Khaimera Build Guide

Khaimera is a high risk, high reward melee fighter and a powerful duelist. Possessed by the Spirit of a wild beast, Khaimera excels at ganking enemies and isolating prey. His feral instincts and thirst for battle makes him an absolute savage in skirmishes.

When playing Khaimera, look for opportunities to get ahead in the early game. Spirit Regeneration is what makes Khaimera great at skirmishing, increasing his Health Regen every time you land a basic attack.

Unleash will tap into the power of the beast causing Khaimera to frenzy, granting him max attack speed for a short time. Using these together will increase your survivability and make you a powerful duelist.

Khamiera excels at ganking and isolating prey. When hunting, use Ambush to quickly close the gap or to keep your target from escaping.

Your ultimate Cull, will channel the full power of the beast, devastating your target and knocking enemies away, isolating your victim.

When playing Khaimera look for opportunities to gank enemies out of position. Use Ambush to dive enemy backlines and single out key targets. Khaimera’s ability to isolate targets, dueling power, sustain and ferocity make him a menace in teamfights.

Terrorize the battlefield and be a threat the enemy always fears.

LORE OF KHAIMERA

Coming soon.

KHAIMERA OVERVIEW

Khaimera’s Strengths

1. Excels in one-on-ones.
2. An exceptional ganker.
3. Nearly impossible to kill in long skirmishes (thanks to Spirit Regeneration)

Khaimera’s Weaknesses

1. High skill cap hero. You need to know when to engage and when to disengage (see the next option)
2. No escape abilities at all.
3. Relatively squishy. Without enough Spirit Regeneration stacks can melt fast.

Tips and Tricks with Khaimera

Key points while playing Khaimera

• Always think twice before diving in. Khaimera has little to none escape abilities and a very limited gap closing tool Ambush.
• Don’t engage with Ambush by default. When possible engage by running to your prey and Ambush until your enemy tries to escape.
• Build Attack Speed since it will get you more sustain via Spirit Regeneration stacks.
• Pay extreme attention to any opponents with high CC potential. Heroes like Riktor with his Skewer or especially Dekker with her low-cooldown Stasis Bomb can literally render you helpless. Exposed to focused fire of an entire enemy team.

KHAIMERA’S ABILITIES ANALYSIS

This section will focus on Khaimera’s abilities going down to deepest details. You can skip to gameplay guide if you know all of this.

Hack

 

Basic Attack. Khaimera swings his axes, dealing Basic Damage.

Hack also adds stacks to the Spirit Regeneration (see below).

Ambush

 

Alternate Ability. Khaimera leaps to a target enemy Hero, dealing Ability Damage to him. If successful a Slow is applied to that Hero for 1 second.

Ambush is an instant lock-on ability with a quick leap animation. It’s the main and the only gap-closer for Khaimera. As described can be used only at enemy Hero so you can’t disengage with it. Ambush shall be used wisely. Once confirmed there may be no way back from the fight. One of the main points here is in saving this ability if your enemy has some disengage or displacement.

Compare 2 scenarios:

• Khaimera uses Ambush and then TwinBlast uses his Rocket Dash
• Khaimera approaches TwinBlast, he uses Rocket Dash and then Khaimera uses Ambush

This is one of the reasons why Khaimera is a high skill cap Hero.

Ambush can be used to reach out enemies you can’t normally jump to

Remember that Ambush is never an escape ability. You can’t just jump away onto some ledge like Greystone can with his Assault the Gates ability and playing Khaimera you have to be paying a lot of attention on how you position yourself during the game and team fights.

Unleash

Primary Ability. Khaimera gains max attack speed for the next 5 seconds, or until the ability duration ends, whichever happens first. The card damage scaling of this ability increases with the ability’s level.

5 attacks means 5 attacks that did hit any target. If you missed and didn’t hit anything then it will not count as one of that 5 attacks.

Unleash is Khaimera’s tool to gain Spirit Regeneration early in a team-fight or while smashing a Jungle camp. Early game you might want to use this ability in the Jungle to keep your HP high. Mid and late game you will shred camp in a blink of an eye so hitting the Unleash will not be necessary.

If you are going to engage an enemy with Ambush you can pre-cast Unleash in order to start landing hits and collecting Spirit Regeneration stacks as fast as possible.

Unleash maxes out attack speed but decreases damage output provided by cards.

Spirit Regeneration

Secondary Ability. [Passive]: Khaimera’s Health Regen is boosted each time he lands a Hack, Ambush, or Cull attack on an enemy. This effect stacks, and increases in effectiveness each time the ability is leveled up.

This ability is what makes Khaimera unique. The only other Paragon Hero with slightly similar mechanic is Morigesh with her Swarm but not that effective as Spirit Regen.

Note that there will be no stacks until this ability is upgraded to at least level 1. For this reason Spirit Regeneration is the ability you will always want to upgrade first.

Maximum possible regeneration is 25 stacks

Spirit Regeneration works on minions and Heroes only. Enemy strictures will not give you stacks.

The best opportunity to initiate a fight for Khaimera is right after clearing a wave of minions of a Jungle camp.

Note: that Rampage’s Boulder Throw when maxed out applies stun for 2 seconds which will guarantee your stacks expiration. Dekker’s Stasis Bomb will do pretty much the same.

Cull

Ultimate Ability. Khaimera selects an enemy Hero. After a brief channel, he stuns his enemy for 1 second and deals Ability Damage to that Hero. He pushes away and slows all other enemies for 60% for 3 seconds.

Cull is a lock-on channel ability with two phases (locking and dealing damage) with a short animation in between. While channeling Khaimera can do nothing but executing his ultimate. Not even changing sight direction.

Sound cues. Both phases has pretty specific cues so everyone around knows what’s going on. It actually gives enemy team a chance to react (see below) and mitigate damage applied at the end of channeling.

Interactions with abilities and effects.

• Stun, Silence, and Knockup effects will instantly stop channeling and deny any damage.
• Displacement effects will not deny damage even despite displacing Khaimera away. e.g. Buckshot from Murdock, GRIM.exe’s Displacement Blast.

Special case. Phase can pull Khaimera’s target away with her Telekinetic Link and avoid any damage. See how it looks like.

Example. Interrupting Cull with Stun.

KHAIMERA’S DECK CONSIDERATIONS

CORE CARDS FOR KHAIMERA

KHAIMERA DECK #1

GAMEPLAY WITH KHAIMERA

Khaimera is a strong Jungler. If you are going to play him you will need to know some Jungling basics.

Early Game

Do your Jungling stuff. Look for kills of enemies that are staying solo on the line or make ganks with your team makes randomly. Watch your safe lane for an overextended enemy to stub him from the back using the River. Always plan to appear near one of the River Buffs as soon as they re-spawn. Be a constant threat to the enemy carry and watch out for an opportunity to punish an overextended midlaner.

Mid Game

Pretty the same thing as in the early game. Try sneaking into the enemy’s Jungle to harass their Amber Link and steal Jungle camps.

As early as you have ~1000 HP and maxed out and Spirit Regeneration you can go for Raptors Camp.

Late Game

DO not initiate fights unless you are absolutely clear that this is going to be a duel. The best way to participate in team-fights is to jump in a couple of seconds after the team-fight has started. The perfect time will be with any of your teammates Ult when it is more or less clear what opponent is being focused.

Be careful against team compositions with strong Crowd Control. Khaimera is very vulnerable to stuns and roots as they not only render you helpless against ranged Heroes but they also cause your Spirit Regeneration stacks to reset. On the other hands here are cards available to help you mitigate those situations.

In most cases your main weapon is a combo of Ambush and Cull followed up by Unleash and Basic attacks.

HEROES SYNERGY

Khaimera and Dekker

Caged with a beast

Dekker’s Containment Fence will simply prevent any enemy from disengaging from Khaimera except for Gideon, Muriel, Kallari, Howitzer and Steel that have Ults to be used for escape.