Shaco fix/revert/rework idc just do something {RIOT}
Have you ever looked at Shaco lately {RIOT}. Like really looked into him. Compare him to every other assassin. Looked at his stats or his base damage. What about holding an unbiased to all champs. Looked at builds, who plays him, and everything else under the sun. You'll notice a change where his gameplay dropped off.
compared to any assassin in the game his damage lacks numbers. Ability wise his damage is far worse then any other assassin. Q. DECEIVE 10/20/30/40/50 40% bonus attack damage, 30% ability power W. JACK IN THE BOX 25/50/65/80/90 20% ability power E. TWO-SHIV POISON 55/80/105/130/155 100% bonus attack damage, 75% ability power R. HALLUCINATE [base explosion] 200/300/400 100% ability power [mini box] 25/50/75 15% ability power
So ganking level 3 your q,w,e you will get around 90 damage or 115 damage if your box hits 2 times. Considering auto attacks you might get 200 damage. [keep this in mind] Look at other level 3 champions.
Lee Sin - Q 50 on hit and 50-100 on reactivate, W is a shield 0 damage, E 80 damage. 180-230 damage w/o auto attacks. Amumu - Q 80, W 10 with 1% health, E 75 damage. 165 damage w/o % health or auto attacks . Cho'Gath - Q 80, W 75, E 30. 185 damage with abilities and 1 auto attack. Nautilus - Q 80, W 30, E 55. 165 damage with abilities and 1 auto attack. Kha'Zix - Q 50-100, W 85, E 65. 200-250 damage with abilities. Rengar - Q 30, W 50, E 55. 135 damage with abilities and w/o auto attacks. Leona - Q 10, W 60, E 60. 130 damage with base ability damage.
As you can see even a different variety of champs do way more damage just base damage wise. Sad when supports do more damage. and that's not even going into ability scaling or levels that is just base damage.
You can also see that some champs get more love then other just by getting buffed to see more play in higher elo or in pro play. Reason why you won't see shaco played much unless it is a champion that they main. Because Shaco has such low damage if he falls slightly behind he can't buy damage to help out and can become useless. In jungle his clear is ok his ganking kinda is bad since his deceive is just a gap closer not a better positioning. To gank better he has to lower his damage output to compensate to his "rework aka his nerf". The other point to baised Shaco got nerfed because his would insta kill people out on invisibility which is the job of assassins and then later down the road of patches rengar gets buffed for not being able to. most champions have different build paths for their champion but shaco needs items like sheen and duskblade to make up for his damage unless he is AP Shaco then he has to bait people into his box due to not having any damage to poke or fight people.
tanks should be tanky and tank and soak damage. mages should be mages and have high burst damage, assassins should be assassins and kill their squishy target. adc should adc and have high consistent damage, and support should be able to support. but also items should not make champions that use them get nerfed.
I saw some posts about this issue but i also see no reply from riot whether it's in the post or changes through the patches. Most of those posts are either to old or not alot of detail into why the changes should be made. so let's come together to get changes to our champions.