User blog comment:LivesByProxy/A Fool's Hope: The Case For A Support Shaco/@comment-5209879-20180902005731

I'm a Shaco Support Main. I played him one day and LoL totally changed for me. So his rework broke me... the Q Nerf specifically. I depended upon that long invis movement to create distractions for my ADC and so i could poke. Now I just spend all my time praying that these new-meta gap closing tanky assassin types run into a box every now and again.

Regardless, Thank you for getting inside his character. It was wonderful to read someone that GETS IT.

I run the AD/Waveclear route... was never the PinkWard AP Type and that doesn't work for me. I miss stacking boxes, but i really only did it for an easy first blood.

I've scoured the web for concept art of that Pulsefire Shaco.. I've prayed that Partyclown Shaco skin will come out... I spend all of my time hating the skins available to him, as none are appealing, and none are really "me". I do not want the Joker. I want the Enigma.

Reading people's thoughts on Shaco changes... To be honest... they all scare me. I love that he's a niche character. People not seeing him much means they're less likely to inherently know how to outplay me, so I'm still a surprise.

In thinking about things I'd like... - I want the Q timer extended again to it's original duration, from level 1. This lets me get a bit farther from gap closers before they find me to one-shot me, and lets me successfully create distractions ot help my ADC. In jungle, this might make it easier to invade. While it's totally upside, I'm still squishy as hell. I'm not so sure the extended invis would require a speed boost like many suggest.

- Boxes. They die off rather fast, and I can't stack them. So I'd like to stack a few for use.. like Gangplanks barrels or Heimer's turrets. This would let me better set up situations where I can screw with the enemy team instead of having to try and plan 20 seconds in advance.

- I would really like to see more of Shaco's Clone. In fact... I'd love to have his clone live on full time, with it's own death timer. I feel like the AI of the clone (which was once similar to Tibbers) has been adjusted or bugged out in the last few years. It's not as intelligent or predictable, and rarely follows my commands. I often find that when i spawn it and send it to attack the ADC, it attacks a minion or goes where I go. So... I'd like better Clone AI, or more direct control of what to make him do.

- I'd also like the clone to be able to use abilities. Throw down a Jack, throw a shiv. I'm not sure what Q would do... This would make it less obvious which one of us the deception is, as me shivving someone is a dead giveaway. The idea here is that whoever was closer to the target location would do the move. This could lead to the double box placement I described earlier.

-The thing I know will never happen is to have Shaco's clone around full time in a HotS LostVikings style thing. I would love to control 2 lesser champions in this style, supporting both top and bottom. I have some ideas for this, and Shaco would be perfect for the role, giving half normal gold kill for killing one of them. The "whoevers closest" on shiv/box would apply here, and there shoud probably be a "speed buff when moving toward other shaco within certain range". Since R wouldn't be needed, R could take on the form of a seperate Q for the clone, Or maybe something having to do with Left and right Click.

It's just a fantasy though, and a lot of people have strange fantasies that will in no way influence Riot, but god I hope he gets a skin that I actually like at some point...