Shaco, Shaco, and Shaco. Why did he get ruined?
EDIT: thunderlords wont proc on backstab hit for some reason. also if your disagreeing with me, tell me why in comments, maybe i could be wrong and he is a sleeper OP and im just building him wrong.
So in this recent patch, I was a Shaco main, and speaking for every Shaco main I can say he is 100% weaker then he was the patch previous. here is why;
his new backstab mechanic has a cooldown on champions, though I can agree 50% extra damage every auto to a back is too much, it should have been changed in a way their wouldnt be a cooldown on such little added damage maybe one big burst instead? his old backstab was wayyyyyy more damage and IMO what made Shaco SOMEWHAT viable.
his new Q....... went from 3.5 invisability to 1.5 and scaling. sure, thats fine. but it used to get up to plus 250% damage now it gets to like 120 flat damage scaling with AP mostly? if you want to make Shaco hybrid, that is a great IDEA IMO but you need to add better choices for hybrid items, because we are at this awkward stage of making our build like, gunblade, mobis, lichbane, IE, jungle item, then choose what pen you want and they can build against it to make you utterly useless.
new W, love it.
new E, little shy on damage but i like it.
new ulti, very awesome mechanic with boxes.
all in all, on paper. Shaco was getting a stronger late game, but I dont see it, nor does any other Shaco player. His early game is near unplayable, leaving you to farm jungle camps until mid/late game. whereas any other assassin, or jungler for that matter with the exception of fiddles has a way better early game now. So this leaves me to my point. what is making us shaco players pick shaco over champions such as Kha'zix, Eve, or rengar. they all have a better early/mid/late game and are all arguably way easier to play then shaco. Shaco did have a very strong early game, i agree. but now he doesnt have any point of being strong at all, he is completely useless early/mid/late. i used to be top damage on my team most games now im barely out damaging the support.
to conclude, it seems you guys may have unintentionally ruined shaco, i see what you were trying to do to his early game, but now he doesnt have any strengths other then a blink that lasts 1.5 seconds. how come at level 11 khazix can hop around and murder an entire team, and you call that balanced but shacos q is on a 11 second CD scaling down to 7 if you auto someone at level 18. there are extreme balancing issues that need to be figured out before season 7 and im just trying to help bring this one specifically to light. i could get into vivid detail about how olaf, lee, udyr, and hec can build full tank and burst harder then shaco but i think you guys know that already.
thanks for reading!