Old school Shaco player, who wishes mark yetter would read this.

Shaco old school style. Name in game Howdoyoupurr Smurf mynameispurr This is me writing to mark yetter on his Twitter. I am also posting this on my Facebook. Kenneth Owen Dunn. Do I care who sees my real name. In either service. Who am I. I am a moba lover who completely quit league of legends when league of legends destroyed Their own game when removed the rune system. And then. My favorited. Champion shaco’s balance. They destroyed their own game when you took out the rune system from the game.The smartest thing riot could do is to put it BACK.

When they created. The new. Rune system. I lost over 300 runes and. The fact I lost them all. When you could only use in game money to buy champions. Causes me to buy all of the champions with real money. I mainly bought many of them so that I could beat the champions I needed to learn to play against, and needed to know their mechanics. To be able to win your lane.

The game was great. Didn’t care spending 10 to 50 bucks every paycheck. I spent 1755 canadian on your game, that’s right over a grand, and I was happy to give you my money every 2 weeks. Was about 6 months to a year I had every champion in the game before the rune rework when riot destroyed the funnest part about its own game. and was at the point where I could buy every champion as it came out, that I completely quit. I had no longer needing to spend money on it but was still happy to buy skins. Because I had every major and minor rune set that actually mattered in the game, over 50% of them.

The way to play him. The ultimate way to play him was this. Bruiser tank.

9 red attack damage runes 9 yellow flat health runes. 9 blue flat armour runes 3 attack speed. What this did is allows you to play Shaco as then ultimate bully. You bought machete and a rejuvenation bead. And with the ability to customize champions however you wanted. With runes. You could use Shaco to play every role in the. Game. You had multiple ways to play him. that you could choose. You could even with multiple runes in. The left most tree. Change your. Playstyle. From damage to. Bruiser to full on. Tank. Just with ingame items. And could even in an emergency. Switch from tank bruiser to carry bruiser. If you had weak carries in mid or bot lane. The reason this worked. Was because. Of. Being able to add health and armour to. The champion. With runes. Even if you picked the standard runes which was at the time Attack damage reds. Flat armour yellows scaling magic resist runes. Instead of flat. Because you were preparing for the mid game. By level 9 your scaling mr blues had the same bonus as the flat mr runes. We kept our machetes and built Tiamat for clearspeed. Then build towards one larmour item. At least a 300 armour starting towards randuins omen then towards hex drinker if we needed to do a little more damage but most. Of. The time a spirit visage. If you see the Shaco montage that shaclone gave you near the end lists a challenger player and how he played him. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyb5Ecbxlhw He is using this build. With the standard ruins I listed above. Or my more specialized rune page. Which I am Not sure but I was friends for quite a few of the top shaclone players around the world, streamers you tubers. Shaclone actually added me onto his Skype. Reason because my stuff. I have always had the mindset of a teacher. And I asked and received tons of info neck I promoted this build and other builds in twitch. Anyways. Things that. Lead to Shaco dying.

The assassin update on Shaco. Lethality changes. Forces shacos defence ability to become too lean by 10 to 15% of his total health. Losing his ability to take 1 to 2 more hits. Which stopped you from To make shacos health and armour stats. Being to lean. Then the day when Shaco became half died

The Shaco rework. Shaco passive can now only work once. With a insane ass cooldown. This tried to stop one build. That became god like. Which was the assassin lethality rework. Becoming 20-25% to much damage against carries. This instantly destroyed ad Shaco and support ap Shaco. Bruiser builds. Shaco boxes. Destroying my crowd control. When Shaco boxes change from health to taking so many hits. Then putting that ability on my clone. And then taking away my damage. We ended up Losing the ability to play against other tanks. And replacing it with any attack speed build can destroy the box faster then a fart, We lost the ability to lock up the front line of tanks and bruisers who had not built high damage. Yes the adc could walk up and hit it to take it down. But it created a danger. That now I could if needed switch to ghost from flash. And make it so I can get within range of them. If they tried to stop me from being able to zone the tanks so my team can flank. The back line with significant risk. We also ended up losing our ability to zone mages properly. And also made the ultimate a higher risk reward. Shivers. Was horrible.

The dagger throw. Changing it to ad from ap damage. As well as the change that made Shaco clearing a lot easier. Which was the passive. Rework on how my e effected jungle creatures. We Shaco players. Lost the ability to play ap Shaco jungle if we needed to do so because we ended up having a tank top and ad mid and bot. Forcing many players to have to change from playing Shaco in those games. We no longer can do on hit magic damage so we got a burst. Then became completely useless for the length of our q cooldown. Because could not chase at all. We could not dive in and come in as damage. We can’t get into range. And forced out of team fights completely. Forcing your own team to play 4 v 5 every single game against any gold ranked team or higher, Was completely disgusting, even tho Your base ad even tho high. With all damage ap. And that horrible horrible horrible. New Shaco passive. Shaco lost its fun high risk high reward gameplay.

Last the ultimate change from width of character. Decent damage. To the present system of the three boxes. We lost a scalpel and gained a rusty cheese grater. Teams could counter us. By spreading their 2 front line so could only hit one side of the enemy team comp. or lock up both if they positioned badly. Allowing us Shaco players. To be easily countered. If the enemy team spread out. Could completely block. Your own team from being able to start a flank. Up one side or the other. And was dependant on how good my positioning was when ult goes off. To if we lost an initiation. Against an enemy team or not. We could play with our own teams tank cc. To lock someone down hard. Or defend a wide area. We also had one more thing. Our ultimate gained our defence stats. As well as our e passive slow. This allowed us Shaco players. To play tank when we needed to do so. Shaco always the most fun as a carry. Could build to hard counter part or all of the enemy team.

Riots vision changes. Before we could use vision. In the form of 2 wards and our boxes. To gain vision on one half of the map. You need vision on 3 places to control a jungle in league of legend. Or also 3 to control one half of a river. Two beaches as well as one more vision spot to ward mid lane. To be able to protect ones own team from invasions. For, the enemy jungle. Or to watch against an enemy jungler coming to your team. Good jungler s could guess which side the enemy jungler was coming from and ward against it. From the enemy jungler coming at your laners. But doesn’t stop certain jungler from being able to sneak around your wards to invade your own jungle at the same time. So you had to guess what the Enemy jungler was going to do. This made Shaco an ideal jungle raider. Something that was lost from these vision changes. And didn’t effect only junglers. But one of the ways you could build Shaco was as a utility jungler. It cost us an item. But it allowed us to cover for ones own teams support. When you were playing with lower skilled supports. Who didn’t ward properly. As well as your mid and top laners which happened a heck of a lot. Heck I had one game where I played adc playing sivir. And we won the entire game. Mainly because I sacrificed 3 waves of minions to be able to put a permanent ward behind the enemy teams wolf camp. Protecting my mid laner. I ended up breaking even. And just slightly losing against my enemy adc playing against me. Usingg a hard ad build instead of the crit build that everyone was building. Used that example to show just how important that ward change. Effected the game in an insanely massive way.

The mastery and rune system revamp. With the complete interface rework. Destroying the rune system. Yes it took almost a year for a free to play player to create a game where they could finally play ranked. But it created people to have the most freedom in any moba game past or since. It also forced people to pay money to you if they didn’t want to wait two years to be able to compete at the gold level. With a specialized champion pool for each role. You riot also had another problem. Heroes of the storm which was easy to instantly get into. So to get a piece of that pie. Which was a lot of potential money. You had to change the mastery system to stay competitive. But taking away the rune system. Also destroyed the champs customization of just over 1/3rd of your champions you could play. As well as destroying the ability to play hybrid builds. And experiment with builds. Yes I know the true hybrid champions were only actually less then 1/8th for the true hybrid champions and around 1/5th for the semi hybrids.

I like to be able to protect people. As Shaco and still stay relevant. And not completely useless. Which is what happened to the champion. Outside of the pure assassin hard damage/attack speed builds. Shaco should be able to solo baron. At full build. But only at full build. I don’t need to explain the playstyle of this build. Likely too you. Because I am sure you can look back and find videos of how we used to be able to do it when we played glass cannon Shaco.

My other favourite champion that riot completely destroyed. Is malzahar. When you changed the champion so that it summons his voidlings with w and not from his passive. Lost the ability to play ad malzahar jungle. Shaco turned dead. What riot did to malzahar made malzahar jungle. To be impossible. Ad malzahar jungle. So much fun. Heck I wish . Could go back in time. And make it so riot never did that rune change. I would never have stopped playing league.

Anyways. My vision of myself as Shaco. Is the assassin that protects the king. He is a jester. In public. But when it is time to protect his kingdom he grabs his knife and stands up to the plate. Using his armour and magic resist to stand as the guardian of my jungle. And tricks to make it so that to try to go after my team mates. You must be cautious. For I await in the dark. Pure damage build Shaco is nice. But a true assassin. Not only goes and kills his kingdoms enemies. He stands in front of them to protect them from a fatal wound. That is the Shaco that I was able to play. Tank/bruiser is impossible to play or it was at least the last time I did. Which was basically years ago. I come back to the game. Every 6 months to a year or so. Try to play league my way. As I used to be able to do. And can’t use runes. To adjust my play style. And just turn around and walk away again. Sad that my favourite game of all time, died.

Praying for years. That someone such as you might actually pay attention to us Shaco players for once. And fix Shaco by reverting him completely back to now us used to be the rework and the change in the rune system completely destroyed league of legends for people like me. Forever. I am sure quite a few people like me had the same thing happen. No moba could cover the freedom we once had in league of legends. So could only turn to the only games that kind of came close. But in a different genre. Which is the game overwatch. Which requires a second skill set on top of ones moba team fighting skills. So ya all of your lost player base. Is now in those two games to cure their moba itch. Overwatch and heroes of the storm. Riot you had something great. And we’re afraid of losing out on new fresh blood. and ended up losing what you had. As well as not having anything unique about you. To cause high skill demanding players such as my self. A place to call home.