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Shaco rework... i will call it now.

ViktoriusIII··4 votes·897 views

Okay... So just before everyone calls me a pleb and wants to shut me up: I am a bad player. I didnt play ranked even though i play since s2 cause i dont like the stress... since s5 i am a Shaco OTP... (thanks to shaclone) and to be honest... I have never had so much fun with a champ. Ive tried them all... but Shaco has a "easy to learn but hard to master" kind of playstyle... but most of this is due to knowledge and less through mechanical skill. "Do i go deeper in their jung with my q to juke them" "do i go in first and let my team hit their stuns or do i wait in the backline for the cleanup?" "do i try to teamfight or just go for the splitpush... and can i fight/get away"

and so on... I REALLY!!! love shaco. His kit feels fluid and through his ult and his Q he has so much playmaker potential (i stole dragon over the pit with my q, while alone and 5 men doing drake, smited the drake and actually used my ult on the wall to get over it) and it feels great to play him.

I know it sucks to play against him... but since the sweeper revealed him basically it was really hard against good players...

NOW!!! The changes will ruin shaco. Shaco relies on one or two nice early ganks to either get ahead or get a lane rolling... taking his early pressure away is like... saying akali can use her jump at lvl 6 only once... you weaken the only significant spike there is. You took down the Q time (okay... you can work around that) but ALSO the dmg it deals... you took away the dps debuff on monsters on the E ... AND you cant use your E as an engage now to slow the enemy, because you have to use it as an execute. ALSO damage down. Your ult drops boxes now... which will die if one dies... and only stay for like 2 sec... so towerdiving with the clone is no different (cause 1 towershot renders the dropped boxes 100% useless) The ONLY buff is, that you can now place the box while invisible... which is... an animation for... 0.3 sec? so you only have 1.2 seconds of stealth at rank 1 Calling this a buff is beeing nice!

So I dont care for the plants... drakes are rng and you simply have to play aroiund it... except for master and challenger everyone who complains has no idea what they are talking about :D but this Shaco update (if not beeing redone or at least buffed Q duration and DMG) WILL!!! ruin AD Shaco Jung. And i call it now: Many jung shacos wont play in S7. This should not be a threat or anything. Just a fact... just watch the Shaclone vid... he basically agrees with me. It SIMPLY DOESNT WORK. You didnt oneshot early anyways (which was the aim of the assasin rework to remove) you only make him harder to play and less rewarding.

But i guess Pinkward will like the Q buff...

Have fun hating me in the comments :D

5 Comments

Emojay1 votes

Shaco AP is making a comeback.... Im genuinely scared... I have always respected a good Shaco. Honestly, if you can play mid games with me, or trick me real good, or pull off some epic plays, then i salute you! UNLEEEEEEES its A-FREAKING-P SHACO!!!!! Not concerned about one or two builds not becoming viable, (Cuz i like movement speed Shaco) but this new build of ap and boxes... uuugh... I dont rlly care about the plants too much. DO they reveal eve?

Emojay1 votes

I main eve! :3

The Yetii Rider1 votes

Shaclone admits in his vid he should have maxed Q. He was maxing the wrong skill, of course he was going to do bad.

Then he's complaining at level 7 about how much damage his rank 1 Q does compared to his normal auto.

I imagine Shaco will get some love to his late game but his early game needs to completely burn with how much they're changing the jungle. Killing red or blue will get you to level 2 by yourself and your laner probably won't leash it since it's a long walk. Live Shaco would Q over the wall, Backstab Smite Steal, then immediately box you and kill you with Ignite. He has to be trash in the early game or he will be overpowered in this jungle.

Spoofghoul1 votes

i mostly play tank shaco cos it is more fun

assaulting an adc with double sunfire, double fervor & double muramana procs to deal 1000 dps not to mention i have 2 thornmails

It is disgusting af but also really funny

You can keep tricking people in fights with boxes invis and clone because you are so tanky you wont drop dead after a missplay but instead look for the opportunity to turn that missplay into a new play through trickery

Only thing i really wish for shaco update myself is the ultimate jitb drop to be better, just 3 separate jitb with longer lifespan and they would individually activate would be nice.

It would cause chaos in teamfights if you trick them into killing your clone instead of you

ViktoriusIII1 votes

Id really like some other inputs... if you may ^^

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