How To Play Khan Paladins

How to exist the

PRIMUS OF Business firm AICO

This guide is geared for people who already has a decent corporeality of experience of gameplay, and are trying to learn Khan. This guide volition include basic data on talents, skills and abilities, so volition continue on how and when to employ them.

Regarding loadouts, I am a firm believer that loadouts should exist personal and I originally did not want to include loadouts. Despite my ain opinion I volition still add together them considering you, the readers, are most probable beginners to Khan and would not know where to begin. Y'all may go through trial and fault on which cards you lot'd want to exist in your loadout. Still that takes a lot of time, time that some of you might not have. Thus, I will be sharing my ain loadouts to give you a pocket-sized boost. You may also copy pro thespian loadouts if you don't trust my own xD. In that case, I propose copying from main tank pro players such every bit Rubbu or Tulky. Experience free to edit them every bit you see fit to match it to your own preferred playstyle.

Who is the Primus of Firm Aico?

"The Patriarch of Business firm Aico issued a claiming to his captains: concord the house's banner for as long as possible. Few were strong plenty to concluding a day. The concluding captain to receive the exam, a fellow named Khan, held the banner for hours. As his artillery tired, he beckoned to a common servant and asked her to accept it from him, "Even though I must fall," he said, "the banner will remain." This was not test of forcefulness, but i of loyalty to House Aico. Khan passed the examination and proved himself worthy of command. Today, he serves Lian every bit advisor and protector"

Khan is a hybrid, semi-support, frontline champion, who is capable of fulfilling both the roles of a point tank and a bruiser tank*. His skills center around solidifying team position and breaking apart enemy lines. Khan has a 4000 health pool with a 350 movement speed.

Skills Bones information, usage and tips

Main Weapon: Heavy Repeater

Fires ane 200 direct damage shot every 0.26 seconds

Base clip size: 20
Reload speed: ane.5 sec
Effective until medium range

200 damage every 0.26 seconds? Doesn't seem to corporeality to much at present doesn't it? Well no worries considering I have a piece of proficient news for you lot.

In theory, Khan's heavy repeater has the second highest weapon dps* (damage per second) among the frontlines. This weapon dps alone allows Khan to act with impunity against enemy squishes* and sometimes even against enemy frontlines. Now that's all fine and dandy, 2d highest dps and all that, only I desire you to recall: that's only in theory. It works under the supposition that every bullet you shoot is a confirmed striking.

Merely don't panic still, you lot don't need an aim like those of pro players. I have an additional piece proficient news for yous: It's very easy to confirm hits bullet afterward bullet. Why would that be? Two reasons: Recoil and Weapon inaccuracy. The heavy repeater doesn't have whatsoever recoil and its inaccuracy is minimal. As long you lot could track the enemy'southward movements, you could pound that weapon dps into your enemy. (The gun feels like it shoots flying jackhammers rather than a bullet lmao) While I'm not proverb that you could go a 100% hit rate, it is easy to get a decently high enough hit rate that you could already feel the terror coming out of the enemy at the sight of their health chop-chop decreasing.

Merely look. There'south more.

That's right. I have more skilful news: Equally a hitscan weapon* he can deal bonus damage from doing headshots. Yep more damage for our Primus in addition to his already high dps. And in case you forgot, information technology'south easy to land his shots, that means that once you find the enemy head hitbox and if you could lock onto information technology, they're gonna get an even heavier pounding than they usually receive. (Innuendo may or may not be intended)

Is there any bad news to this weapon at all? Well if there was any, it would be the effective range of this weapon. Its effective range would exist the length of 2 capture points placed side by side, if you shoot further than that, the damage starts to decrease. Furthermore, if your target is as far 3 capture points placed in a line, you lot might as well prick them with needles. Yes, the damage subtract at that range is that drastic*.

There are four cards that can be added into your loadout that augments the heavy repeater if shooting is what you like. That would be: Bloodthirst, Excessive force, Martial law and Open Fire. Blood thirst adds lifesteal to your weapon attacks, Excessive strength increase your prune size and the remaining two gives you ammo when you activate Khan's skills.

Earlier I stop with this section, at that place might exist some people, who accept tried Khan or have seen other people use Khan, say "That's load horses**t Khan doesn't always get a high amount of harm at the end of game stats" Regarding that, the answer simple. Khan doesn't e'er spend his time shooting at enemies unlike damage or flank class champions. A good Khan uses and manages well his other skills as well, which nosotros will at present get into.

Total DPS is calculated as: (Damage per shot 10 Magazine count)/( Magazine count x Burn down rate + Reload speed)
Squishes is a term in Paladins community occasionally used to refer to non-frontline champions
Hitscan weapon are a type of weapon in game where bullet travel time is instant
Reduction of harm dealt over range is termed equally damage fall-off

Alternate Burn down: Bulwark

Activate your gauntlet's Barrier with 6000 Health. Regenerates while inactive

Regeneration rate can be increased through cards
Shield tin can be toggled on and off, every bit long as it isn't destroyed
If the shield is destroyed, the shield must recharge to half capacity before being used again
Information technology approximately takes vii seconds to recharge up to half chapters and xiv seconds to fully recharge
While inactive, it regenerates approximately 429 shield health per second

This is Khan'south personal shield, and unlike Khan'southward heavy repeater that mostly has good news, this shield has balanced advantages and disadvantages. Let's start with the disadvantages beginning.

The disadvantage is: It is hella smol. If Makoa's shell shield is a neat dane and Fernando's shield is a german shepherd, Khan's shield is a chihuahua. It is so small that protecting others is a very hard feat. Hell, protecting yourself with information technology is even difficult if you are nether heavy burn. If you exercise plan to protect your teammate with it, you basically take to trunk block with the shield up.

The 2nd biggest disadvantage stems from the fact that it is a smol shield. You tin can only defend yourself from one direction: from the front. Your sides and your dorsum is wide open and susceptible from enemy burn. Just it doesn't end in that location, it won't protect you from above and beneath either. If your enemy is above yous, they could shoot at your head. If they are below yous, they tin can shoot at your anxiety. You can't even look 'up' nor 'down' with your shield to protect yourself if the enemies are above or beneath you.

Now before you say "Its f***ing useless then ain't it", remember that it'due south only the disadvantage, I haven't started with the advantages yet.

Its advantage is: Information technology doesn't take a cooldown. Information technology's a 6000hp shield that you can bring upwardly and downward whenever and whereever the f*** you want to. If there's anything that resembles a cooldown, it's only when the shield gets completely cleaved downwardly. But that's a matter for managing the shield wellness. This reward allows you to protect yourself from annoying things that occasionally isn't much worth using a shield for other frontliners. For instance: Drogoz's floating spit balloon. Y'all tin can easily protect yourself from the spit explosion (assuming it wasn't exploded above your head), or even improve take hold of the spit and prevent the damn affair from exploding in the first place (utilize the shield to catch not your own body because enemy will deal bonus damage on you from it).

There are many cards that augment the strength of your shield, such as increasing recharge rate, increasing shield wellness, healing you when its up. But the best one is Hopeguard, with it, yous receive increased healing when the shield is upwardly, at max level its essentially a costless rejuvenate 3. The reason it'southward the best considering bringing up your shield allows cauterize to finish. Forth with a proficient support you can get yourself to full health from the brink of death in a snap even if at that place are five people shooting at you at the aforementioned time.

My tip in using the shield is to distribute the damage you will receive between your ain health and your own shield. This would essentially brand yous a 10k hp red giant of terror for your enemies. As to how to do the distribution, I'm afraid you lot'll have to learn that with your own. It's something that can't be explained in mere words and feel is the best way y'all can learn it.

First Skill: Boxing Shout

Permit out a fearsome shout, briefly granting damage immunity to yourself. Additionally, heal yourself and nearby allies for one thousand health.

Shout provides ane second harm amnesty
15 second cooldown

No. You read that right. A frontline capable of healing others. No. He is not a support. Khan is a frontline champion that could heal allies. This skill is Khan'south strongest skill

Before y'all shout OP read that its just 1000hp. It's a little less than one-half of your average squishy hp and it'due south besides on a 15 second cooldown. Nonetheless. More oftentimes than non, healing yourself or an ally for 1k would mean the difference between life or death, peculiarly if the enemy has burst champions

There are three different situations where you could best utilise this skill, and each state of affairs caters to the different features of the shout. 1 for the impairment amnesty, one for the cocky heal, and one for healing allies. Of course there times when 2 situations, possibly even all, tin happen at the same fourth dimension. But honestly waiting for such a time to occur would unremarkably end upward the skill being used only once or twice for an entire match. A waste don't you lot think? Hence you should utilize it if fifty-fifty one of the three different situations popular up

When you are expecting a huge corporeality of burst damage, you tin can use the shout for the i second damage immunity. By huge I don't mean HUGE, I mean HUGE amount of impairment. Such as damaging ultimates like Skye bomb, Terminus reanimate, Dredge fidget spinner of death etc. Make sure y'all time information technology right, because most damage ult times have build up fourth dimension and your damage amnesty only lasts one second. It's not gonna be funny for your teammates if you panicked upon hearing a skye shout "Time's ticking" and concluded up using the skill before than you should be. You may use of them for other huge burst of damage like Drogoz disgusting spit fire combo, Imani Kamekameha, Bombking grumpy bomb etc., just it wouldn't be much of worth ya kno, using the shield for those is much more efficient.

For cocky heals, it would hateful that you should this skill equally a means of self sustain. It would help a lot to salve a little burden from your support from directing healing resource to you, allowing the back up to heal your other allies more. (Of grade as a frontline, the back up should still prioritize y'all). A tip I can give y'all is if you are cornered and dying but need to survive for unmarried moment more than, I suggest you bring up your shield for 1.five seconds then employ the battle shout. That should allow for any cauterize to wear off and allow you to go a maximized 1k heal.

As for healing allies, just wait for cauterize to wear off. Like how you lot would do it every bit if you are a back up champion. Practice note that the healing radius is around the size of the capture indicate, it's not that big.

This skill as well has its own cards that tin can augment its strength, in that location'southward one that grants boosted heals upon activation, at that place's 1 that grants a speed buff, and finally at that place is one that reduces cooldown. The nigh important one is the last one I mentioned, which is Never Surrender!.

Oh, by the mode. This is the skill I meant when I said "solidifying squad position" at the intro

Second Skill: Commander's Grab

Surge forward! Grabbing, stunning, and throwing the first enemy yous contact. Deals 600 impairment.

Melee Impairment
i second stun
Grabbed enemies are thrown behind Khan
12 second cooldown

This a motility skill. This is also a harm skill. This is as well a oversupply control (Slang: CC)* skill. A 3 in 1 skill that can be used for three different situations as well, merely like the battle shout. Still unlike the battle shout in that location its usage is much more complex due to the nature of the skil. Fix yourself for a small wall of text that I'm about to slap you with.

Allow's start discussing nigh how to employ the skill equally a move skill. One give-and-take:

DON'T

Personally. Just don't. As much equally you tin, don't use it as a movement skill. It's a waste to apply it as such. The nuance is too slow, at that place's a lot of animation involved, the distance is covered is as well too low, virtually the diameter of the capture point.

Well at that place are cases where you have no choice to use information technology as a movement skill, nearly of such cases is but to escape. Which is adequate. It'll likely end up y'all dying anyhow because of how slow it is.

Simply if you are going to utilise it chase people around… skilful luck, I guess?

TL;DR As much as possible, don't use this skill as a motion skill

In that location'southward non much discussion most using information technology as a damage skill. You could use it as a finisher to ostend kills, yous could apply it equally an opener to gain the advantage confronting your opponent. It's a 600 outburst. Not something that tin can be shrugged off especially when it'due south a squishy.

Now the most important aspect of this skill, is the CC. An easy way to use it as such is on those who are using channeling skills. Why? Because it f***s them up lmao. For case you run across Fernando/Makoa bringing up their gigantic shields, or Androxus with reversal upwardly. Simply be the naughty child, grab them and cancel their skills.

However. It doesn't end there, because information technology's non only a stun on the enemy, it'southward too a knockback, albeit one that goes behind you; where your support and damage dealers are. To put it in analogy, using this skill is akin to you basically throwing a juicy fauna (or juicy branch if you a vegan) into a den of hungry wolves. "So you lot mean I can just grab anyone and threw them at my teammates?". Yes, notwithstanding you have to carefully choose on who you throw to your allies. You can't only willy nilly throw anyone you lot could catch to your allies. What if you lot threw a full health frontline backwards? You lot did throw in a juicy animal to a den of hungry wolves but that animal you threw is a tiger. You lot can expect what will happen right? It's bad. Very bad. A pack of wolves may be able to deal with a tiger only casualties are highly expected. And similar to that your damage class allies may be able to deal with the full wellness frontline only you can expect the frontline to wreak havoc in your backlines. What you desire to throw in is not a tiger, but a juicy lamb, one that your teammates can easily deal with.

This ways that at that place is an order of prioritization.

Beginning and foremost would be the enemy support. You'd want them to be in a position they don't want. They're the juiciest lambs you can find around town.
Second would be any annoying enemy impairment or flank form, especially those who brazenly walked in front of their frontlines.
Concluding would exist the enemy frontlines, but it shouldn't be any frontline. Information technology should be low health frontlines, those who are trying their best to survive. Even a dying tiger can't exist much of a threat against a pack of wolves

Keep this order in listen equally you think of how the wolves will tear these juicy animals part

Yous recall I'm done with this skill? Nopeee. At that place is still more. It's the disadvantage of using this skill every bit damage/CC skill. Think that I said this "dash is also slow, there'southward a lot of blitheness involved, and that it covers likewise little distance"? The disadvantage lies in there. Using this skill leaves you vulnerable. In social club for you to grab and throw someone, yous accept to get a lot closer to them than you'd similar. More frequently than not, you'd end up in positions you don't similar, east.yard. somewhere where all five enemies tin can shoot at you lot at the aforementioned fourth dimension. Fifty-fifty if you managed to grab someone, it might be too in the position where the remaining 4 guns can still shoot at you lot. Which means that while yous are trying to make an offering to your teammates, you might accidentally end upward offering yourself to your enemies. And that's bad.

In club to apply this skill finer as a CC skill, you accept to weigh the risks and benefits. At that place is no way I can list all possible scenarios and tell yous how to do it. The best way for you to learn is to swoop in at that place and grab the feel for yourself. (That line was totally inteded)

NOPE I'M Not Washed Nevertheless. BEAR WITH ME FOR A WHILE. Merely one more paragraph. Afterward all we still have the cards. These cards can help you out a lot. There are iv cards for information technology just only two are crucial. One is the cooldown reduction card, Hulking forcefulness and one that grants damage reduction after grabbing an enemy, Close and personal. These two cards are needed if you are the type to offer up lambs to your allies.

Yes, this is the skill I meant when I said "breaking autonomously enemy lines" at the intro nyahaha

Crowd control or CC are the status furnishings of the game. There are a few different types of CC in game. CC is countered past CC immunity and Resilience

Ultimate: Overpower

Target an enemy and elevate them to you. Yous may move your powerless victim as y'all see fit or send them flight with a mighty blast

This ultimate is a skillshot, meaning you lot take to aim it like you would with a gun
Overpowered enemies gets stunned and silenced that lasts five seconds.
The duration can exist reduced past resilience, with a minimum duration of two seconds.
Target receives fifty direct damage per second for the duration of the concord
Target is thrown away past 100 horizontal units after the duration of the ultimate. Target may be preemptively thrown away before the duration ends
If target hits a wall after being thrown, target receives 700 direct damage.
If target hits another enemy champion, both targets receives 700 directly impairment each
Khan is CC immune for the whole duration
Khan is refunded 30% Ult charge if target dies within 2 seconds or if he misses

Before the change at Patch Burn down and Ice, this ultimate was ane of the reason Khan was a must pick/ban. His Ultimate was a auto aim and was basically a guaranteed impale. By Patch Burn and Ice they changed his ultimate into a skillshot, drastically decreasing his standing amongst the frontlines. However that change doesn't mean that his Overpower is currently weaker that it was before. In fact it may even be stronger as the bounty for the alter was an increase in take hold of range.

There are 2 standard ways to use Khan's ultimate. I relies on map knowledge and terrain, and another requires teammate's coordination.

The first method is utilize the map terrain and environmental hazards and immediately throwing the unwilling victim until kingdom come up. This normally means throwing the enemy at the map border or at other enviromental hazards.

The second method is used if the map terrain is too far or that enemy is smart enough to not go to areas where Khan could hands Overpower them and throw them to their deaths. This involves signaling your teammates that Khan, the sacrificial altar, is prepared and ready to make an offer to whichever deity the teammates gives his praise. Just put, just catch an enemy, shove them in front of the ally and let them gobble up the unfortunate soul.

Khan'southward ultimate is like to his commander'south grab in a few ways. Y'all could say that his ultimate is merely a better version of his skill. 1 example of them existence similar is Overpower puts a single enemy into a position they don't desire. "Then should I use the prioritization order of commander's grab for Overpower as well?" NOPE, unlike the Commander'due south grab, there is no prioritization of which target to Overpower. Typically you should just use it on the enemy principal frontline to brand information technology easier for your team to collapse on the remaining enemies. However you may also cast it on whoever is most abrasive among the enemies. Examples would be their hard carry champions: an Androxus dabbing around, or the 1 in 100 Bugzy level Kinessa, or an Evie teleporting everywhere and nowhere. You could also use it at that annoying prick who uses brain dead, no skill champions and only lovesss to spray and emote on your expressionless body for no reason even if they had no part in your death.

The just important matter to consider upon using Overpower, is where you would use it. The reason is similar to Khan'south 2nd skill besides. Using the Overpower leaves you vulnerable, peculiarly if y'all managed to catch a far target. For the entire time yous are waiting for the enemy to achieve to your easily from his/her original position, you are stuck at your position. While the enemy is in your hands, y'all cannot do anything else only plough and move effectually. You maybe CC immune for the duration, but you are non damage immune. You have to cull a position where y'all could safely catch an enemy where there is an like shooting fish in a barrel access to an ecology take chances or to your teammates, all the while making it difficult for enemies to attain y'all.

Talents

Lian'due south Shield

Bulwark recharges at 100% effectiveness while it is raised

This is the default talent, and is the first talent you would get to utilise for Khan. What this talent does is that your shield would recharge itself every bit it is active. The recharge rate would be as fast as it would be if information technology were inactive. The purpose of this is to increment the defensive capability of the shield while being raised. You should pick this talent if you lot aim to play every bit the point tank.

This talent is more often than not viewed as a bad talent, simply in my own opinion it'southward a viable talent although it could utilise a lilliputian more buffs.

I suggest you should beginning with this talent first in order for you to acquire how to manage the shield wellness and distribute damage between you and your shield.

Storm of Bullets

Your weapon fires 40% faster and has 10 more rounds, simply deals 25% less damage per shot

With this talent, the heavy repeater now fires a 150 direct harm every 0.156 second. This effectively increases your DPS by 18%. What's not mentioned in the description is that there is also some other change to the weapon: recoil. This talent adds a piffling recoil to the weapon, but it's something that's manageable.

This talent has been my favorite talent since its release and trust me, it is very enjoyable. If I were to describe this talent with a single discussion. It would be " Oppressive "

Why?

Call up when I said you could "act with impunity" at the master weapon section? That was the base weapon. With this talent you could fifty-fifty force per unit area the anchor-wielding pissed-off Makoa* (You yet can't claiming him though) If y'all can manage to land half of your magazine with headshots you could chunk off a third of an ulting Makoa of his health. And that's only half the magazine. Even if you lot don't feel like landing headshots and simply content with body shots you could already chunk off one-half the health of an ulting Makoa if y'all land the majority of your shots on him. With another ally shooting at him, the both of you could melt big scary tortoise pretty fast.

Generally y'all should use this talent if y'all plan to act every bit a bruiser tank although it's non impossible to play point tank with this as well.

Makoa in his Ancient rage has a base wellness of 9500

Vortex Grip

Victims of Commander's Grab are stunned for an additional 2s

This talent is a large must if you lot similar to grab people and scout them suffer as they desperately mash their escape push button for 3 seconds HAHAHAHA

On a more than serious note, yous should pick this talent over Storm of Bullets if your team lacks CC skills. Just as it is with my favorite, this talent is mostly for bruiser tank playstyle but its not also impossible to play point tank with this 1.

Basic Info Source

Loadouts

In edifice your loadouts it'southward best to test it yourself simply the general gist is that:

Must take at to the lowest degree i of the core cards at high level in your loadout
Adept cards are cards that are useful at any level (All core cards are practiced but not all good cards are among the core cards)
Situational cards are cards that are only skillful at high level but non useful as filler cards
Bad cards are cards that may be used as filler cards but never invest more points in it. Merely if possible don't even bother using information technology at all

Core Cards	Proficient Cards	Situational Cards	Bad Cards
PlatemailIncrease base health	Shut and PersonalGrab damage reduction	Vigorous DefenseSustain on shield	Shield WallIncrease shield wellness
Never SurrenderBattle shout CDR	Into the BreachSpeed buff on shout	Ready for WarIncrease shield hp recharge	Hold the LineShout heal increase
Hulking StrengthGrab CDR	LifetakerCdr on eliminations		ChokeholdGrab heal
HopeguardShield rejuvenate	BloodthirstAdd lifesteal
	Excessive ForceClipsize increase
	Open FireAmmo on shout
	Martial LawAmmo on catch

I will be showing my loadouts equally an case:

1. Primary loadout

Never Surrender5

Platemail4

Excessive Force4

Open Fire1

Bloodthirst1

This is the loadout I mainly employ. It'south by and large to be partnered with the talent Tempest of bullets, and I unremarkably practise bruiser tank playstyle with this loadout.

two. Trust the support

Hopeguard5

Never Surrender4

Platemail4

Ready for War1

Open Fire1

This is the loadout I use when I have complete trust on the player playing support. Which means I never use this when I play solo. Information technology doesn't matter for me which talent I employ for this one.

3. Difficult diver

Hulking Strength5

Shut and Personal4

Never Surrender4

Platemail1

Bloodthirst1

For this loadout, I utilize information technology with Vortex grip and as with my main loadout I do it for a bruiser tank playstyle.

4. Erstwhile main loadout

Never Surrender5

Hopeguard4

Into the Breach4

Lifetaker1

Open Fire1

This was the one-time loadout I used before Patch 2.01. During that time I still had complete trust in random players using support.

5. Experimental loadout

Hopeguard5

Never Surrender4

Vigorous Defense4

Set up for War1

Never surrender1

This is a loadout I fooled around with when I was trying to make the talent Lian'southward shield as strong as possible. This is meant to be played as point tank and it doesn't really matter which talent to use with this ane even though information technology was made for Lian's shield.

If you do not trust these ones you may besides copy pro player loadouts to get you a boost. Feel gratis to edit any loadouts you copy equally you lot go used to playing Khan

If you'd like more than information on playing Khan, check out Jay Flare's guide to playing Khan:

Besides as Joshino's own guide to Khan:

Alarm though, this videos withal has info on Firing Line, an old talent of Khan that was removed by Patch 2.01. This talent was also 1 of the biggest reason why Khan was a must pick/ban frontline before Patch 2.01

I hope yous find this guide helpful, not just to beginner Khan players only likewise to experienced ones. May you lot find Khan enjoyable as much equally I do with him

This guide is not perfect and yous don't necessarily accept to follow everything written hither. Sometimes playing your ain style can be a good way to play any champion. And equally information technology is not perfect, this guide can, and will be improved over fourth dimension as we larn more about Khan'due south synergies and as more than champions and maps will exist added to game.