AP Shaco and Teemo needs some love (read before downvoting)

Shac Norris·Nov 26, 2015·2 votes·790 views

With the addition of the new trinket, Shaco's boxes (and teemo's shrooms) are now completly useless when even 1 person uses the trinket. (there's usually 2 per team who buy them every game)

While i do like the fact that the trinket doesn't act as a pink ward anymore, which is good for champions with stealth, i don't like it when the enemy laner only has to get a free item which doesn't take an inventory slot to negate 1/2 of my damage

The change that i propose is to make it so that it disables the traps for 1 second only (or close to that), it would still reveal them, but it wouldn't make the traps completly useless. -_- aaaaand NOW you can downvote it, like all threads concerning ap Shaco gets downvoted, maybe.

-_-

7 Comments

Twisted TeaNov 26, 20151 votes

I didn't realize anyone played Shaco anywhere other than Jungle and any build other than Jungle + Hydra... As for the Shrooms, maybe Teemo could use a(nother) personal buff; being able to plant more Shrooms, having a lower Cooldown or something, to offset how easily they can be dispatched.

Shac NorrisNov 26, 20151 votes

Yeah, AP Shaco is not known by everybody, but the few who know it and know how to play it are feared by so many champions

OnimarusNov 26, 20151 votes

AP Shaco is a gimmick build. He relies heavily not on boxes, but on stacking boxes and abusing enemy ignorance.

Instead of proposing a nerf to a much-needed item in this meta, propose a change to Shaco's kit so he could be played AP without being irrelevant past laning phase.

As for Teemo, I doubt trinket would be up enough to cover all the mushrooms. It's fine as is (in regards to the interaction between them)

Shac NorrisNov 26, 20151 votes

So you admit that he relies on boxes, right?

It's right that he relies on stacking boxes, but he can be countered so easily by having the enemies not staying in the middle of boxes anyway

Also concerning Shaco's kit, i'm fine with it, even though he needs a few changes. Riot refuses to answer any questions concerning Shaco's balance anyway so i don't think anything will be done concerning that.

MathbalnaseNov 26, 20151 votes

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As for Teemo, I doubt trinket would be up enough to cover all the mushrooms. It's fine as is (in regards to the interaction between them)

Nor should it be. No trinket should come anywhere close to negating every use of any champions' ULT. That would be absurdly broken.

Shac NorrisNov 26, 20151 votes

and by the way, that trinket may be useful ''in this meta'' as you said, BUT it doesn't have to counter 100% of a champions ultimate for 10 seconds, and 1/2 of another champion's damage just because it's ''an useful item'' I didn't ask for it to be removed, i only asked for it to be fair for all champions

MathbalnaseNov 26, 20151 votes

Teemo needs far more extensive changes before Riot will allow him to be powerful. Somewhere in the vicinity of a full rework, really.