i love the backstory and the model, though i think the colors could be better, but that's just incentive to buy an epic skin for him, id love something along the lines of dark green and dark blue
as for the way he plays, its great, he is a really fun to play assassin character, who has a little bit of everything, but manages to use it all together well
there are few champions in the game i really love playing, and i was hoping and wishing that when Shaco came out he would be one of the ones i did because of how much i love his model and story, and I am very happy that he did come out the way he did
there are some issues with the champion, mainly the scaling of his abilities, like how two-shiv poisons slow and blind scale so little, but the damage is so low early, and his ultimate feels like a little something could be done, but for the first version release of a champion, i feel he is much better than many of the other champions in the game when they were first released