Okay, let me start off saying I love this lore. But take a step back. Replace the word Valoran with Earth. The word void with future. The word Rengar with Goku and the word Kha'Zix with Cell. This lore reminds me of Cell from DBZ.

SO! Since Kog has a dad, can we assume that Kha'zix has a mother.... a QUEEN perhaps? (You should know where I am going with this...)

In order: They're delicious but unfulfilling. He doesn't generally get any genetic benefit to eating them, but they're like candy ^^

Mal'zahar likely finds Kha'Zix oddly familiar, having seen visions of the Void coming to Valoran, but Kha'Zix was not the main focus of what the prophet saw... For his part, Kha'Zix has had no contact with Mal'zahar. If he encountered the prophet, I suspect he would understand what happened to Malz in terms of what Kha'Zix himself does--that Malz adapted with the Void, and has become something greater than before.

Kog'Maw like bug! :3 For his part, Kha'Zix would see the potential in Kog'Maw. This would be especially true if Kha'Zix was aware on some level of Kog'Maw's father...

Kha'Zix would not single Draven out for eating because smugness is not something Kha'Zix needs to devour prey. Jax is not something Kha'Zix would be interested in eating because he has not yet come to respect the nature of Jax's battle prowess, but if he evolved or otherwise learned more, he may be tempted to try. Whether he would actually gain anything from eating Jax is another question entirely.

Skarner's people are very elusive, and Kha'Zix has not done much exploring. I think Kha'Zix is completely unaware of Skarner, but would definitely take an opportunity to eat him if he encountered the scorpion.


We've found it best to leave questions of the League to player imagination and focus ourselves on character-driven stories; the better the character, the more ways to answer those questions. Where we answer those questions ourselves, we often find that it can limit the character.

So given that, let's explore those questions! Why would Kha'Zix join the league? I can see many reasons, primarily among them the huge treasure-trove of interesting creatures to devour. There's also Rengar, who would draw Kha'Zix like a moth to flame. Was he brought in by force? Many would love to capture such a monstrous creature, but I find it difficult to imagine any prison keeping Kha'Zix for long. Hypothetically, I think it would be significantly easier to kill Kha'Zix than to imprison him, so personally I don't believe he has ever been captured. As for not being able to devour champs under certain curious circumstances, well, Kha'Zix is nothing if not adaptable. If there is an occasion where he can't devour a champion, he would find a different occasion to attack them, but he would not give up. At a fundamental level, Kha'Zix is not physically capable of what we call "giving up". He could become anything, given time; he can be delayed, but he cannot be denied. He will only "give up" when he is dead.

I've already talked about Malz and Kog, so here I'll talk about Cho and Kass. I personally believe that Kha'Zix would be interested by Kass but not trust him. Conversely, Kassadin would recognize Kha'Zix's potential but views the more imminent Void threats, such as Cho'Gath, as more important and more pressing.

For Cho'Gath, I believe there's a certain compatibility, a monstrously alien camaraderie between Cho and Kha. They both devour to grow and grow to devour, they have similar basic makeup. Kha'Zix is playing the ground game, turning Valoran's strength against it, adapting to become a better predator to devour the creatures of this world. Cho'Gath is set in form and devours Valoran creatures that he may become large enough to overshadow and consume them all. They have similar goals and different methods.

Kha'Zix finds every kill notable, but it was more likely to be one of his first kills in Valoran than a specifically notable being. Kha'Zix would need extreme circumstances before he would be willing to eat a Void being, and even then, he may refuse. As for if it's a queen of spiders, Kha'Zix has eaten spiders before, but he shows no adaptations of spider origin. Since one can imagine a queen of spiders being highly powerful, one could then assume that Kha'Zix would adapt some portion of such a thing's power. Since Kha'Zix has no spider powers, one can then decide that he probably did not eat any spidery queens.

Perhaps. Skins are not canon, of course, but within a hypothetical Glorious Evolution future, we do see battlecast creations that are as advanced as Mecha Kha'Zix. However, they follow a naming scheme and a certain design aesthetic--heavy, powerful, inelegant in form but elegant in function, as is Viktor's way. They are beautiful in a towering brutal fashion. Mecha Kha'Zix is sleeker and lighter, and his visual appeal is different. Perhaps he signals a shift in Viktor's design methodology, perhaps he is an independent line from the Battlecast, perhaps he is something else entirely.

Kha'Zix is acting out his own agenda, which happens to be infiltration, which itself lines up very well with what other Void creatures are doing. If there is an intelligence behind these actions, if there is a plan, is unknown. Mal'zahar has perhaps the most information on this topic, and his mind has been twisted by the visions he has seen. Some knowledge is not meant for mortals.

Kha'Zix does not think in terms of end goals. If he did, it would be "to become perfect", which itself is relative based on environment--but he does not. Kha'Zix is a being of process, of the flow of moment to moment. He thinks in terms of where prey will go and where he will go; he's not a planner or a schemer.

To Kha'Zix, life is change. In the way that most people don't have one dominant goal that drives their whole lives, and they mainly want to live well, Kha'Zix also wants to live well. For him, this means constantly changing, constantly improving. Fretting about what one will become distracts from the act of becoming. He came to Valoran to gain its strength. While he is there, he will turn that strength against Valoran, and through his very existence, he will bring that strength into the Void, but the point is neither the strength itself nor any concerns about worlds. For Kha'Zix, the point is the change itself.

Void creatures are infinitely varied and terrible. To strictly define their motives is impossible. They certainly can embody basic urges, but beyond that is inscrutable.

Yes and no. Kha'Zix and Rengar have similar themes because of the story we're telling with the characters, but they feel drastically different to play. Try them and see! Answers for Cho are in an earlier question in this post.

If he and Varus fought (off the fields of justice) who would win and why? (Is he even able to devour the shadowy stuff on Varus?)

I am only re-posting because I don't know if you were typing this all out when I posted and you probably will not go back and check to see if you missed anything. (I don't know your process) You might have also overlooked my question even if it was half serious, but I just want to be sure:

SO! Since Kog has a dad, can we assume that Kha'zix has a mother.... a QUEEN perhaps? (You should know where I am going with this...)

How do summoners feel about Kha'Zix? Or other Void champs?
- I mean people are willingly "summoning" a void creature whose intentions are almost entirely unknown...

How do the nations feel about these Void creatures?
I mean Cho, seems like he has always had a presence.
But Kog, Malz, and now Kha'Zix... Do the nations like Ionia and Demacia feel threatened by these appearances?
-A follow up being, how do nations like Zuan and Noxis feel about this? I mean, it seems in terms of the war Noxis and Zuan had no chance of winning (even while employing less admirable tactics). But with these Void creatures become more and more "common", are there plots to employ the same technology that made Sion, Singed famous to Void creatures?
- Second follow up being, will there be any expeditions to these creatures place of origin?

How does being in the explosion of his own Void Spike heal Kha'Zix?

(I can semi-understand it in a gameplay perspective, but lore?)

Where are Kha'Zix's wounds from his battle with Rengar? Rengar lost an eye in that fight, Kha'Zix can't have just made it out with no scars at all. Let's not talk about scars in his pride, just the ones he aqcuired on his body. Could his battle with Rengar have hurt him in such way that it would damage his evolution mechanisms/abilities to evolve?

Why did Kha'Zix enter the league instead of devouring even more creatures on Valoran while he could get back on Rengar easier that way? Which of them joined the league first?

Does Kha'Zix evolve only when he devours strong opponents or does he also slowly evolve with weak prey as well? Does his evolutionary potential have a ceiling?

What is Kha'Zix's intelligence level? We know Cho'Gath is really intelligent, and Kog'Maw seems like the exact opposite.

Kha'Zix understands perfectly why he is in Valoran, but how is more mysterious. The mechanics of entering this realm from another get into technical realms of magic that he has no interest in.

Kha'Zix's blood is not acidic, and it is unlikely he would desire such an adaptation--dissolved prey is useless to him. I'm not sure I understand the other question. "Godzilla approach", "xenomorph approach" ? My instinct is that he uses neither approach, but I don't really know what you mean.

I find the first question here very interesting. Kha'Zix has initially very little knowledge of who's in the League, but as he learns more, his targets change. At a very simple physical level, he would look at champions such as Volibear, Rammus, and Warwick as good targets for devouring because he could take some of their physical characteristics to adapt himself. If he devoured his way into an expanded intellect, however, his purview changes. He would likely become curious about his own nature--can he devour magic? Could he adapt Anivia's phoenix nature to defy death? He would find an expanded menu. Can he devour mages? The undead? More interesting questions. But then there's that special category. If Kha'Zix devours his way to an expanded mind, he may come to understand beings that threaten him or the Void on an existential level. These would be beings to kill and never devour, because Kha'Zix would never want to be anything like these most loathsome of creatures.

The nature of the Void is so terrible and alien that to discuss it here would be a misstep. I do not want a bunch of forumites driven mad by Mal'zahar style visions!


I do not know if Rengar and Cho have met. Cho's size would likely impress Rengar, possibly making him think of Cho as a greater prize, but I think after pursuing Cho the lack of a personal tie would bring him back to the hunt for Kha'Zix. For Cho's part, he would devour Rengar without a second thought if he had the chance. If he found Rengar to be hunting Void beings, Cho would take a very dim view of that, but he would not get in Kha'Zix's way.

Consumption and study are the same for Kha'Zix. To understand something, he devours it. Answers about the Void question are further up this post.

Kha'Zix is the exact opposite of static. He is living change, and he looks at the time he spends not changing the way that we look at time spent in the elevator or waiting in line. His skills are limited only to what he can eat, and while his interest is very focused, it is not focused on consumption. Rather, it is focused on the idea of becoming. Kha'Zix wants to grow and change and adapt, forever; he picks up and discards other interests and agendas only in that they service his endless change.

The nature of the Void is inscrutable, but clues abound...

Kha'Zix respects and fears Kog'Maw's "daddy". Beyond that, he will not say.

To speak to the heart of your point rather than the individual specifics, this is much of why we prefer to focus on the stories of the characters themselves and leave the League up to the players' imaginations. These obstacles you describe are only present if we sit down and say that X and Y happened in Summoner's Rift et cetera. If we focus on the story outside the league and leave the fields of justice to the players' imagination, it works better on all counts.

We give richer characters more room to grow both by ensuring they have better foundation and by making sure we don't limit their potential by, say, preventing resolution to their conflict. This also frees us up to talk more about our champions and the world they live in. Kha'Zix and Rengar are extremely likely to resolve their arc outside the League, but if players want to imagine a League encounter that ends their story, they certainly can--the fields of justice have always been the place in our world where players decide what happens.

Yep! Kha'Zix has been in development in varying stages for a long, long time. Far longer than either Rengar or Syndra, actually. Answers to the Glorious Evolution question are earlier in this thread.

Limitations frequently breed creativity.

I've asked this before, but it always gets misunderstood, diverted, or ignored. I'd drop it, but the issue keeps getting brought up.

It seems the story is moving further and further away from the League itself, to the point that some champions actually seem to be completely incompatible with it. Is this an intentional change, or does it only look this way because mentions of the the league are disappearing from bios? Once we get these long-awaited 'other sources of lore', will the league return to being a prominent fixture in the story?

If the story IS intentionally moving away from the actual game, is anyone in the lore department concerned about the large disconnect this creates between story and gameplay, and how difficult it is to remain invested in a storyline that grows more and more irrelevant and separate to what we actually get to experience?

I've asked this before, but never gotten a straight answer, and it's an issue I've become more sensitive to and concerned about as of late.

Because, as much as Kha'Zix looks awesome, it's much more difficult to invest in the actual character (as opposed to his mechanics/aesthetics) when it has next to no bearing on anything I'm actually doing with him.