Riot decides to shove AP shaco down everyone's throat when it was a fun off build for people (like myself) to mess around with.
(I have around 95% of my games as AP Shaco rather than AD, I'm level 5 and I love'd to play AP Shaco because it was really fun to mess with people, when your boxes deal like 150 dmg per hit and you could stack them up.)
Riot: Now that we've ruined an off meta build for a character and made it the only viable build, lets nerf it to the ground and make the champion completely useless for a few seasons.
Season 10
Riot: We've reworked shaco into a anti engage marksman that can blink around the map and kill people as long as you set up your damage first. We think he'll be an excellent counter Urgot, another champion we've very recently reworked but find a bit too strong. His passive no longer crits but now grants him a spellshield that blocks global ultimates only. His new Q allows him to blink to target location, within a short distance, but no longer lets him become invisible because that gives him too much ganking power. His W is the same except it no longer fears because we feel like that's unfair for players to play against. His E is now a skillshot but deals much more damage. His E also no longer deals damage to jungle monsters, because we felt like his clear is too healthy and he takes no damage in the jungle. He no longer has a combat ultimate but leveling his R causes him to give all targets in the area immunity to death and teleport them in a direction. We took heavy inspiration form other champion's kits but also decided to give him his own identity.
Players: Mother of god....
. So now instead of doing less damage with backstab, he has a 50% chance to do the same damage he would do attacking from the front
