Nope, atm due to several factors he's fine atm. Just that:
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Players think W is a useless skill past mid game and don't even know how to begin utilizing it for AD shaco.
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Difference in role for top vs jungle shaco atm
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People keep fully building the jungle item when it's just ineffective
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People are going in the wrong skill orders(Some still think Q is supposed to be maxed when it isn't even needed, esp if you're jungling correctly working with a blink+2-3 seconds of stealth is easily done)
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People are blinded by lethality changes when overall only duskblade was useful thus ineffectively building (now duskblade is essential imo but only as a maybe 3rd/4th core item) (Youmuus is kinda useful to a point but if I get mobility I tend to rush other core items) (Kinda less true slightly after the E changes I should keep in mind)
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People quite frankly think if what they always done isn't always working then it means he's trash. Thus I'm heavily convinced people just want to rage at riot for changing shaco and refuse to go back to being flexible. Hell I'd even go so far to say you have to put more dedication into choosing runes, masteries, items, skill order per match than most other champs
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Perception of changes, shaco got a massive utility buff for only a slightly weaker early game stealth and people refused to actually make smarter calls of going in to completely negate that. They properly removed the ratio from Q onto passive so it could proc more for ap shaco or if AD shaco got alittle AP through runes+masteries people think they completely removed damage from Q when it didn't even have damage in the first place(after the rework it basically just did an AA nothing more but riot thought it was a good idea to still include the AA damage on the skill).
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Finally the recent change to remove the monster killing power of shaco's E for more player killing power only if you're AD shaco. Yes that did kill AP shaco completely, however it was a good buff to AD shaco's killing power, having a bit of lethality, and really makes shaco's W a powerful tool when used correctly
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People lack deceptive natures if they don't play shaco often or feel it's 100% useless in all situations of you trying to escape and thus ulti isn't always used to the fullest for disengage purposes(Being too easy to tell apart because they refuse to actually practice)
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There are a few bugs on shaco still
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They don't ban properly, there are a lot of meta stuff yes, however when choosing to ban some just ban cause of feelings instead learning most matchups and only ban to prevent a strategic advantage over shaco with the extremely difficult ones.
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One thing shaco does take is pre-planning, Can't just Q/R anytime it's up, sometimes it's better to first get W going in several paths, R to bait out things or if you feel you can confirm enough damage save R to run away. But most really and truly believe shaco is this simplistic to understand and use champ. Which is also why I don't see better choices than shaco, but EASIER choices. People just lack the willingness that shaco needs to perform.
Overall atm I don't see shaco as being weak even vs double or triple tank teams, and hell if he's weak vs other assassins he can pull teams over the map and keep up heavy zone control and pressure late game as long as you pre-plan properly.
He can actually one-shot with 4 core items+boots late/end game on squishy targets, which led me to having a defensive item for the 6th slot although you have to properly and either split pushing with boxes aimed towards jungle paths or if I want to teamfight, I first make sure boxes are setup for teammates not just for picks which also functions well vs tanks.
Yes there are other champs who could do some stuff easier than shaco, but shaco overall is being made out to be this easy and simplistic champ which he NEVER was. Thus until I feel like other players properly understand him again, I'd rather them not give him anything he doesn't need.
Just changing his stealth to scale per level so Q is a true one point wonder and fixing some bugs is enough. But he doesn't need anything else atm. (Maybe this'll change when runes and masteries are changed since I doubt shaco can get as much hybrid potential from just the new runes reforged than the current runes and masteries
