The Elephant in the Room: Shaco

originary91·3/3/2017, 2:38:46 AM·3 votes·615 views

Currently has a really high winrate across all tiers, a high playrate, cancerous early game, strong mid game and isn't falling off lategame, and there's not much difference in WR between experienced, and new Shaco players.

I'm sorry, am I missing something here? Since when was that allowed? What happened to 'high skill cap, niche champ, has the potential for an abusively strong early game at the tradeoff of having a weak lategame, needs an experienced player for its full potential to be actualized, Shaco?'

Shaco isn't a simple champion. He isn't from a stable class (assassins traditionally have slightly lower winrates that should scale up higher with experience), and he doesn't have a kit that's simple to play against with clear indicators of counterplay. Furthermore, it's not a small pool of players that are inflating his WR, it's quite the opposite, his pickrate in plat and above is 9.4%, and isn't much lower in lower regions either.

He's been like this since he was reworked, first his AP builds were hotfixed, but for some reason he's slid under the radar since then despite being an obnoxious champion which, like Evelynn, should be immediately nerfed if they ever achieve both a high winrate and high playrate at the same time.

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Big Lincoln3/3/2017, 5:31:17 AM2 votes

'high skill cap, niche champ, has the potential for an abusively strong early game at the tradeoff of having a weak lategame,

This never happened, not before rework, and not after

pre-rework he slumped mid-game if not fed and then became a beast late; post-rework he's weakest early and steadily scales up.

shaco's kit is actually fairly weak on its own merits, besides the stealth; all of his strength RN is coming from how stupid he gets with items. Right now, he's just stacking lethality and going for backstab one-shots with the full pen

VelvetCrotch3/3/2017, 5:24:36 AM1 votes

there is and was never a high skill cap for many champs, shaco too. especially since they changed the invis and pinkwards. (that was one the biggest mistakes ever riot did. why? cause invis is and will be one of the most unbalanced things. so if u implement it, give the enemys more reliable opportunities aka smoke of detection, a shimmer like it is for rengo and twitch etc.)