Defender Kha'Zix & Hecarim

Game plan

How it’s played

3-cost reroll at level 7 Rolls at level 7 until its 3-costs are 3-starred: Kha'Zix.

Play it when

you hold Needlessly Large Rod and B.F. Sword

Roll

Level 7 around 4-1: about 57 rolls (114 gold) to 3-star Kha'Zix; about 75 if three copies of each are on other boards. model

Build

Kha'Zix Edge of Night, Hand Of Justice, Rabadon's Deathcap · 29 games · #4.45

Components

Needlessly Large Rod ×2 · B.F. Sword · Chain Vest · Sparring Gloves · Tear of the Goddess

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 5: 7.3 · stage 6: 7.8

Vs its level

Finishes at level 7.4 on average. Boards at its levels average 5.46 across every comp; this one averages 4.58, 0.88 better. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.

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Final board

The whole board at level 7, where most of its games end. A dashed slot is one its games fill differently; an open one, no unit holds on a quarter of them.

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Positions are our rule, by attack range: melee in front, ranged behind, the most-itemed carries in the back corners. Riot's match data has none.

5Kennen★

• Edge of Night
• Thief's Gloves
• Hand Of Justice

3Diana★★

• Ionic Spark
• Executioner Emblem

3Fiddlesticks★★

3Hecarim★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmogs Armor
• Spirit Visage

carry

3Kha'Zix★★★

• Hand Of Justice
• Rabadon's Deathcap
• Edge of Night

carry

2Shen★★

4Sorakaflex

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Items

The three items this comp’s carry was measured holding most often, the placement of the boards it held them on, and the difference against the comp’s own average. Every board of the family, all ranks.

Champion	Item	Avg Place	vs comp	Games
Kha'Zix	Hand Of Justice	#4.57	-0.19	185
Kha'Zix	Rabadon's Deathcap	#4.42	-0.34	98
Kha'Zix	Edge of Night	#4.78	+0.02	95

Full builds

The carries’ most played three-item builds this patch, with the placement of the games they were built in.

Champion	Build	Avg Place	Games
Kha'Zix	Edge of NightHand Of JusticeRabadon's Deathcap	#4.45	29

Components to hold Needlessly Large Rod ×2, B.F. Sword, Chain Vest, Sparring Gloves, Tear of the Goddess

Augments that fit

What each augment grants, set against what this comp measured: the same rule the overlay uses when it reads the three on offer. A measured line is the comp’s own placement at a trait level; a line by rule is a fact about the comp, such as the damage its carry is built for.

MeasuredThe comp’s own placement at a trait’s levels, beside the augments that give the trait.

• Flora Fatalis 2 averages 4.36 here, against 5.06 at Flora Fatalis 1 (196 boards)

  Consuming Flora

By ruleSuits this comp it 3-stars a 3-cost in 76% of its boards (197)

Commerce CoreInvested+Invested++Prismatic TicketUpward MobilityCognitive OverloadEpic RolldownEpochEpoch+Trade SectorTrade Sector+Crafted Crafting

2 more

Patience Is A VirtueRecombobulator

Riot’s match-v1 data does not report which augments a player took, so no augment has a number of its own on this page or anywhere else on the site. The augment reference lists what each one grants.

More about this comp

At the top of the ladder

The newest boards of this comp from the players on our leaderboard, best placed first. A name opens that player’s games, board and items included.

1. #8FW K寶寶生氣了#1234Challenger · TW · 1,667 LP · level 7 · out at 5-2 · 2026-09-30
2. #8ViggoZe#EUWChallenger · EUW · 1,623 LP · level 7 · out at 5-1 · 2026-09-22

Traits

Active on the core board, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.

Defender2next 4Inferno2next 3Vanguard2next 4Flora Fatalis1next 2Rival1next 2

What each tier of this comp’s own traits was worth on its boards. The small number under each average is how many boards sat at that tier.

Trait	Placement at each tier
Flora Fatalis	15.0610124.3695

By bracket

Diamond, Master, Grandmaster and Challenger against the whole sample. Each board carries the tier of its own player where the sampler held it.

Bracket	Games	Avg Place	Top 4 %	Win %
Diamond+	46	#4.59	41.3%	17.4%
All ranks	71	#4.76	35.2%	16.9%

Trend

Avg Place on each of the last 7 days. The bars are scaled to the range shown, so the shape is the comparison and the figure under each bar is the day.

5.3029

4.6430

4.701

5.332

4.333

4.224

Also played

Families sharing at least 4 core units with this one — the same board taken a different way.

Comp	Tier	Shared units	Avg Place	Games
Lunar Kha'Zix Spellweaver	—	5	#4.82	60
Elderwood Kha'Zix & Hecarim	A	4	#4.29	96,869
Inferno Kennen	—	4	#4.25	186
Vanguard Kha'Zix Lunar	—	4	#4.16	157
Vanguard Kha'Zix & Hecarim Defender	—	4	#4.28	130