Shaco needs changes. Hes behind the times and just... not fun.
Unless youre an AD assassin jungle main, in which case shaco is fun because of how easily he can dive.
The major problems with shaco are his status as a pigeonholed champion - riot decided he can ONLY do one thing, so only one thing he does. Its wrong, its boring, and its limiting. The reason why shaco cant be buffed as is, however, is because his boxes are some of the most obnoxious traps in the game right now. Below, im going to outline a few suggestions to alleviate the pressure his boxes create and bring some power back into his AP build (that isnt based around those stupid boxes, riot).
Passive; Lurking madness When out of vision of enemies shaco becomes concealed. While concealed, shacos next shiv attack (his basic attack or his E) critically strikes for 150% damage (affected by critical strike multipliers). Concealed is removed by wards and towers.
Q: While invisble under the effects of his Q, shaco is concealed regardless of enemy vision.
W: Now explodes when triggered, instead of attacking things in range. Traps last 60/90/120/150/180 seconds before dying out, and slow 25/30/35/40/45% for 1 second when triggered. Base damage increased to 50/100/150/200/250+0.5AP+0.3bAD.
E: Base damage increased to 80/140/180/220/260+0.5bAD+0.8AP and cast range is increased to 650.
Edit; I forgot to mention that the E damage should be adaptive, allowing it to be effective on all builds.
, but in most cases its just a last hitting thing..
The changes proposed modernize shacos current passive in an interesting way that benefits both AP and AD playstyles. The W changes are the most important of the bunch, though, as riots vision of "AP shaco" is actually "i place boxes like teemo!" which is absolutely boring. His AP playstyle being mind games and poke is bar none the healthiest version of AP shaco theres been.
Pre-rework, i used to have a lot of fun playing shaco support and just pelting my enemies with my well-scaling Es... then Qing into the bush to all in with my ult. Or double juke by doing the wukong play.