Talk:Kha'Zix/@comment-66.25.5.249-20121228234513/@comment-4677525-20121229085907

Honestly, S3 put a lot of assassins that were considered "weak" in S2 in a much stronger place. This is for 3 primary reasons:

- Global movespeed buff making high mobility champs even better than before.

- Crystalline Flask allowing assassins to output their naturally high damage, while shrugging off retaliation

- Brutalizer is still really strong despite the nerf.

This basically has turned the mid-lane into assassin/bruiser haven and now people are realizing that very few mids can compete with champs like Kha' Zix and Pantheon. This is primarily why champs like Kha' Zix, Pantheon, and Jayce are seeing a lot of bans in high-elo. It is only a matter of time before lower-elos catch on to the success of the bruiser meta (I'd give it one tournament) and most AP carries (barring champs like Swain, Vlad and Gragas with durability or TF, Eve and Katarina with high roaming potential) will fade away unless Riot does something to intervene.