User blog comment:Deshiba/No counterplay/@comment-4290320-20140519062108/@comment-4022742-20140520204832

There's a difference between the type of utility. Shaco's utility is a delayed fear and a jump that makes him invisible. That falls off late game. The 2 gap closers, 1 with % scaling damage and the 1 that gives him defenses on top of his long range displacement ultimate, these are the type of utility that is strong at any point of the game.

There are a lot of champions whose DAMAGE fall off late game, doesn't mean that their usefulness to the team falls off at the same rate. It just means that their function and role changes in the late game.