So... about shaco, you guys are always saying you want to help champions strengths and their character, but you've done the opposite with shaco.
His big traits were: really good early game, bad late game, good at split pushing, bad at team fights, mind games, and trickery.
Now, what happened? You guys have given him a better late and weaker early, a better team fight potential and worse splitpushing, gimmicky buffs to his trickery.
I see something wrong when a lot of shaco players do not like the changes and they completely change his play style. What pushed you guys to do this just because some people find it hard to face shaco or play against him.
He is also now forced to max q first no matter the situation instead of having options between all 3 depending on play style. That just plain wrong. Would it not of been better to nerf his early game by changing the mana costs instead of changing his kit?
Passive: Was a really simple passive that fit thematically and was good dispite many other champs getting increasingly complex passives and abilities. Now part of shaco q replaces it and has a cool down as well as not affecting all his abilities.
Q: This was actually one of the best assassin abilities made because it means shaco has one way in, or one way out, but he can't use it for both unless he stays in the fight a bit. This is a really well made ability for shaco, it makes him rely on other means to get out of a fight and not die if he can't quickly do his job. Now the changes mean his early game absolutely sucks, he is forced to max q first so that it isn't just a vayne ult tumble which means he can't upgrade e. And e's base damage was completely gutted so it does no damage early game and since you need to max q first it won't deal damage until mid to late game. I just don't understand why this was done. Why completely change his play style?
(Also, what's the reasoning behind giving it an ap ratio? What are the thoughts behind this move?)
W: Ok, I see there is a bias towards ap shaco here, the buffs here are fine at best, IF THE STACKING WASNT REMOVED, the stacking is so vital in shaco's early game and late game if you are going ap or if you want to cancel some abilities like a fear should. Also, I get that you guys don't like his playstyle of splitpushing when he starts to fall off, but really, why nerf the damage of his box which is already prioritized by towers to do even less damage to towers. Why? Just why? The buffs to this ability feel like really terrible compensation buffs to the changes. But just what was the idea behind removing the stacking?
E: Ok, you can't just gut the 2 damaging abilities and then force us to max the one that deals less damage. One of shaco strengths is having a good early game, you can't just completely destroy his early game. The base damage of the shiv is gutted all the way to the ground. Straight through the ground. You do realize that many different builds are helped because this ability has decent base damage? Like tank, or bruiser? These changes are not just going to force him into maxing certain abilities, but also into either ap or ad, other builds were crushed. I get that the ad ratio was buffed to include base damage, but what about that needed ap ratio?
R: less damage to towers, takes DOUBLE damage from towers so splitpushing is killed. Take away his splitpushing power so that he can get a mini "pink ward" joke that is quite useless. What the hell was going on the head of whoever thought this? Seriously? Why?
Conclusion: a ton of shaco mains hate the changes, you know the guy who created a ton of great content and had a great shaco name? You know shaclone? Yeah he quit cause of these changes. Nice job.
Actual conclusion: Completely changing his playstyle, ruining his early game and his splitpushing, removing his ideas and gameplay even though most dedicated shaco players do no like the changes. Why is he going from an early game power stopped if you play against him right to a late game guy with a ruined early game? Why is there a need to make him a team fighter from him being bad at team fights and good at splitpushing, why the need to change it? Shaco was one of the kings of different play styles and builds, that's ruined now. His main strengths gutted to move them to the opposite of what they were. I don't see why these changes were implemented. Shaco isn't popular, takes a lot of practice to be good with him, people who play shaco don't wasn't him to be like this. If this is how a small adjusting is, I can't imagine how that shaco vgu (that rioters keep saying they want to do in the future) will go, I don't want to lose faith, but these changes make me want to. Im already dealing with trump being elected, I don't want to deal with my favorite champ to be gutted like this. Just please, listen and revert these changes, they're not wanted.
Solutions:
1: Revert these changes, now, we don't want to play with them.
2: No really, stop, revert them.
3: Please, it's not the way we want shaco's gameplay and playstyle to head.
4: If you want to nerf his early game, nerf his mana costs, his q goes from 90-50 which is an effective way to make sure that he can't use his q much early game and let's him be a bit more carefree late game. Why not do this a bit more for his q and bit for his e?
5: Don't take away builds, upgrade paths, and play styles just because his early game is bit strong for those who don't ward the river bushes and then say his ganks are op. Find ways to nerf his early game other than drastically changing who he is.
6: Whatever you do, DO NOT LEAVE HIM LIKE THIS AND ATTEMPT TO MAKE SLIGHT BUFFS AND SAY THAT YOU ARE MONITERING HIM AND HOW IS DOING. Just don't. This has happened before and has left those champs gutted with their player base sad and angry. We do not want that to happen to shaco.
7: Talk with shaco players about the changes, I don't think any changes have been made despite the outcry.
Thank you for reading all this, I'm not giving a tldr, just read it. Please consider how shaco players feel about these changes. And please, just revert them, I know you guys will say you are moniterring the situation and watching how he is doing, we get it, but we don't want him in this state, we want him like he is before the preseason.
