Talk:Shaco/@comment-26463295-20150610203433/@comment-8267817-20150819062032

Giant orange puff of smoke is a thing that lets you know if he is nearby, it is visible through fog of war on 3 out of 4 abilities I'm pretty sure, not 100% sure about the boxes though. You could also ward somewhere that isn't the bushes leading to the river because no Shaco worth anything is going to gank from there. It's way too obvious for someone so reliant on trickery and not just raw damage and get out of jail free cards like all the assassins that are actually popular like Zed, Katarina, LeBlanc, Talon, Fizz, etc.

The exclamation mark for Rengar is because he can leap half a lane to reach you out of stealth, Shaco's stealth is far different and only has any movement benefit in the first split second, unlike Rengar who gets movement speed the ENTIRE duration of his ult and then the bonus leap range as well as true sight and resource generation. Shaco gets... a crit... that deals less damage than a normal crit until 4th rank when it breaks even and nobody maxes Q first, very few max it second. Rengar is probably the closest assassin to Shaco in the fact that once he is in there is no out unless you let him out, but unlike Rengar, Shaco doesn't have the raw damage, tank stats from W, reliable CC, attack speed increase, auto attack resets, or healing to stay in a fight continuously.

Tl;Dr Shaco is way less toxic to the game than Rengar was before his ult got the exclamation mark, and Rengar STILL is more toxic with it. People need to stop raging at Shaco for being so OP, or anti-fun, or whatever and actually learn how to play against one considering Shaco has basically 0 redeeming qualities compared to any other assassin in the game except he is fun to play while the others are arguably not, and nobody really knows what to do against a Shaco because he hasn't been truly popular in about 3 years.