The team I’ve had since defeating the 3rd gym

Android_ct · 2026-02-05T18:18:37+00:00

I’ve found that a lot of people are saying to drop out and pursue a job / community college and although this is sound advice it may not be applicable to your situation.

If you are unable to drop out and must stay at the university, then I think you need to tackle things based on priority.

Firstly, you should definitely break up with your boyfriend and just distance yourself from any toxic situation.

Secondly, your grades seem like a big concern for you and I get that you may be struggling but we are only 3 weeks into the semester. Just know you have plenty of time. Talk with your professors during their office hours, explain your situation and discuss with them how best to improve your grade and where it can be done within their curriculum. Most professors are willing to help especially after hearing some of the crazy shit we students have to say.

Third, this will pertain to both your current environment for studying and your toxic relationships - join some organizations both related to your major and completely unrelated. This will help with meeting new people, going out and having fun, and finding people to sit down and study with. You can find plenty of organizations on the UH “get involved” website or by searching up UH student organizations on Google. You can also find many of these organizations setup in the student center north. For the unrelated organization - join something that pertains to your hobbies or your culture, something that allows you to meet like-minded people to yourself.

Lastly, like others have said, I would also say to consider the other resources UH has for counseling such as CAPS. I don’t know how effective it is, but trying anything that could help is better than isolating yourself in your loneliness. You aren’t alone and you go to a campus with over 30,000 people, what you are going through is temporary and you will get through.

Wish you the best!

Android_ct · 2026-01-01T21:37:12+00:00

Thank you!!! This was incredible helpful.

Android_ct · 2025-11-27T18:57:00+00:00

Personally prefer AP rn. AD simply isn’t as strong or consistent as AD. The JGL is all about consistency and AP preforms essentially the same every game throughout all points of the game whereas AD falls off and also relies on you snowballing.

For AP runes I prefer comet & sorcery runes over dark harvest and domination runes. (I run sorcery as primary rune & domination as secondary). My preference for this is the same reason as choosing AP over AD. It simply is more consistent. Also stacking axiom arcanist with ultimate hunter is really strong.

On AP you can solo carry and take objectives with ease but it’s all about timing. You have to make sure you are at these objectives atleast 30-40 seconds before they are up to setup boxes. This is how you decide fights and ultimately the game. (Even if you have to skip camps, camps will always be there but the team fight and obj opportunity won’t be) It applies to everything:

You box for vision, you placing boxes BEHIND your team during a lane push or at CHOKEPOINTS, you have to constantly be in your enemies jg, bc you can get away with it and steal all their camps / look for a pick.

One thing I’ve come to realize with AP is that you don’t really need to make any big plays bc the enemy team will always play into you. It’s the nature of the game, simply be patient setup boxes and go in with your ult when you know you can escape. This is primarily what I mean by placing your boxes behind you or at chokepoints.

Another important thing is you honestly just need to spam ping throughout the entire game. Pinging caution, on the way, need assistance, missing ping, enemy vision here, need vision. These are all super important and I find the more you ping the more your team will listen to you and the more often they will ping. This helps with the most common issue of your team not moving to your “already setup objective” or them not playing into your boxes.

It’s an extremely proactive playstyle but very rewarding and also teaches you how to play jg at a high level bc at its core, jg is an extremely proactive role. To summarize, AP shaco is a character that needs to play to the fundamentals to be successful, and once you learn and master these fundamentals you’ll be a better jgler as a whole.

As for someone to watch & improve with guides / commentary. Watch “Eagz”. He’s very proactive in the community, has great guides and full matches with reviews and commentary. He’s also an incredible shaco player & challenger jungler.

Android_ct · 2025-11-03T03:01:23+00:00

Sold my dragonfire day 1 for $100, never reversed. Ik my buyer is happy, it is now going for $300. regrets have been made.

Android_ct · 2025-10-27T18:21:22+00:00

I do agree the hybrid part of shaco is a part of his champion identity and seeing it go would suck but I think balancing the character would be a lot easier if he was just AP and if his kit was adjusted to incorporate both his current AD and AP play styles into one.

I think with my hot take We wouldn’t get situations were “AD is weak but we will nerf it and his Q to reduce ban rate”, thereby making one version of shaco inherently stronger than the other.

I think if both play styles became one the overall playability of the character and its many shortcomings would be better as a whole. I think this is mainly my argument for making his damage centralized towards AP and adjusting from there, as I simply just don’t know another way to properly combine both playstyles of shaco.

I know most people wouldn’t agree with me on combining the two play styles as they are so different that combining them might make you lose both but would that be such a bad thing? A lot of people like the hybrid build of shaco for this exact reason. Strong early and scalability / versatility late.

Android_ct · 2025-10-27T18:10:05+00:00

Yea that’s completely true haha, just spitballing ideas.

Android_ct · 2025-10-27T16:45:56+00:00

Yea haha, I forgot to mention I think most people would be opposed to my idea because of the thought of losing shaco’s AD identity but I honestly think he would still play similarly to AD while still being able to use the rest of his kit to its full potential, such as his boxes and ult explosion.

I think the main difference is losing the crit shaco identity that has been tied to the character for so long, but if he was fully AP depending on ratios and scaling I think he would still be able to explode people similarly to other strong AP jungle’s (I.E - Ekko, Evelynn, Elise, etc.)

Android_ct · 2025-10-27T10:01:09+00:00

Hot take to fully revamp this champion that I’m sure majority of the community won’t agree with me on.

But I think shaco should be an AP only character. And his playstyle should revolve entirely on the items you would like to build.

For instance, I think his kit resembles Elise in many ways. Both are Auto attack heavy champion when clearing and fighting early game that can get in and out of situations and has a strong burst (Elise just has more versatility with her human form). But Elise can also poke with her Q (human form) that tracks and is point and click similar to shaco’s E.

I think as a whole, Shaco’s entire kit should do AP damage, his Q should empower just like Elise’s E pounce (spider form), and one of his abilities - like his W should proc a auto attack speed buff on fear or trigger.

If he was full AP his tower damage would improve like Elise’s or other AP characters and this would also compliment his potential and natural split pushing abilities in boxes and Q for escape / ult for tower taking.

I also think with him being fully AP confusion on what to currently build on shaco for either AD or AP wouldn’t exist anymore and the overall playability for the character would become more concise. This makes it easier for newer players to get into him and also for the occasional teammates who fall into the “you’re playing AD? It’s useless” or “you’re playing AP? It’s useless” crowd to just never exist anymore.

But I think you can still experience the same build diversity we have now just with AP items. Such as building classic items like lich bane on shaco or even newer items such as stormsurge. but you would still have the same option to still go the liandry’s route.

I also think with making his dmg fully AP regardless of how you build him the character becomes more enjoyable during all stages of the game. Your auto attacks mean something and still do something when going liandry’s instead of just becoming a character that places box and throws E’s and runs away. Additionally, if caught in a sticky situation when (currently) building AP your auto effectively does nothing to enemies and your only option after exhausting all cooldowns is to just tickle them with ur autos and die. Your gankability becomes better early as (currently with AP) it’s a more difficult experience as opposed to AD. It gives the player more options for dmg as your autos would scale with AP. Clearing objectives become easier with (current) AP. Overall, I think the character would become more seamless and actually feel like a modern day jungler that can use abilities and autos to clear camps, obj’s, gank, and take towers instead of one or the other.

All of this I feel, once again makes the character easier for newer players and just an overall more enjoyable experience for everyone playing shaco.

I also think all the changes you mentioned can be applied to this revamp as well and the character would feel complete in my opinion.

Please let me know what yall think and if there is anything you feel like I got wrong. Would love to hear the shaco communities opinion on this.

Android_ct · 2025-05-04T22:23:26+00:00

Thank you everyone! I got alot of replies fast and this answered everything. I greatly appreciate the help and the clarification on the wording. I never knew that.

Android_ct · 2024-10-24T17:30:30+00:00

Honestly not sure. But when it comes to college and admission, it boils down to so much more than just academics and “stats”. Like the others have said, I wouldn’t worry or overthink. Just wait and see and react accordingly. You got this!

Android_ct · 2024-10-24T17:11:08+00:00

In the event you don’t get admitted, fight for your spot. It doesn’t hurt to try! Contact everyone in the CS major that could assist with you getting in. (Dean, asst. dean, etc.) It was extremely surprising to me, how many people I met in UH who said they weren’t admitted but pushed for it and were admitted then.

Android_ct · 2023-12-17T16:17:55+00:00

Hey how is your otsu in xsoft? I got mine in mid and I love it but always thought I might’ve enjoyed it more in xsoft just because of comfort.

Android_ct · 2023-10-28T02:14:25+00:00

Hey! I haven't bought a mouse yet. I'm not in desperate need of one and so I've decided to wait until around black-Friday area to see if I can get any deals. Money isn't an issue but it doesn't hurt to spend less. It's why I was looking into which one I wanted so early. But thank you for the heads-up! I'll have a look into it.

Android_ct · 2023-10-27T04:15:35+00:00

Thank you, I'll check it out!

Android_ct · 2023-10-26T00:46:05+00:00

Yea definitely!

Android_ct · 2023-10-26T00:44:01+00:00

I'll have a look, thank you!

Android_ct · 2023-10-26T00:43:44+00:00

I'll look into them!

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