Shaco Update?

Preferred·5/28/2015, 7:15:50 PM·1 votes·716 views

Shacos ability's are in need of an update. Deceive, Shacos Q, has a smoke cloud that appears when it's casted. The problem is, the smoke cloud can be seen through the fog of war. So if a enemy summoner was paying attention, they can see the smoke and back away from the gank. Another problem.. Hallucinate, Shacos Ultimate.. When Shaco uses Hallucinate, you can click on one of the Shacos to see which one has a buff and which one doesn't, like Dragon Slayers buff for example. It makes it extremely easy to distinguish which is which. I love Shaco and would really like to see some improvement towards him. Thank you! -Preferred

2 Comments

Zarxis5/28/2015, 7:40:36 PM2 votes

The Q smoke is intentional; it counterbalances the fact that Shaco is otherwise entirely undetectable if he uses his Q before he enters a warded area.

The lack of indicators on Shaco's Hallucinate clone is a bug or design oversight that Riot has failed to rectify, probably because (despite this being a quality-of-life type change... It's meant to be a clone, not an obvious fake, and it's supposed to have everything Shaco has besides his abilities) it would be a buff to Shaco. Riot doesn't like buffing Shaco because although Shaco does have plenty of counterplay and is a balanced, unique champion with a high skill ceiling, he tends to incite rage from players (on both his team and the enemy team) that don't know how (or refuse) to play around his strengths and weaknesses.

Compare playing Shaco to playing Meepo or Techies in DotA— you're likely to piss off both teams with your antics (whether you're winning or not) because your playstyle is unique and may not follow typical expectations for your character's role.

Axests5/28/2015, 7:34:30 PM1 votes

I think shaco's fine as is until he gets a rework. He's strong in this meta and has been seeing a lot of play. The problem with taking away the q smoke cloud is the free invisibility he gets with no downfall, it's the same reason twitch has a delay and sound indicator when he de-stealths and evelynn has a distance before being sighted. The ultimate would be a little too strong with no indicators though this has been brought up, the problem being it would make any ult fights with shaco a 50-50 going into favor of shaco.