And... There goes Shaco. It's been fun playing League with you all.

Shaco's win rate has fallen to 51%. You may say to me: "Chicken, that's not so bad!" But when you look at the graphs

( http://champion.gg/champion/Shaco/Jungle ) and take into account that the people keeping it higher are the Shaco mains themselves, then we might run into a problem. Shaco has a sub-50% win rate for well over half the game and only has a positive win-rate when everyone is max build.

By having a feast-or-famine champion who scales only with gold deal no damage in the early or mid parts of the game, you're causing a huge problem. Shaco can no longer reliably be picked to do his primary job, and Bruiser Shaco has become the norm because it's the only way he can even think of keeping up with other champions. He's one of the weakest champions in the game right now when his job is to be a ganking, invading, and assassinating Jungler.

He can't invade, he can't really protect himself if he's invaded, he can't gank reliably until 4 (and even then, he has no damage so most of the damage will be provided by the person he's ganking for. You'd better hope they have CC too, otherwise you're just wasting your time unless the enemy is on top of your turret.

As for assassination? There's a reason he's being played as a Bruiser now. More of a utility-damage pseudo-tank pick because he simply can't compare with his competition.

By giving Shaco a kit that does nothing but offer utility and scale with his items, Shaco has been forced out of his primary role and with the recent changes by completely removing Deceive's damage and upping its CD by a few seconds and making it so he always cries with Backstab as if he were level five, not only did Riot succeed in finally removing AD Shaco, but also in nerfing AP Shaco's burst as well, turning him into somewhat of a sustained-fighter, which is bad because Shaco can't do that very well unless he's...

Built as a Bruiser.

Riot turned Shaco into a Bruiser, and then nerfed every way he could be built, including as a Bruiser.

Shaco is now in a worse state than he was before his rework, and that's not OK. I hope and pray that Riot will see their error and fix Shaco in the upcoming patches.

The only reason I stuck around to play League has been officially removed from the game. I know those of you who didn't want to play around obvious stealth mechanics are happy, but I, and some other Shaco players, feel extremely cheated by this, since it honestly was the reason we kept coming back to play League.