Shaco Box Concept

Draig·2/21/2016, 6:10:43 AM·2 votes·985 views

I feel that Shaco's boxes aren't being used as they should be, they're more of a 'place a box near enemies, hope they don't kill it in time and possibly get a fear' and less of a strategic spell. Now i know some players that are good with Shaco can use these boxes very strategically to their advantage, but still they're kind of finicky to work with. I thought up an idea that may help with bringing forward some of these strategic based play styles, which will hopefully make boxes more of a unique addition to his kit.


[W] - OLD Jack In The Box COST: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 MANA COOLDOWN: 16

ACTIVE: Shaco summons a box at the target location that stealths after a 2-second delay and lasts for up to 60 seconds. If an enemy springs the trap, it opens and causes surrounding enemies to turn and Fear icon flee while it attacks nearby enemies for up to 5 seconds. FLEE DURATION: 0.5 / 0.75 / 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 MAGIC DAMAGE PER ATTACK: 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 / 95 (+ 20% AP)


[W] - UPDATED Jack In The Box COST: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 MANA COOLDOWN: 5 ( 25 per charge)

ACTIVE: Shaco consumes a charge to summon a box at the target location after a 2-second delay and lasts for 45 seconds. If an enemy Champion or neutral monster (minions wont open it) walks by, it opens and causes surrounding enemy champions and neutral monsters to turn and flee while it attacks nearby champions and neutral monsters for up to 5 seconds. Holds up to 3 Charges. FLEE DURATION: 1 / 1.125 / 1.25 / 1.375 / 1.5 MAGIC DAMAGE PER ATTACK: 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 / 95 (+ 20% AP) (+7% of targets missing health)


With this change, you'll be able to place boxes in the way of minions with no penalty, place boxes strategically at certain choke points without having to wait for 16 seconds, and, with the missing health damage you can use them to finish off low health enemies who walk towards one of your cleverly placed traps.

7 Comments

Fondling Gems2/21/2016, 6:21:47 AM1 votes

This would kill shaco jg so monsters would have to proc it too

Shac Norris2/21/2016, 8:13:59 AM1 votes

No, this would kill lane Shaco, as his boxes are necessary to CS.

AnOtterFailure10/8/2016, 8:24:44 PM1 votes

I want them to update his boxes in some way but his wave clear is pretty awful and would only be worse if his boxes didn't activate. I wouldn't mind taking it so that boxes set in bushes only activated if they entered a bush. I'd also like if they had hit points similar to Zyra's plants but they scaled with points put into your ult so that they could scale decently into the late game for survivability (They die way too fast from people accidentally hitting them with aoe spells.) Experience: Playing Shaco since Season 2. Guess we'll just have to hope the assassin patch helps~