Isn't Shaco a bit too strong atm?

Scazie·8/31/2016, 11:41:50 AM·2 votes·761 views

I've observed this on multiple accounts and when spectating several games, a Shaco will have a very meh, un-impactful early, he won't do anything impressive, won't get a strong snowball going, nor will he exert all that mcuh pressure. Maybe he early ganks a lane or two, but that's it. He just farms, and not especially fast at that, just typical farming speed that most decent junglers can achieve. (Aka, for all intents and purposes this Shaco has done bad, and if it were Season 4/5 he'd most likely lose unless his team carried him) Then he gets his warriors, statick and Tiamat or maybe Titanic Hydra depending on what he did, at about 25-35 minutes and wham, suddenly he has a presence and is being an outright nuisance to deal with and completely comes back into the game as if he's idk, some kind of mid-lategame jungler as if he's like pre-nerf Kha or something. Isn't that a bit ridiculous? I thought Shaco was meant to be a champion that had to get ahead early, had to exert a lot of pressure, and absolutely had to end the game early or else he'd fall off a cliff. (Which imo was what justified his annoyingly frustrating kit, that if he didn't do well early it'd be like playing a 5v4) However now it seems like a lot of Shaco's done have to do that as they instead seem to be scaling pretty damn hard into lategame even without a signifcant snowball.

Sorry if I've missed something, but isn't it wrong for a champion that has the ability to absolutely demolish the early game to also have the ability to scale well into mid-late.

I mean you can check on Champion.gg, similar early game high pressure champions such as Nidalee and Lee Sin all have massively sub-50% winrates at 40+ minutes, whereas Shaco's is like 51%.

8 Comments

Weathered8/31/2016, 11:48:24 AM1 votes

Shaco hasn't changed majorly in like 2 seasons, and has been acknowledged as a very balanced assassin.

Kinetika8/31/2016, 11:50:56 AM1 votes

He's a feast or famine assassin...fairly balanced, but if played properly can wreak havoc. That's exactly his purpose though, and if you haven't seen a game where the Shaco didn't get fed, it's because that game was FF at 20.

I eat ass so hmu8/31/2016, 11:51:20 AM1 votes

Can't really say to much. He hasn't been nerfed, nor buffed in like... 2 seasons I think lol. Besides the picture change on his abilities that's all he ever received lol XD. Honestly he's a meh champ. If he doesn't get fed early game, he's not so useful in the late game.

ChickenWrap8/31/2016, 6:18:31 PM1 votes

The joke's on you. Shaco has always had an amazing late-game. That's one of the places he shines as an assassin. His early-game these days is lacklustre though, that's why Shaco's don't gank a whole lot these days. If you're not doing a lot of damage and the lane you're ganking has no CC, then you're probably not getting a kill.

Shaco is a little weak in comparison to other assassins right now, though. He's leaning a little on the weaker side of things and that's too bad.

MissingKayo8/31/2016, 7:55:26 PM1 votes

pffffffffft