally here. Kha saw some play, but not much, and there were no complaints about him. Even his win rate, which people very often use incorrectly as a measurement of power, was at exactly 50%). Then he was broken, and it took them forever to fix him. After which he saw a lot of play as a utility pick, which they decided was reason enough to nerf him (ironically enough they nerfed everything but his utility. So, everything but the reason he was so popular. And on top of that, he wasnt even worth a nerf).

What is both sad and hilarious at the same time though, is that fixing Kha right now is exactly as easy as it was 10 patches ago. Simply do a major rollback. We know Kha was absolutely perfectly fine and balanced in patch 4.3. So, just rollback everything to 4.3. Undo every single change you made, dont leave any of them out. Boom, Kha is fixed.

Also, I dont think that they should be afraid of making Kha broken. The last time they managed to do that was by taking a balanced champion, and buffing the crap out of his bruiser side. Currently Kha is a worthless champion, so even a major buff (unless its absolutely insane) will be incapable of breaking Kha. And at least you could fix his glaring issues. But no, instead lets focus on other champions that need it far less.

I mean, I get why they havent reverted their changes yet. Riot really hates to admit that they fucked up. This isnt the first time where a change turned out to be completely and utterly destructive to the champion/game. They have never fully reverted the changes, even if they were changes that couldnt be worse. Even reverting part of it is exceptionally rare (the only case being Urgot, which was part of a nerf that took a tier 1 champion, and made him so bad he got his own trash tier BELOW reworked eve).