https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nopHWUZTT3k
Video of Chinese Jester testing builds trying to make it work.
I'm also going to be really disappointed if Bruiser Shaco is how they WANT Shaco to be played. I would be fine with AP Shaco(which Pink Ward seems to be having to build hybrid to make work now), but Bruiser Shaco is just not how I expect Shaco to be played.
Tyto Mors1 votesYaaaaa, cant do my job as an assassin. wooooooooooooo, ty for forcing me to play a champ as a bruiser who you put in the assassin rework.
Sohleks1 votesThat is how Riot wants him to be played because Riots bad at balancing stats and items between classes. Tank items in particular
Maybe ADCs shouldn't be allowed to build 
at 2.5 items. Cause that is what he's trying to insta kill.
+400hp +30armor +12% auto reduction
Not to mention Ruined King active and lifesteal
Ruined King and Cleaver have nerfs planned and Tabis need them too
I think it's less of an item problem and more that it's unnecessary to build a bit extra damage when baseline defense is so low so you might as well multiply your life expectancy by a large percent if an item allows you to do so at minimum trade off. Maybe everyone in the game needs more hp/level with hybrid offense defense items taking the slight hit
Also it doesn't help they are level 18 with level 18 health with a low amount of items.
Items need to be balanced versus other items. Champions versus other champions. Masteries versus the other mastery trees.
You can't have weak tank champions with overpowered mid game items with weak then strong then nerfed to balanced masteries. You can't nerf every on-hit item in the game because there was pre-nerf fervor of battle. Then have "Tank Ekko" abusing both. It's simply just constantly shuffling shit because they won't identify problems individually. Defense itemization has been imbalanced ever since the removal of the original last whisper in preseason 6. The meta game has matured since the early days and its been a constant race of bulkyness wars.
VoraciousX1 votesThat is how Riot wants him to be played because Riots bad at balancing stats and items between classes. Tank items in particular
Maybe ADCs shouldn't be allowed to build
+400hp +30armor +12% auto reduction
Not to mention Ruined King active and lifesteal
Ruined King and Cleaver have nerfs planned and Tabis need them too
I think it's less of an item problem and more that it's unnecessary to build a bit extra damage when baseline defense is so low so you might as well multiply your life expectancy by a large percent if an item allows you to do so at minimum trade off. Maybe everyone in the game needs more hp/level with hybrid offense defense items taking the slight hit
Also it doesn't help they are level 18 with level 18 health with a low amount of items.
Items need to be balanced versus other items. Champions versus other champions. Masteries versus the other mastery trees.
You can't have weak tank champions with overpowered mid game items with weak then strong then nerfed to balanced masteries. You can't nerf every on-hit item in the game because there was pre-nerf fervor of battle. Then have "Tank Ekko" abusing both. It's simply just constantly shuffling shit because they won't identify problems individually. Defense itemization has been imbalanced ever since the removal of the original last whisper in preseason 6. The meta game has matured since the early days and its been a constant race of bulkyness wars.
I'm so tired of on-hit getting nerfed over and over again as well, but I haven't heard Riot say anything about bruiser Shaco, but how he plays I'd think they'd prefer assassin just because bruiser makes him so much easier. They're just nerfing the wrong things, or they actually do want to force Shaco into bruiser. If they don't want AD assassin Shaco I'm totally fine with that so long as they actually make AP Shaco worth playing,rather than being forced into being a strange hybrid AP/AD build. If they want him to be AP they should give him more outplay potential(his boxes can be one shot, so giving them more HP per AP would be a reasonable QOL change imo), if they want him to AD he should have more AD ratios, and if they want him to be bruiser he shouldn't be considered an assassin.