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Can we please FIX SHACO

Silketa·6/13/2018, 2:35:06 AM·1 votes·932 views

As someone who really likes to play Shaco and the idea of playing as an ASSASSIN that has one of the BEST kits for outplaying. The problem is that this ASSASSIN champion has NO DMG. Pretty much hes only usable in silver and bronze where people really don't have the slightest clue how to counter and don't care about that. So lets see, as an ASSASSIN the best runes for someone like Shaco are electrocute or dark harvest. Now we get to the heart of Shaco's problem. Gold and above:

  • ELECTROCUTE: This is so far the best burst rune u can get for ASSASSINS. Safe and sound dmg through the entire game BUT when you SCREW with your ASSASSINS DMG this is really not that good. Now people will cry out "BUT HES BROKEN WITH DMG"... NO!!! Hes NOT, he gets countered by vision and early collapsing. By the way ain't the point of ASSASSINS to BURST DOWN champions (and you kinda Fed that up). So with low dmg Shaco doesn't have much use out of electrocute.
  • DARK HARVEST: Now this fixes the dmg part since you can stack it up to oneshot people BUT this makes it easier for people to counter him. Basically all they have to do is screw with your jungle camps and you are sooooooo useless and guess what in gold + than can do that. So you will rarely get to that good dmg. Angry player:" BUT WHEN HE GETS STACKS HES OP!!!"... Well look at it like this, IF ANY CHAMPION GETS A LOT OF STACKS HE WILL BE OP....

So can we please make Shaco a decent ASSASSIN again. YES, ASSASSINS SHOULD HAVE DMG. I mean look at Zed, he has the dmg and stacking on ult now and that is fine. But dmg Shaco is such a bad idea... Why not just make him a tank, there are no tanks with stealth so there. Least make him good for something...

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3 Comments

MorganFreemanBot6/13/2018, 2:40:27 AM1 votes

The problem is that Shaco's kit is innately toxic design.

I say this as someone who absolutely HATES the term "toxic" as a buzzword, and pretty much never use it.

Shaco has a fuckton of outplay potential, but he's also not difficult to play. When he has solid damage all he does is Q in > back stab + shiv throw > get free kill. That's it. His damage, as an assassin, is a point-and-click ranged spell combined with a melee auto attack from true stealth. There's really not much outplaying to be done other than deep warding, which you can't do 100% of the time.

Yes, I know about the smoke. However it's not hard to Q from where someone isn't looking, and it's a pretty small particle to notice when you're fighting / laning.

Boxes and ulti are the good parts of shaco's kit. They offer him strong outplay potential and reward planning + deception, but they're coupled with far too reliable nukes and ease of access. Unfortunately something has to give.