Let's Discuss: Shaco and Nunu

Elohaven··1 votes·305 views

I want to post my thoughts and see the community's as well.

These two champions don't have a stellar winrate but gameplay health is something I feel they have damaged.

Nunu, in my opinion, is one of the strongest champions out there now. He gives the AP equivalent of a rabadons for average AP mages (Veigar is ridiculous). He has a point-and-click slow that is spammable and up once the slow is gone. He also deals massive amounts of damage with his large AoE ultimate forcing the backline to back away as the frontline gets nuked down and causes the teamfight to be lost.

Listen, buffs just came out - but this is my experience so far. We still have to wait a while but these buffs are looking quite painful to play against in the scenarios I have been placed in. He's not absolutely OP and broken. Seems in a reasonable spot in terms of direction but also very strong in other cases.

Shaco himself - with dark harvest - is the most aggravating thing. IMO, Shaco outscales Vayne and Twitch now with his new build. He can instantly delete any squishy with DH+Duskblade+Shiv+Ravenous and that's not even full build. There's no reaction time, no time to prepare for it. He gets a 14 second stealth, pops, and deletes.

Granted, squishies building a frozen heart or randuins can let them survive but he still chunks through 70% of their HP and the squishies lose significant benefits.

I just think these two champions should be looked at and focused on. They're rising in popularity.

5 Comments

L Psy Kongroo1 votes

Shaco is actually one of the weaker assassins currently. Not only is he THE most item-dependent champion in the game, he also suffers from "old Sion syndrome". By that I mean, if you build AD half your kit is worthless but if you build AP the other half is worthless. Riot has always had problems pegging Shaco's niche and balancing him around it, but this season is even worse for him. Even Pink Ward is struggling to make AP Shaco work, and he plays it better than anyone.

By contrast, AD Shaco's burst is quite strong. However 90% of that burst comes from items. As you mentioned, Duskblade + Shiv along with Hydra and Triforce give him insane damage. But the catch is, without gaining an early lead to secure enough gold for his damage, he is by far the weakest assassin in the game. His base abilities are terrible as far as damage goes, so he relies on item damage to compensate.

Shaco is only a problem when the items he builds are a problem. And since AD items are super efficient right now (especially Duskblade and Shiv) he hits his powerspike sooner, which gives him the luxury of taking Dark Harvest to help with his poor scaling.

skoulker1 votes

As a shaco player, I can tell you don't play this game often. Full AP nunu shouldn't even be talked about as broken gameplay because shouldn't be played in ranked at all lmao. Tell your carry to build GA and tabis and see what shaco does, not even considering your support exhausting the shaco or shielding/healing. LOL

Elohaven1 votes

As a shaco player, I can tell you don't play this game often

Statement could be used to yourself as well since Nunu is seen to many players to be OP right now.

I also stated I don't believe Shaco is OP - but his new playstyle doesn't feel fun to play against. It's a reference to health - not strength. I did state the build is counterable too.

Perhaps reading the post will allow you to gain that insight.

skoulker1 votes

"Outscales VAYNE and twitch" "Squishies building frozen heart" shaco sucks ass right now the only reason people think he's annoying is builds. Stopwatch oh look shaco just inted into my team to do half of my hp to have me stopwatch. GA oh look shaco inted himself to pop my GA. Oh look tabis shaco just inted himself to do 30% of my hp. The only reason this doesn't happen is if he gets fed early, which is kinda hard with DH.

KlydeFrog1 votes

umm okay if you think he is that op go in ranked and use him and carry ?

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