Talk:Kha'Zix/@comment-5077844-20140831191928/@comment-15244341-20140908135650

Except, if going for the "on paper is the thing that matters" then everyone should play goddamn Gunblade+DFG+Deathcap Morde. Pentakills all day all the time, yo. I honestly can't think of anyone that says that you should pick a champion because "on paper" it looks good. The Lee Sin vs Elise matchup is precisely the best example of that. Do maths and Lee wins against Elise. But in game, you suddenly ambush him and he is at half health and you have spiderlings ready to block his Q or you E over it or whatever.

Also, top lane tanks are tanky. Assassins have burst but no DPS. Assassinating a tank as a zero defensive stats assassin (exception being BotRK Zed) is dumb because the popular tanky top champions have high base damage and buy at least one damage item. You are not bursting them, and since they are twice as tough as you but have far more sustained damage and CC than you do (hi top lane Maokai/Gragas/Alistair) you ain't killing them solo unless they have been utterly crushed in lane.

Again, people should not go "X is viable/not viable because LCS". LCS is it's own little world and has almost no application to how solo queue works. Obviously, popular LCS picks tend to be strong in solo queue too, but some (Shen used to be quite popular) are actually not playable at all outside of properly organized teams. Also, LCS players tend not to get utterly demolished and have excellent map awareness, so they tend not to feed as hard as people do in solo queue. Gave first blood as Gragas? Now they play defensive, trying not to feed anymore and are actually pretty good at it.

Still, Kha is spammed in ranked all the time. In Plat I see him in about half of my games (Plat II at the moment). I've watched streams and everyone and their mother plays him. I'm afraid I can't see why people thing he is bad. He is even FLEXIBLE. That is awesome for an assassin.