User blog comment:LivesByProxy/Shaco - Champion Update - Season 6/@comment-5077844-20150725075132/@comment-26815373-20150725194806

Thanks for the feedback. I plan on elaborating on some of these ideas at a later time, but I will briefly explain:

I don't think Shaco should be an assassin in the same way that LeBlanc, Talon, Rengar, Kha'Zix are - Shaco isn't (or shouldn't be) about raw burst. Rather, he is an assassin in the sense that he can sneak up and catch you unaware (arguably) better than any other champion. He can pick off fleeing low health targets and stragglers as well as any of the other assassins - usually after a teamfight or skirmish has occured. It also keeps his relatively strong early game in the jungle. Ganking a half-health enemy mid-laner should proc his stun for an easy kill.

The passive also allows him to 'secure' kills for the carry. Imagine everyone grouping for a 5v5 teamfight. Shaco, with his boxes, has amazing reactive disengage potential. Any of the traditional assassins that dive your back line (you and your carry) will find themselves cc'ed - and laughing - to death. I like to think of him as an anti-assassin assassin in the same way that Kassadin is an anti-mage assassin.

He can proc his Q himself (I wouldn't want the neuter AD jungle Shaco) but playing him as a support means you no longer have to build Infinity Edge - your carry will do that for you. The damage mod also stacks with I.E. and scales off of their AD letting your carry crit for tons of damage.

Boxes function slightly differenlty (delayed spring rather than the immediate unstoppable low-counterplay fear) but their damage was only slightly buffed by +5% AP. The delayed spring also lets you plan ahead and act according. Did a wandering enemy team just walk into an illuminati box configuration? Perfect time for your team to start a fight.

I imagine his jungle will suffer slightly due to box and E changes, but his passive should compensate as it gives him great ganking potential.

I wanted to keep the feel of his ultimate being the same, while making it less obvious which Shaco is the real one. I also wanted to differentiate his clone from the others in the game by making it noticably stronger. While Hallucinating there are effectively two Shacos.