Shaco now with no counters.

Onikenshin·1/17/2015, 1:40:55 AM·1 votes·749 views

With Lee sin now being permabanned and vision elixer removed where is no longer a counter to shaco. I have been plagued with him killing our entire team late game in a few hits due to his attack speed and damage increase from behind. You can do nothing because of his fear box.

So this seems very unbalanced at the very least he can cripple 2 or more of your teammate before you can actually react. The sight wards don't do anything due to him jumping walls. Then the only effective counter would be to buy all wards with invisible sight which adds more cost and rebuy because they can and will be killed by the enemy team.

What steps are going to be taken to balance this rather than jsut permabanned? I don't think the balance should be banning champions.

4 Comments

InSingedWeTrust1/17/2015, 1:44:15 AM4 votes

You're joking, right?

Be Kind Rewind1/17/2015, 1:45:30 AM4 votes

I think you have a status-quo bias. I'll call it the 'Lee Syndrome'.

When champions like Lee appear in every single game for years, and one appears in a game, you expect it. You know he's overwhelmingly strong, you know he's been this way and he's staying this way for the foreseeable future, and you know he'll be picked often.

"Then - wait, what's this? Someone picked Shaco? A non-meta champion? Well, surely they'll pay. Surely they'll get roflstomped for not playing one of the very few competitively viable champions.

Wait - what? They actually killed people?? They actually managed to carry, and they weren't Lee Sin??? WTF Riot, this isn't Lee, this isn't Zed, this isn't Lucian, why are you allowing this non-meta champion to be viable now?? Fucking nerf them!"

Meep Man1/17/2015, 1:43:05 AM3 votes

Umm, Shaco isn't permabanned because he doesn't contribute at all in a team fight unless he can kill the enemy ADC AND APC without getting blown up. If he can do that, he was fed and you would have needed to peel better.

TheKingDodo1/17/2015, 3:12:01 AM1 votes

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