It's Official, Riot has made Shaco an AP champ.

Sherlock Clones·11/19/2016, 2:59:41 PM·81 votes·5,608 views

Shaco's highest winrate build is now AP. Was this your intention riot? Shaco can longer build AD because the damage is nonexistent. Don't understand why you would nerf one of the few champs who could build, ap, ad, hybrid and brusier and now just make him only be able to build one way. We still have not heard a response from any riot member about shaco. His winrate is about the same as last patch and the only people winning with him are those who have 150+ games with him. It is extremely frustrating you have changed my Main and favorite champ this dramatically and have gotten no response.

96 Comments

Ulquiorra99511/19/2016, 4:27:57 PM38 votes

I don't get it why AD Shaco's passive had to be turned into a liability. Apparently Shaco rewarded with an actually empowered crit for proper positioning is toxic, meanwhiile Cait does 50% of your HP from hals a screen away.

inplane11/19/2016, 9:15:41 PM17 votes

I'm still laughing at that Q nerf. What were they smoking when they decided that 1.5s of invisibility at rank one Q is a good idea?

Vistha11/19/2016, 8:11:35 PM7 votes

KogMaw sends his regards.

Sherlock Clones11/19/2016, 3:30:55 PM7 votes

Yea i saw it. I think he is just trying to find something that works. He bashes riot on the shaco rework every stream lol

Xilixer11/19/2016, 5:28:35 PM6 votes

welcome to the club of ruined mains. i used to main malzahar but they changed him from a burst to a weird dot mage that does no damage outside of voidlings.

BatchBustsMeta11/19/2016, 8:51:57 PM4 votes

Fun fact, from my understanding he was released as a midlaner. So always intended to be an ap champ.

Beacon Academy11/19/2016, 11:55:17 PM4 votes

Malzahar Ayyy Welcome to the club!

Sherlock Clones11/19/2016, 9:10:17 PM3 votes

Wouldn't it be nice though for them to actually respond to all the criticism they are getting over the shaco changes. Not one rioter has responded on any of the threads

JustMonika1311/19/2016, 3:34:56 PM3 votes

Shaco's also up for a VGU soon (aka 2019). So you'd better get used to the feeling.

Eedat11/19/2016, 5:46:14 PM3 votes

KogMaw too

Jesus is Savior11/19/2016, 8:47:14 PM3 votes

On a related note: they did this to Xin Xhao too. Sort of.

You can't build crit on him if you're ahead, because your "guaranteed crit" will always do less damage (resulting in you not killing your target, and dying). So you're forced to always be an on-hit/bruiser.

Mokkun11/21/2016, 7:28:53 PM2 votes

On the one hand, I never ever want to see something with Shaco's kit, popular, ever again. I went through that in early League history. It sucked. A lot.

On the other hand, at least in his previous incarnation, his AP build was actually more annoying to play against, even if technically worse. If the current variant is anything like that... I'd rather see him go back to AD.

Muddafragot11/19/2016, 7:42:22 PM2 votes

Must be karmic retribution for every "THAT FILTHY WHORE!" cried out in response to invasions and camp steals.

Irelia Bot11/19/2016, 11:50:33 PM2 votes

back in my day AP shaco was best shaco build

LostFr0st11/19/2016, 3:28:45 PM2 votes

I'm guessing you already saw Shaclone's tank build? :3

ModAcademy Kayn11/20/2016, 4:02:27 AM2 votes

Ya notice how none of the assassins have gotten any balancing this PBE patch? It's because they're still watching the aftermath and trying to figure out what lies where. Give it time, a majority of assassins are going to be given work.

azrolator11/20/2016, 4:22:58 AM2 votes

I always build him AP so I like the changes.

Karn Bishop11/20/2016, 8:11:38 PM2 votes

Ok this title is very much click baity, his highest build is currently HYBRID so he relies on a mix of both, doesn't seem to change how he plays at all to be honest.

Iźuku Midoriya11/19/2016, 9:24:00 PM1 votes

I understand on some points like the nerfs to Q early but also feel that alot of these changes were just stupid things. His biggest "buff" is you can place boxes in stealth WOW BOXES WHILE INVIS IS really stupid because people know where you are when you do. It kind of feels that they just trashed him and forgot about him like the bug with thunderlords and his passive, the bug with boxes and control wards and everything else that was more or less taken away