Hi, I'm Mathmos and this is my second guide on Mobafire. Yes, second. On my normal account this thing doesn't publish properly so I was forced to make this account. The guide focuses on one of the recent additions to the League, Kha'Zix the Voidreaver. Kha'Zix is a melee assassin, and one of the best duelers in the game. This guide is unfinished and will soon include a jungle guide and more information. Please do not downvote this guide without leaving a reason. Now, without further ado, my Kha'Zix guide!

Feel free to send in your own results using this build. Feel free to also send in your results if you didn't use my build exactly, nothing is set in stone! If you would prefer your summoner name above your results, tell me so in your comment/PM giving me the link.

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Pros + // Great dueler. (1v1er) + // Decent lane sustain. + // Flexible. + // Great running away power. + // Is good at all stages of the game. + // Cool in-game appearance.

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Cons - // Requires good positioning. - // Teamfights can be hard. - // Hard to play. - // Focused . - // Rengar wants your blood.

• Summoner's Wrath : With this guide you will be taking Ignite and the extra 5 AD early game will help out tons with your ability damage and last hitting powers. If you do not take Ignite, this will still improve Exhaust and Ghost. If you take none of these, put another point into Butcher to improve your last hitting.
• Fury : Attack speed is another essential for AD champions. While this build doesn't focus on attack speed, it's still a nice thing to have.
• Sorcery: Kha'Zix is quite dependent on his abilities and CDR will help you gteatly when combined with your 9 Greater Glyph of Cooldown Reduction.
• Butcher : For improved last hitting and clearing of camps later in the game. If you feel you don't need the extra help, invest points in either Destruction or Havoc .
• Deadliness : Ahh, more precious AD. In the end this gives you 12 extra AD. It doesn't look like much but in a close fight it can really make the difference. (Assuming you have Ignite down, that is 20 extra AD of masteries).
• Weapon Expertise : This is one of the best masteries in the game. Most people don't really notice how much armor is reducing their damage output and this nullifies some of that.
• Brute Force : More damage, essential for any AD champion. Once again, the extra 3 AD will really help out with last hits and spell damage.
• Sunder : This isn't nearly as good as Weapon Expertise but early game 6 armor is quite a bit and this will make a difference. And winning the lane or not can effect the rest of your game.
• Executioner : That extra 6% damage on low health targets will really help your assassinating powers and last hitting. Also good in duels.

• Durability : The extra 6 health per level will help you out quite a bit, well as far as masteries go. You also need this to unlock Veteran's Scars which is a truly awesome mastery.
• Hardiness : The extra 6 armor can easily save your life early game, and in some cases even late game. If you are in draft pick and you see that the enemy top is AP, put 1 point in this and 3 in Resistance instead.
• Resistance : The 2 magic resist will help to slightly reduce the damage of any of your enemy top's magic damage abilities (if they have them) and the damage of ganks from mid or an AP jungler.
• Veteran's Scars : An extra 30 hp. Early game this will help tremendously with taking minion aggro. And I can't count how many times I escape with under 30 health. This thing is a real lifesaver.

• Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage: Due to Kha'Zix's awesome AD scaling, I find that flat AD works better than armor penetration on him. And if the enemies armor is really becoming a problem, just get Last Whisper earlier. You can swap either these or your marks for armor penetration if you really want it.
  
• Greater Mark of Attack Damage: Once again, flat AD is better on Kha'Zix. Because of all the extra AD you will have off masteries and runes, (at level 18 with Ignite down) you will have an extra 32 AD!.
  
• Greater Seal of Armor: Most of the enemies you will be against at top are AD champions, and the extra 12.69 armor will really help reduce their poke. Even if they aren't AD, this will reduce their auto-attack harassment and minion aggro.
  
• Greater Glyph of Cooldown Reduction: As I mentioned earlier, CDR is really effective on Kha'Zix. These, combined with Sorcery, should really help you kill your opponents with your abilities and to escape with Leap and Void Assault. These, like Sorcery, are very flexible. Feel free to get MR per level or flat MR runes over this.

Ignite is an awesome ability at finishing low health targets that would otherwise escape. As an assassin, killing low health champions is one of your jobs. This spell cannot be swapped if you see someone like Sion or Dr. Mundo on the enemy team. Flash is great for escaping or covering long distances to kill escapees when combined with Leap. If you Leap into a fight, this can be used if things get hairy and you need to make your escape. A smart player will not need this much and it can be swapped with Exhaust. If you do this, make sure to be careful where you leap and try to get into a fight with Void Assault when possible. Exhaust makes you virtually impossible to escape. In addition, you have to remember that it will lower its target's damage output and their armor, so don't just use it on fleeing enemies. Replace this with Flash if you think you can handle it.

(Note: After you evolve (if you evolve) Leap, Flash won't be necessary as you can Leap in, kill your target, and Leap out again. If you are jungling, this spell is essential for clearing camps faster while retaining health. When you start getting into mid and late game, you will also need Smite to secure monsters for your team, like dragon.

Ghost is a great spell for chasing fleeing enemies, especially seeing as you already have an inbuilt Flash in the form of Leap. This is also quite the good spell for running for your life, but you shouldn't be doing to much of that. If you do get this, do not get it with Flash. Cleanse is a good spell for heavy CC teams. I do not recommend getting this in blind pick and only get it in draft pick when they have some major CC. Make sure to wait for the right moment to use this and don't use it when you can still secure a kill/run away. I would only suggest getting Teleport when you are against a hard lane. Its only other uses are to backdoor and counter backdoor and that isn't really worth it when you can have things like Exhaust and Ignite. Barrier Some of you may recall me saying that Barrier was an awesome Summoner Spell and was only down here because you couldn't get it on Summoner's Rift. So why is it down here? Well it's simply because it's not as good in Summoner's Rift, a place in which you can simply recall when on low health, rather than using Barrier to give yourself enough health for an upcoming fight.

This thing is only good for tower baiting early game. Late game it isn't even worth an ADC auto-attack and if used in a life or death situation, you will still die. If you had any of the Beast Summoner Spells, you could possibly survive. If you got this in the jungle, you should see a specialist. If you got this in top lane, you do not know how to conserve mana at all. If you really need more mana, just get a flask! (You shouldn't neeeed this for mana though).

• Unseen Threat: Proper use of this spell can seperate good Kha'Zix players from bad Kha'Zix players. As far as passives go, it's one of the best, a good damage increase and an awesome slow. When harrasing the enemy with auto-attacks, only do so when this is active. When fighting people, weave in and out of bushes to continually proc this. You can also use Void Assault while fighting to get this active.
  
• Taste Their Fear (Q): This is your bread and butter and one of the most powerful basic abilities in the game. It scales massively of bonus AD, so getting lots of AD is very important. The ratio against isolated targets is higher, along with the base damage. Try and use this on isolated targets as much as possible, but still use it on targets that aren't. Try and only harass isolated enemies with this. This is also what makes Kha'Zix very good against long ranged champions. (They are isolated in fights). Max this second for damage.
  
• Void Spike (W): This is your only ranged harass and it can hit rather hard. If you want to use it to hurt your enemy, but don't need range to do so, use this up close for the heal effect, even though it scales with AP. This should be maxed first for a massive nuke when evolved as well.
  
• Leap (E): This is Kha'Zix's utility spell and as a result should be maxed last. It can be used to close the gap between you and an enemy, or to run away like a boss. As it still does deal damage, try and land on your enemies when you are using Leap to reach them.
  
• Void Assault (R): Ahh, your ultimate. It gives you stealth for 1 second and an extra 40% move speed for this time. Void Assault has many more uses aside from running away and, from personal experience, not many people use them. Its first use is, as I said, to run away when the going gets too tough, using stealth and speed to evade your enemies. As you will usually engage with Leap, this will be needed to get out if you can't beat your opponent. It can also be used to trigger Unseen Threat so that you can damage and slow your enemies more. It's third use is to engage on a fight, keeping Leap open for running away. This won't be needed as much if you evolve Leap. Note that it can be used again within 10 seconds for free. Level it up whenever possible and remember to not use your evolution point in combat.

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• Evolved Enlarged Claws (Q): This is Kha'Zix's best evolution for dueling. You will deal 12% of isolated targets health in bonus damage. On top of Taste Their Fear's insane isolated damage, this evolution will utterly destroy low health targets. As an assasin, you will be killing the low health guys first and this will help heaps. This can take out squishes that are on around 1/4 health in one shot. It will also increase the spells range and your attack range. However, all his other evolutions bring a bit more too the table and you should generally not evolve this.
  
• Evolved Spike Racks (W): It sends of 2 more spikes to the sides of the original one and applies Unseen Threat which makes it the best evolution for teamfights but the worst for dueling. What it brings to teamfights however, is nothing small. You can devastate the health of enemies before fights even start while putting yourself in almost no danger. A well placed one can also completely take out a creep wave, no matter how big. In laning, especially in mid, using this can get you easy kills with its insane burst. Using it within close range will heal you for massive amounts as well. Evolve first.
  
• Evolved Wings (E): Firstly, this will increase the range of Leap. This means you are way harder to chase and that you can easily get up close to your chosen victim. Secondly, it turns your Leap into Tristana's Rocket Jump without the slow, that is that it refreshes on kills and assists. I always evolve this second, after Taste Their Fear for the greater defensive and offensive power it gives you.
  
• Evolved Active Camoflage (R): Evolving this allows you to enter stealth for a third time to get Unseen Threat up again and makes you take 40% reduced damage in stealth. It may not seem like much, but it gives Void Assault a fourth use, reducing the damage from otherwise fatal projectiles. When you think about it, lots of champions have abilities that will take a while to reach you, and using this can save your life. I evolve this third in practically all games.

As per viewer request, I have added this special section to talk about our arch-nemesis;


Firstly, lets look at Rengar himself. He is a pretty OP guy, but since the Shadow Isles Patch, he isn't actually that powerful. In fact, he was nerfed to the point that Kha'Zix is better than him in almost every way. This obviously doesn't mean that you will always beat Rengar players, but it sure as hell makes him manageable.

• : Great boots for an enemy team with some deadly AP and/or CC, which would be almost all teams. The CC reduction is especially important because if you are CCed during a team fight, it might give the enemy team the chance they need to take you out.
  
• : Choice boots for jungling because of their low cost and the defense they provide against jungle camps. If you are rollin in money or the enemy team has demented amounts of CC and magic damage, get Mercury's Treads. Good with Zephyr as you can only get tenacity once.
  
• : This is the item that will make jungling relatively easy. With this, you can take on dragon 1v1 with ease, not to mention jungle camps. Place the ward at the enemy jungler's most important buff or Dragon so you can go kill them and steal it when they go for it.
  
• : Ahh we get this thing now, cause it upgrades into Black Cleaver. It always was a good item with that wicked damage and CDR for a small item, but it didn't upgrade into anything good. Get if after full boots if you wish.
  
• : You get the 2nd highest damage in the game off a fully farmed Bloodthirster and you definitely need it. After you get this bad boy, you can start bursting down lone squishies so fast they shout "OP" in all chat. The base damage on this was also increased to 70 while you can only stack an extra 30, making it easier to get full damage.
  
• : So it gives you damage, CDR and health! I know it also gives you all that flat armor penetration and the % armor reduction that is kinda reduced by having Last Whisper, but this does not make Black Cleaver in anyway not worth it. It will also give your ADC an easier time crushing your target.
  
  
  
  
  Possible Choices
  • : Get this in 100% of ranked games and most other games as well. Get it either 5th or 6th for its awesome life saving capabilities. After getting this you can be far more suicidal in your teamfight goals and will probably not be focused as much. It also gives nice resistances.
    
  • : Only get this with Muramana as it isn't worth getting without the extra damage you would get out of Muramana. Its other benefits are good CDR, more durability and an active that makes ADC's hate you.
    
  • : Massive mana and some damage are just the beginning of this spectacular item. The active allows your auto-attacks and Taste Their Fears to do massively increased damage at the price of some mana. Only turn this on when attacking champions and important objectives such as Baron Nashor. If getting this make sure to get Tear of the Goddess during the "Now You Should Get This" section.
    
  • : As well as having Sheen to greatly increase your damage after every spell (and we use heaps of spells) this will also give you great stats all around. The only disadvantage is that it gives critical strike which we don't use. However, it is still easily worth getting for all the other stats.
    
  • : This is a Cleanse turned into an item with tons of AD piled on top, not to mention a brief but powerful speed boost since Kha'Zix is melee. This is great for when you find that you can't do anything in fights due to constant CC. Get this in 100% of games with an enemy Malzahar.
    
  • : I would almost always recommend getting this item. The only time you should not get it is when the enemy don't build armor (for some reason). In combination with Weapon Expertise , you will have 43% armor penetration after getting this and will find killing tanks a lot easier.
    
  • : Choice item for heavy AP teams and teams with a fed AP carry due to its juicy damage and the strength it gives you against AP attacks. Also makes you more dangerous as you die, increasing dueling power.
    
  • : A well rounded item that gives Kha'Zix all that he needs. Since it gives you tenacity it is less beneficial to have Mercury's Treads and you can consider selling them for Ninja Tabi.
    
    
    
    
    Enchantments
  • : Just a flat movement speed modifier. Its the best when you need to travel around the map a lot or when you need to catch back up to enemies that just used a movement spell.
  • : This is the enchantment I usually get on Kha'Zix as it makes him very, very hard to escape. As your target attempts to flee you should find that you move much faster than them and the kill should be yours assuming the target's allies don't intervene.
  • : Good late game item for when your base is under siege and you need to be back up and fighting as soon as possible. This is the only case you should get this enchantment.

Grab your Boots and 3 Health Potions and make your way to top. If you are on blue team, help leash your jungle's wolves and blue or guard the blue if they start at red. The same goes for purple team but the other way round.

When the minions reach the lane, focus on last hitting. NEVER push your lane, either by using spells on the minions or battering away with multiple auto-attacks. Hit your opponent with a few Void Spikes to discourage them from attacking you, or even last hitting. Don't harass them with regular auto-attacks unless you have Unseen Threat active. If you see that they are isolated, use Taste Their Fear on them.

If the enemy jungler ganks you, quickly Leap or Void Assault out unless they are both on quite low health and you think you have the health and damage to burst them down. If you are on purple team and the enemy jungler starts on blue, I suggest getting Leap first or second to escape in case you are level 2 ganked.

If you are zoned or getting killed lots, make sure to buy gold gain items and get your jungler to gank top frequently. If the enemy is isolated and you think you can beat them, use the 1v1 combo mentioned in the next chapter.

There is 1 main combo for fighting 1v1s with Kha'Zix. It can be shortened or lengthened based on how strong your target is. (Remember to try and fight while the target is isolated).

Add Ignite/ Exhaust at the end if the target is still alive. If you have Youmuu's Ghostblade, use it after Void Spike. Keep repeating this combo if required. You can also use Void Assault to engange the fight or to keep getting Unseen Threat up.

Note that these are not set in stone and are just general difficulty levels. Don't feel invincible against champions I marked as 1 and don't feel hopeless against ones I marked as 5. When it comes down to it, it's mostly based on your skill level compared to your opponents.

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Pros + // Good clearing speed. + // Good sustain. + // Awesome counter-jungling.

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Cons - // Meh ganks. - // Little CC. - // Not the fastest clearing speed. - // Rengar wants your blood in the jungle as well.

Now, when the jungle rework comes, Kha'Zix will have massively increased jungle power. So don't give up on Kha'Zix jungle!!!

As you can imagine, your masteries will be different with jungling. Yes, I just change my masteries. This section goes over jungling masteries. The masteries I took when going solo top will be mentioned pretty briefly here.

• Fury : Needed for weapon expertise and the attack speed is kinda nice.
• Sorcery: The ability to use your spells faster will result in faster clearing speeds.
• Butcher : Kha'Zix isn't the best at killing jungle camps and taking this really helps. 4 damage will add up and improve your clear time.
• Deadliness : You won't really notice this while in the jungle, but we still need to think about late game.
• Weapon Expertise : This is one of the best masteries in the game, in the jungle too. Yeah jungle creeps have armor as well, not to mention the champions you are ganking.
• Brute Force : More damage to take out those jungle camps.
• Sunder : With this you can be doing nearly true damage to some of the weaker camps.
• Executioner : Jungle camps get below 40% as well!

• Summoner's Resolve : Smite will now be giving you an extra 10 gold per use. This actually turns into a lot of money over the course of the game, and it makes it easier to get the gold for your first back items.
• Hardiness : 6 armor will be reducing lots of camp damage over the course of the early game.
• Perseverance: Once again, you need to keep your health up.
• Tough Skin : You need to keep your health up if you want to counter-jungle and gank well and this is the best mastery for doing so.
• Bladed Armor : This thing is probably the best jungling mastery there is. You are certainly gonna kill the jungle camps faster with this.

The skill sequence is the same as if you were going solo top. A point in Taste Their Fear on level 1 makes for the best clear time, while getting Void Spike on level 2 will further help your clearing time and improve your sustain. A point in Leap is taken at level 3 for ganking. Points in Void Assault are taken whenever possible and the rest is taken in the order it is due to reasons explained in the laning Skill Sequence.

Now the big question is, what do you evolve when jungling as Kha'Zix. Well, there are lots of choices you are going to have to make.

First, evolve either Taste Their Fear or Void Spike. It really depends on the situation. If your lanes have lots of CC, evolve Taste Their Fear first to deal extra damage while your ally holds them in place. If your lanes have little CC, evolve Void Spike first so you can slow your target from far away, letting you and your ally kill them. Of course, you will have less damage this way, but you need to slow down your enemy from afar so that you can attack them.

Next you should evolve Leap for its increased utility in either the final ganks of the laning phase or the first teamfights of the mid game.

Lastly you should evolve Void Assault for the extra increase in utility it gives you. You should never evolve the ability that you neglected to evolve at level 6.

Everything described in this section is for someone on Blue Team. If you are on Purple Team, just reverse it.


After purchasing your Hunter's Machete and 5 health potions, quickly make your way to the Wolf camp and take a point in Taste Their Fear. Make it clear to your top and mid that you do not wish to use Smite and that you would like lots of damage to be dealt to the Wolves and Ancient Golem. Kill the mini-lizards first and then when you kill the Ancient Golem itself, take a point in Void Spike and head to the Elder Lizard, which you will secure with Smite. (Remember to kill the mini-lizards first!) Then you can take a point in Leap and make short work of the Wraith camp. At this point you can gank mid if you really want to or if your Ap Mid is failing dramatically. However, you should usually proceed to either Wolves or Golems based on where you want to gank. (See Map)!

When you gank, try to avoid Leaping in first if it can be helped. This can be achieved by telling your laner(s) to CC the target first. You can then walk up to the target and slow them down with Red Buff and Unseen Threat. At this point the target will probably use Flash or some other escape spell and you can Leap after them. (If you needed to use Leap to get to the target, the gank is probably now over, but can be saved if you have Flash and/or they had a relatively small escape spell and you can catch them with Void Assault). Try and give the kill to your laner unless they are the support or a full-blown tank top, such as Shen, but it is important to remember that you getting the kill is more worthwhile than the target getting away.

After this first gank you should probably go back on the spot unless you need just a bit more money for something. After shopping get some more levels by clearing jungle camps and ganking lanes in need. After you successfully gank it may be a good idea to push the tower with your laners so that they can roam a bit themselves. Remember to make life hell for the enemy jungler as much as possible and to cover the lanes when required. When the game transitions into mid game, just carry on as you would if laning.

Kha'Zix is an awesome dueler, something I have mentioned time and time again. He is even better when there are no enemy units near your target. This makes him such a phenomenal counter-jungler, by which I mean killing the enemy jungler and the camps in his jungle. Only do this when you feel you are stronger than the enemy jungler. (Don't go in at a lower level on half health). When you feel up to it (and try to be level 6 with evolved claws), either just stroll into the enemy jungle or follow the enemy jungler, eg: he cuts across midlane to get to wraiths. Once in, it's a simple matter to combo them to death. In the case of most junglers, you can wipe them out and escape before any of their teammates can help them. You can also steal their camps, but remember to leave one of the smaller monsters alive so the camp doesn't respawn.

By now the first few towers are down, and some teamfights are happening. If the enemy top remains in the lane, you should also stay to prevent them from pushing your towers and/or getting fed on CS. Make sure to ward the river and be aware if the enemy team is MIA. Try and kill the enemy top as much as possible if you have even the slightest advantage over them and make sure to not fight them with their minions if possible.

If the enemy top has joined their team you can either push the top towers (I suggest doing this if you haven't yet taken the Outer Turret) or also join your team. Make sure to ward possible routes the enemy may take to reach you and kill you. If you join your team and a teamfight erupts, you have to be ready.



There are 2 main teamfight combos. These combos should be executed on the biggest, isolated damage threat. If no damage threats are isolated, go for the squishiest damage threat. The first combo is for when you have not evolved Leap and the second is for when you have.


Remember to flick on Youmuu's Ghostblade and add Ignite/ Exhaust if required. After doing this, you can either Void Assault out or move onto the next damage threat, either with Void Assault or without.

If you have evolved Leap, you can use it to engage instead. Then follow the combo and Leap to your next target or use it for an easy escape. This also leaves Void Assault open for running away. If you take down your second target without needing to run away, your team should have won the fight by now. If they haven't, clean up any stragglers or use Void Assault to retreat and defend your base.

At this point, most towers are gone and baron nashor has probably been slain. You can almost never go anywhere alone, the 2 exceptions been when the enemy team are all dead or all faraway from you. Unless the enemy ADC sucks really bad/is completely underfed, go for them. In Late Game, the ADC will almost always have the highest damage output and need to be shutdown fast. Even if you die killing them, your team's ADC can then slaughter the enemy team relatively unchecked. Late game Kha'Zix can also backdoor if the situation calls because of his good escaping abilities, but try and do this while the enemy are far away. When backdooring, you should almost always retreat if you have just killed a tower/inhib as the enemy team will come running. If you see an enemey that is away from their team, feel free to assassinate them. Remember that late game Kha'Zix is very hard to 1v1 if you play right.

I hope you enjoyed my guide on Kha'Zix and learnt how to play him better. Always remember that this is a guide not a build. So if you don't like my build, leave me a comment explaining why and don't just downvote me. Perhaps list a few items you would like to see included. If you didn't like the information in the guide or felt it was missing something, tell me what it is.

The jungling section will be done next and try not to hate me too much for putting it off so long.

Firstly, I would like to thank jhoijhoi for the guide on making guides (found here) the dividers, and some of the template.



Others who have helped me are;

• StreatRiot15 for suggesting an alternative build.
• Mushra for reminding me about AD Nidalee.
• Scotchbandit for showing me how the hidden passive works.
• destructionshark for prompting me to make a special section regarding the interactions between Kha'Zix and Rengar.
• NoizeKill for writing down some counters.
• TinyStar for my signature and the borders in "Hall of Fame" which will be everywhere when I can be bothered. :D