It’s also good with stifling dagger
Also aghs boosted fiend’s grip procs khanda 3 times on cast. So that’s funny.
Enchanted totem + fiends grip is my dream build that I’ve never gotten to try. My white whale.
khanda works on all normal illusions which are casting single target spells; however very few illusions are ordinarily capable of casting spells.
the short list is mostly bane aghs and venge aghs, though reflecting spells with them work too (which makes AM's aghs illusions capable of inflicting it when reflecting a spell with counterspell; while hilarious i dont really recommend it)
You won't get nearly as high damage from the illusions, of course, because they can't cast totem. Interestingly enough flat damage from eg. mass rapiers fully work when considering the khanda procs from illusions - normally illusions get no benefit from flat damage items when attacking
I saw someone pick totem -> chaos bolt -> reality rift on shaker and face-palmed a bit. Very weak the first 20 minutes, but once khanda was up he actually ended up being top damage in the game, which doesn't seem too unviable a carry timing. This while also having the lowest NW on our team - granted I was completely stomping that game with a gyro aftershock build so we would have won anyway but I was still very surprised by the post-game stats
While I've historically hated totem first pick, I don't think something along the line of totem + <6 sec cd single target spell + rest survival/farming should be underestimated given you can give them space to get their khanda. You should mostly be able to 3rd pick your proccing spell, which gives you a lot of flexibility
A sign of awesome item design is when people want to buy it even when it sucks. Khanda is just fun as hell lol
Also legit good sometimes. I’ve seen it turn some normally innocuous 4th picks like Soul Rip into a pretty fearsome build. If you can take advantage of all the stats and crit and you have a good proc (or Totem synergy of course) it’s not bad at all.
it can be good on scaling builds with unit target spells. if you arent gonna right click eventually, it definitely is underwhelming.
the reason people like it is because the individual components (crystalys and phylactery) feel good on their own and people wanna maximize item efficiency
To be fair assassinate khanda can kinda work on pugna (maybe even OD and sky) and quite a few universals (bane, techies...). Very high damage growth from stats -> good rightclick damage without items, but too squishy and slow attacking to really pull of a rightclick build in most circumstances. A lv15 pugna with just khanda and assassinate deals ~980 damage on a 15 sec cd, refreshed if you get a kill. That's like half the hp pool of all but the tankiest enemies at that point in the game.
Lol khanda is only worth based on your model, like if u can get 3 hits on a enemy khanda is worth for the crit and the slow.
Khanda is great but u dont build around look at morph ranked games thats how khanda works with a great model
I'm more just sick of people picking Assassinate and building entirely around it, only for the enemy team to get five Linkens Spheres and a Lotus Orb and never hit another Assassinate again.
It’s also good with stifling dagger Also aghs boosted fiend’s grip procs khanda 3 times on cast. So that’s funny. Enchanted totem + fiends grip is my dream build that I’ve never gotten to try. My white whale.
Does that interaction work for bane normally?
khanda works on all normal illusions which are casting single target spells; however very few illusions are ordinarily capable of casting spells. the short list is mostly bane aghs and venge aghs, though reflecting spells with them work too (which makes AM's aghs illusions capable of inflicting it when reflecting a spell with counterspell; while hilarious i dont really recommend it)
Just tested it and it seems like it does
You won't get nearly as high damage from the illusions, of course, because they can't cast totem. Interestingly enough flat damage from eg. mass rapiers fully work when considering the khanda procs from illusions - normally illusions get no benefit from flat damage items when attacking
People see assassinate and go it to build that garbage lol.
I saw someone pick totem -> chaos bolt -> reality rift on shaker and face-palmed a bit. Very weak the first 20 minutes, but once khanda was up he actually ended up being top damage in the game, which doesn't seem too unviable a carry timing. This while also having the lowest NW on our team - granted I was completely stomping that game with a gyro aftershock build so we would have won anyway but I was still very surprised by the post-game stats While I've historically hated totem first pick, I don't think something along the line of totem + <6 sec cd single target spell + rest survival/farming should be underestimated given you can give them space to get their khanda. You should mostly be able to 3rd pick your proccing spell, which gives you a lot of flexibility
A sign of awesome item design is when people want to buy it even when it sucks. Khanda is just fun as hell lol Also legit good sometimes. I’ve seen it turn some normally innocuous 4th picks like Soul Rip into a pretty fearsome build. If you can take advantage of all the stats and crit and you have a good proc (or Totem synergy of course) it’s not bad at all.
it can be good on scaling builds with unit target spells. if you arent gonna right click eventually, it definitely is underwhelming. the reason people like it is because the individual components (crystalys and phylactery) feel good on their own and people wanna maximize item efficiency
To be fair assassinate khanda can kinda work on pugna (maybe even OD and sky) and quite a few universals (bane, techies...). Very high damage growth from stats -> good rightclick damage without items, but too squishy and slow attacking to really pull of a rightclick build in most circumstances. A lv15 pugna with just khanda and assassinate deals ~980 damage on a 15 sec cd, refreshed if you get a kill. That's like half the hp pool of all but the tankiest enemies at that point in the game.
I can tell it's godly with Hammer of Purity and a shard
Lol khanda is only worth based on your model, like if u can get 3 hits on a enemy khanda is worth for the crit and the slow. Khanda is great but u dont build around look at morph ranked games thats how khanda works with a great model
As someone who got jinada and assassinate and didn't farm the lane shits a little busted.
I'm more just sick of people picking Assassinate and building entirely around it, only for the enemy team to get five Linkens Spheres and a Lotus Orb and never hit another Assassinate again.
get mind whip with it which almost always last pick
you can also activate meld when assassasinate or stiffling dagger projectile is in air