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League of Legends Jungle Shaco Guide

League of Legends Jungle Shaco Guide by ChineseJester

Note 1: All content in this guide is based on my individual feelings towards the champion and in no way is the ultimate way to play Shaco. Feel free to vary your play style in anyway you feel. Think of this guide more as guidelines for safe Shaco consistency rather than attempting to snowball every game.

Note 2: This is not a guide on jungling, this covers general tips related to Shaco, no where do I talk about rotation, deep warding, tower pushing as they are relative to all junglers and should be found elsewhere. This is a Shaco specific tip guideline on Summoners Rift, not Twisted Treeline, ARAM or Crystal Scar.

Note 3: Every section will be started with a bold title for what that section may cover, for example Note 2 was the title for this section. Following the title the section will talk about why understanding this idea is crucial to understanding Shaco as a champion. Additionally that section may include but are not limited to theory, math, analysis.

Note 4: To those who want to copy paste my stuff and take it as their own, I highly advise against it as I cannot insure your protection when it comes to legal matters. Nonetheless be free to share and quote me just as you would take stuff from other guides. If however you do publish your own material and do not cite this material just be aware of what you’re opening yourself up to. This includes translations.

#0 TABLE OF CONTENTS

#1 Credibility
#2 Preface
#3 Reliability
#4 Assassin Stereotypes
#5 Skillset
#6 Backstab
#7 Q-Deceive
#8 W-Jack in the Box
#9 E-Poisonous Shiv
#10 R-Hallucination/Special-Ult Maxing
#11 Skill Order
#12 When in Solo Queue
#13 Timer and Scaling Comps
#14 Lanes and Team Comps
#15 Split Pushing
#16 Special-Botrk
#17 Tanking
#18 Machete/Long Sword Start
#19 Jungle Item Skip
#20 Theory-Spirit Stone/Madred Only
#21 Jungle Items
#22 CDR Build
#23 Hydra
#24 Hydra vs Botrk Math
#25 Tiamat Cutlass
#26 Youmuu’s vs Statik Math
#27 Guardian Angel
#28 Pots, Wards and Consumables
#29 Mobility and Boots
#30 Special-My Build To Challenger
#31 Prominent Builds
#32 Hail Diamondprox
#33 Runes
#34 Masteries
#35 Summoner Spells
#36 Game Openings/Reacting to Invades
#37 Ganking and Moving Around The Map
#38 The 3 Wraith Trick
#39 Buff Clear Starts
#40 Where Did They Start
#41 Avoiding Invasion Wards
#42 Killing Camps
#43 Filling
#44 Matchup Specifics
#45 Skins
#46 Shoutouts
#47 Common Questions
#48 Social Media

#1 Credibility: My name is Justin Lee and my IGN (in game name) is “Chinese Jester” while my smurf is “Best Shaco”. I play on the NA server and live on the east coast with 130~ping. I began playing towards the end of season 2 and during season 3 I achieved diamond 1 70 LP elo (2700 mmr). Since then I have achieved 600 LP in Challenger playing Shaco exclusively when I can jungle and filling when needing to play other roles or if Shaco is banned.

http://www.twitch.tv/youmatter

http://www.lolking.net/summoner/na/31988221

#2 Preface: The reason this guide is being constructed is because it seems there are many misconceptions about Shaco at every tier of play. Higher tiered players even at challenger do not seem to understand how Shaco operates and there are common ideas at each elo that split pushing and early game is the only way to play Shaco. I am here to debunk those theories and that is the ultimate goal of the guide. However, in accomplishing this task the reader (you) will also learn to play Shaco to understand the different levels he can operate to win a game. I hope you enjoy whatever comes of this guide and take something away (such as learning Shaco) but mostly understand that Shaco may not be top tier, but definitely doesn’t live within the constraints that most people assume he is in.

#3 Reliability: Theres a common idea that only champions played in LCS, LPL, OGN or competitive play can and should be played in solo queue. Adapting this type of mindset will lead you to have an untapped amount of information because you did/didn’t recognize less popular and un-meta champions. The notion that a champion should not be played because its uncommon should not deter you from playing Shaco or any other champion for that matter. (Look at what happened to AP Tryndamere, one person played it and it showed up in LCS cause it was good). I strongly feel that any champion at any ELO can climb to the top. (This section is purely to entertain those that think Shaco or any champion should not be played because of x y and z reason.

Role: In the current meta Shaco is played as a jungler (not top lane, not mid lane, not support and definitely not ADC). This guide will only cover builds and strategies used in my experience of jungling Shaco, any other type of role where you insert Shaco into should not reference this guide as a source.

#4 AD Assassin Stereotypes: Let me begin by talking about the state of AD assassins and how many can categorize Shaco into such a role alongside other melee assassins. The goal of an AD assassin is to delete at least one member of the opposing team (usually a carry such as a mid laner or ADC) to at least trade kills and allow the team to clean up due to trading a burst assassin champion for a consistent dps champion.

Analogy: A larger country, lets say country A must compete against country B (for some apparent reason) however country A has less resources and will lose a war of attrition to country B. Thus, country A must go on the offense to win by striking the heart of country B (lets say their headquarters/nuclear weapons/important area). By doing this country A has a chance to win the war because this will even the playing field for the remainder of the war. However, in doing this maneuver the strike team sent into the heart of country B will fall.

In this analogy take country A as blue team with an AD assassin (lets say Shaco) and lets take country B to be red team. Red team has more consistent dps, (consistent late game ADC, good midlane dps). Therefore, in the scenario Shaco would suicide to assassinate the opposing teams consistent dps because he is inconsistent dps (ie. he can only burst 1 person because he is an AD assassin). So Shaco will trade his life for another and hope his team can win the remaining 4v4.

Misconception: AD assassins must operate in such a “suicide bomber-ish” manner. The notion that the only way a champion can operate is by trading 1 for 1 is preposterous and is the determining factor in the hate for Shaco.

Understanding: The sole reason why Shaco has adopted this misconception is infact due to build path. For example, if Darius has the following 6 items: Triforce, Hydra, Youmuu’s, Black Cleaver, Last Whisper, Mobo Boots, then to teamfight he must in fact dive deep for a valuable target to one shot them and probably will die to the remainder of the enemy team because of his squishy build. If he trades with a front line tank then Darius’s team will probably lose the fight because the tank will out tank Darius’s dps based on how the game operates (tanks beat full dps in 1v1s). Similarly, throughout early history, players would build full burst Shaco and trade 1 for 1 AT BEST where AT WORST the opposing member could flash away or kill Shaco with a pink ward, ultimately making Shaco, what most solo queue players call Shaco “useless”.

Result: Because of these builds that have become popularized since the beginning of League of Legends burst kamikaze Shaco is in 99% of games with Shaco and thus team fighting became extremely hard with this build. Split pushing a lane as Shaco was the easiest way to not die while making use of the full damage build. Players would use the easy escape mechanics that Shaco has with deceive, box placement and ulting to put pressure on the map while still enjoying the full damage build to take down towers and 1v1 enemies.

Conclusion 1: A full burst Shaco, Yasuo, Zed will generally only operate as a suicide bombing trade mechanic in teamfights AT BEST. Additionally, split pushing was used as a popular alternative to team fighting which created a stigma for Shaco. Therefore, to make Shaco more consistent for team fighting, defensive items should be built. (I am not advocating 6 defensive items, I’m just not advocating 6 offensive items).

Conclusion 2: People in solo queue or in life that tell you the following “Shacos bad because x y and z or Shaco can only split late game because so and so.” do not understand this concept and you should be prepared to emotionally encounter these people as well as play your role even though they tell you not to.

#5 Skillset: The following are the skill descriptions based on lol wiki.

http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Shaco

#6 Passive-Backstab: Shaco’s backstab ability allows him to increase dps on monsters, minions and champions if Shaco is attacking them from the back by 20%. To be more detailed, the skill covers 179 degrees of the target being attacked. (180 degrees minus 2 points to create the degrees) (Some of you might say 179.99~ degrees, whatever floats your boat) Let me be more specific.

—-X—- In the image to the left imagine X is any target attempting to be hit by Shaco where the underline represents the direction that target is facing.

a b The horizontal line cutting through the X represents a direct cut through one side of the target and exiting the other side of the target, we will call the left side point a and the right side point b.

If Shaco hits the target in any of the angles between a, the front of the target to b then the target will not take backstab damage. (This is pretty common sense.)

If Shaco hits the target at points a or b then they will not take backstab damage.

If Shaco hits the target from any point above point a and around the top to point b then the target will sustain backstab damage.

Note: If using a hydra, whether the passive or active effects, the game mechanics will determine which is the closest point between you and the target and choose that at the origin for the backstab mechanic (whether there is or is not a backstab). Additionally statik shiv lightning will not proc backstab.

Note 2: Shaco’s clone will also benefit from the backstab passive in the same manner.

Note 3: Shaco’s E, the poisonous shiv also benefits from backstab passive. For example, if the shiv is thrown for 100 damage and hits the targets front then it will only do 100 damage. However, if the shiv hits the targets back then it will do 120 damage. This damage is based on when the shiv lands on the target, not the initial orientation of the target when the shiv was thrown.

#7 Q-Deceive : Deceive’s ability allows Shaco to blink over walls immediately and retain invisibility for 3.5 seconds at all levels. Additionally a “weaker” crit will be placed on Shaco’s next auto attack and will work with Shaco’s backstab passive. The ratios increase with level and the mana cost decreases at 10 mana per level starting at 90 mana. The blink range of Shaco is similar to that of a flash, but as with most spells that blink or shift the range can seem to increase when buffered over a larger wall such as Fiddlesticks Ultimate or Kassadin Ult.

Note: After Shaco Q’s the origin of his Q will leave a puff of smoke regardless of whether or not he was in fog or war or not. This includes all bushes as well as locations visible to the enemy.

Note 2: Shacos skin does determine the color of the puff of smoke. All skins except Masked Shaco including the original Shaco skin will reveal a orange tint of smoke for a second post deceive. The Masked Shaco skin will have half a second of a silver spark blink that covers less space than a puff of smoke. Certain arguments such as “orange is the color of life vests so its noticeable” leaves the Masked Shaco skin with a variable advantage over the other skins. However, I personally find it easier to see a split second silver blink rather than an orange poof. Nonetheless the difference will probably not manifest itself into a significant number in your winrate. (Note the Masked Shaco skin does not do the worm so minus swag points).

Note 3: Shacos Q does proc a crit which makes Statik Shiv a desirable item at times proccing the crit passive on the first hit. The math is simple, if Shaco’s Q will do a 120% crit on the first hit then a Statik Shiv hit will do 120 magic damage from the base 100 damage. Keep in mind the crit percentage increases with level.

Note 4: Shaco can buffer skills at the same time as he Qs to save frames. If Shaco Qs and Ws a location he is within range of at the exact same time both skills will go off then Shaco will have placed his box and retain invisibility for the full duration. This can be done with his E as well. For example, if I were to hover my cursor over an enemy champion and press Q and E over him at the exact same time then the resulting action would be a shiv hitting the intended target as well as Shaco having gone into his stealth. One final note about this skill is that if you ultimate while simultaneously Qing sometimes your ult will not form at the location you blinked to, rather it will appear halfway between the origin of the Q and the new location or even sometimes leaving the clone at the original location. For this reason I highly recommend waiting at least half a second before ulting after you Q.

Note 5: When in stealth Shacos next auto attack will reveal him and bring him out of stealth. However, while in stealth if you buffer cancel an auto, this means to say if you begin an auto attack animation and cancel your auto before it lands, you will still be revealed even though you have not auto’d anything. A common mistake that I too am guilty of is Qing over a wall to attempt to get away and then buffering an auto on a target I did not intend to attack revealing me and losing me my get away.

Note 6: Shaco has a unique cooldown with his Q as it goes on cooldown after Shaco is revealed (not revealed as in being seen but as in being out of stealth). This makes it similar to the original Leblanc W where the 2nd double would need to be used or expired to go on cooldown. However, by using the back animation and pressing b (or whatever you binded it to) then the cooldown will begin. This however will break your stealth and make you visible. A common method used with this is to cover distance (stay with me here). For example if you are attempting to get to top lane from base and want to get there as fast as possible then begin Qing up to top lane and pressing base to put it on cooldown and then repeat as the cooldown comes up. This abuses the blink and uses it to travel distances as it nets more distance than just walking. Keep in mind this is quite a large mana burn and should only be used when having a blue buff or a situation where getting to a location is paramount.

Note 7: If Shaco simultaneously presses Q and B (deceive and base) then Shaco will end up basing in his invisibility (similar to Twitch’s Q and base). This means if the base is an 8 second cooldown (7 with the recall mastery in the utility tree) then 3.5 seconds will be spent in invisibility because of this technique leaving 4.5 seconds or 3.5 seconds of basing while visible.

Note 8: Feel free to juke in a variety of directions, pretend to go over walls but don’t, walk one way and Q another. Additionally when ganking try to stay out of range when you Q even if you are in fog of war because of the puff of smoke. Lastly, be aware of the turret vision range. Turret reveals stealth in a larger radius than the attacks of the tower radius.

#8 W-Jack in the Box: Jack in the box is Shaco’s W which allows him to place down a box that will be visible for 2 seconds before activation, at which time it will either go invisible for 58 seconds until procced or proc immediately causing it to fear the targets within its radius and attack the nearest target in a radius for five autos (assuming it survives). The jack in the box has a 60 second life timer with a 5 second timer as soon as it has been procced and will die more easily when visible compared to being invisible. Additionally it has a 1.0 AP ratio and does magic damage.

Note: Shaco’s jack in the box allows him for an extremely quick clear because it may be stacked before the initial buff spawns causing multiple boxes to hit the buff and decrease its hp quickly. For a general clear, begin stacking boxes at your first buff at 55 seconds and continuously stack boxes until the box spawns. For more in depth descriptions refer to the chapter later that talks about the initial clear.

Note 2: The activation timer is completely different from the invisibility timer. This is to say that if the box has been placed and is 59 seconds into its timer. If it is procced at 60 seconds it will now have a 5 second life timer so in total it will have been on the map for 65 seconds (60 invisible and 5 visible attacking).

Note 3: The box will not prioritize any target regardless of whether or not it is a champion, tower, inhibitor or minion/monster. A few things to note is that the box proc range is relatively high while the attack range is similar. The box will however NOT proc for an inhibitor or the nexus, however if it is first procced by something else such as minions or another champion it may still attack the inhibitor or nexus given that it is the nearest target for the box.

Note 4: The box fear in the recent changes will cause the box to fear the targets from the opposite direction it is from the box. that is to say if a target is at point a and the box is at point b, then it will fear the target back in the direction from b to a (b->a). This makes it optimal to box behind the target when ganking or to force then in a situation where if they walk into the box it will just bring them back to the same original spot the target was in (probably towards you). More will be discussed in the ganking section.

Note 5: Boxes have a small vision radius so they may be used as limited wards that will disappear when activated. Use this to your advantage when in the opposing teams jungle and drop them off in various locations to scout or leave them in the tribushes/river bushes to scout for the jungler when you leave/come.

Note 6: Boxes when visible can be used to block skillshots. This means that for the 2 seconds before the box becomes invisible it can be placed immediately to block things like a Lee Sin Q or a Thresh hook. Note that the box takes about half a second to be put down thus you might have to predict or put it down as they cast the spell (its all about reaction time, although I play on 130 ping so i tend to have to predict).

Note 7: Some helpful tips in terms of the life survivability of the box is that, it will die to one lee sin Q, Thresh Q will not kill the box and will allow Thresh to follow up on his Q and Q to the box. Boxes will die to one tower shot, however this might be enough time to tank 1 shot for your if you put it in tower range before you enter it. For the initial clear of buffs and camps the boxes will take 3 hits to die, however on the second round of buffs it will only take 2. Baron will one shot the box while drag will take 2 shots to kill it. Boxes will die to smite.

Note 8: Versus those annoying Blitzcranks that like to grab your first buffs from you, you can just put a box at 1:54 over the wall where blitz would grab your buff and make him grab the box instead. Im looking at you Darshan.

Note 9: Boxes will not proc on targets it does not have vision on. This comes in two variations. First, if the box if for example outside of a brush, and the enemy champion is next to the brush in range of the box but not visible to it, the box will not proc (a common situation in the banana brush). Second, it will not proc on invisible champions until they become visible. Champions such as Evelynn would just walk through the box as well as Twitch until they become visible and within the box range. Keep in mind however they will not know it would be there unless they become visible or have a pink with them.

Note 10: The boxes give 5 gold to the person that kills them. Just thought you’d want to know the inflation you’re causing.

#9 E-Poisonous Shiv: Shaco’s E is a shiv that is thrown at one individual target causing them to be slowed by an amount based on level for 2 seconds. This increases 5% per level. Additionally, autoing a champion while the spell has not yet been used will cause the afflicted champion the slow as well, this stops after the shiv is thrown at which time auto attacks will no longer slow until the spell is back up. For monsters it will cause a RNG blind on the monsters attack for 2 seconds. The shiv has a 1.0 AD and 1.0 AP ratio and does magic damage.

Note: This is by far the most important rule for Shaco players. When ganking, never NEVER throw the shiv until it guarantees a kill or a summoner spell blown. Always start of the gank autoing them down and throw it at the point where you won’t be able to auto them anymore (when they get away by running or flashing or something). If in your gank you have to start out with a shiv because they are far away then do that.

Note 2: This is more of a preference but an important one. In keybindings there is a hotkey that when held down will only allow you to target champions. I bind this to the space bar but you can/should do it to any key you can hold down while attacking with autos and spells. By holding this down then autoing or throwing your shiv it guarantees it will only hit a champion. Sometimes when the opposing champions are hovered over a creep you might hit that by accident if you don’t use this command.

Note 3: When jungling with blue, its completely fine to throw the shiv instead of getting hp efficiency from the RNG blind passive. However, when low, it might be better to use it as the finisher to the camp and then base. The RNG blind will not affect lane creep, dragon, baron or champions.

Note 4: This is definitely one of the most scaling spells for Shaco as it has a 1.0 ratio for both AD and AP. This means that having high AD and AP ratio items increase the burst damage, although keep in mind it is magic damage so red buff and other AD proccers will not come from it. Items with high AD ratios like Hydra or Last Whisper may come in handy in ratio with this spell as well as an item such as Triforce with 30 AD and 30 AP creating 60 effective damage for the shiv.

#10 R-Hallucination: Shaco’s ultimate is hallucination, a spell that activates after a second where Shaco shakes his body and creates a copy of himself. This copy will die in 18 seconds and do less damage than Shaco through auto attacks onto whoever he is commanded to do it upon. The clone will also take more damage and cannot use spells. When the clone dies or expires he will explode for a 1.0 AP ratio of magic damage.

Note: Shaco’s clone will be severely weaker in terms of auto attack damage and health. It will not take long for someone to identify which one is the real you. If an enemy pings the real Shaco before you ultimate, that ping will stay on your head and the clone will not have the ping making it easy for them to focus you. Additionally the Shaco clone has no items in his inventory so if they click on you they should realize whether or not you have items or not. Lastly, the clone cannot retain any buffs such as red or blue, meaning this is a dead giveaway and you should not attempt to trick them with a buff on. Shaco clones will retain a guardian angel animation even though it won’t go off. Shaco clone cannot have sheen procs but will have on hit effects such as wriggles.

Note 2: Knowing the leash range of your ultimate is important as you don’t want the clone moving to a location and then blinking back to you. Additionally, maybe you do want them to blink back to you depending. Figure out the leash range through practice.

Note 3: The duration of the clone is 18 seconds. If you mentally or even realistically count this timer you can use the full duration of the clone to your advantage and time out the explosion to your benefit.

Note 4: The clone is extremely annoying to control. Control with either alt clicks or pressing R to move it around. However, spam the spell to move the clone around because the AI acts rather poorly. When right clicked on a target it will only follow it within a certain range even if the enemy stays in vision. If vision is lost of the target the clone will begin walking back to you, so making commands into blind brushes is important for not letting your clone walk back like an idiot. You can make the clone leash and tank buffs and objectives such as dragon (like a support leash) as well as tanking turrets.

Note 5: Ultimates can be used to avoid skillshots/damage that comes in the form of burst. Shaco disappears for half a second when he is in his ultimate. This means that skillshots such as hooks and burst damage such as Syndra ultimate/Karthus ultimate can be avoided by timing his ultimate correctly. So if Karthus ultimate will happen in 3 seconds, Shaco should ultimate sometime between 1-.6 seconds remaining to have a dodge. It takes about half a second to go into the invulnerability mode and the stasis mode lasts for about .5 seconds, probably a little less.

Note 6: Shaco ultimate procs madred/wriggles therefore soloing dragon and baron is acceptable with certain builds such as tank/lifesteal builds. In those situations keeping both you and the clone alive will benefit the most in terms of dpsing down the objective.

Note 7: If Shaco ultimates under an enemy turret with nothing else in range of it then the tower will prioritize the closer target of the 2, the original or Shaco clone.

Note 8: If Shaco gains aggro under a turret with his own teams minions under it because he hit somebody under it then the tower will aggro the original Shaco. If he then ultimates then the turret will begin attacking minions because Shaco no longer existed on the map therefore he cannot be prioritized by the tower. If however there was some dot (damage over time) onto the target such as ignite or elder lizard burn the tower will target the original Shaco. Remember you can also dodge the turret shot with your ultimate.

Note 9: You can use your ultimate to push yourself over thin walls sometimes. This is because when Shaco ultimates near a wall, both the original and Shaco clone cannot be in them same space (unit). Therefore one must push the other one aside to create a location for the other. To shove a unit over the wall one must spam the unit that wants to go over in that direction and the other must remain in the original box with spam, this however is unreasonably difficult as you cannot simultaneously click the original spot and the spot over the wall at the same time. Thus, this trick only works sometimes at an unreasonably RNG rate, however does work about 40% of the time. If anyone has ideas about the consistency of this trick please let me know. Keep in mind it is also possible for both to go over the wall as one shoves the other one over but the clone has not yet “spawned” so it spawns with you over the wall.

Special: I do NOT max ultimate on Shaco, moreover I pick up the spell at level 6 and do not get level 11 or 16 ultimate until the latest possible time. The reasoning is two fold. First having the skill in another area such as Q or W will increase the rate of those affected spells. Second, maxing ultimate gains you two things, a slightly lower cooldown of about 10-20 seconds, which in my opinion is not extremely valuable. Additionally, clone explosion damage increases yet this is not a reliable source of damage for AD Shaco. Thus, I do not max ultimate.

#11 Skill Order: Always max E, no question about it. This is your ganking tool as consecutive levels allow you to slow at a greater rate and create more room to kite down the opponents in the lane. One might argue that maxing box may lead to better ganks as a higher duration fear could leave more openings for attacks however this is under the assumption your box goes off. More often than not your box will be avoided by flash or skillshot. Its a throw up on what is second to max so i vary it based on two situations. If you are building for more burst damage you will be maxing Q. This is for Hydra builds and especially Statik Shiv builds as the crit is important to that item. Higher AD ratio items and shiv/ie increase the value of Q maxing. If more defense or botrk is build W is probably better for more utility to kite and control area because of its lowered cooldown as well as escape routes for split pushing. Maxing W helps more in split to increase tower dps and escape while Q max does not give you a higher cd, just more damage and less mana cost.

Note: As stated earlier, backstab scales with Shaco’s shiv, meaning maxing E scales increasingly by 20% if backstabbing.

Note 2: Don’t commit to one max of Q or W. If you started building damage then tanky a little after its perfectly fine to have taken 3 points into Q then start maxing W. Similarly if you pick up a few kills going tanky and decide to pick up an offensive item, 4 in W then Q maxing is fine.

Item Builds based on Team Composition

Because Shaco can operate in many different fashions such as a Split Pusher, Tank or Assassin, it is hard to say what is the correct and necessary to build. Thus, I will narrow it to these four situations and indicate what to look for to determine which category your game falls under. I will then follow with the item builds I find work best for that situation. First, let me state some firm beliefs about what I think should be built in solo queue.

#12 In Solo Queue it is ok to but not necessarily advised that you:

Skip jungle item
Build either elder/golem or wriggles (will discuss)
Not build aoe items such as aegis/frozen heart when grouping
Build full damage
Skimp on wards
Buy early mobility
Take kills (Give kills most of the time if you can help it though, except to the support) (Basically giving kills helps the lane, taking kills helps you, if you’re a good player you should be able to give kills and still influence highly)

Two main factors indicate what type of build you should go in your game. The first is team composition, which team has the better late game and better teamfight. Though the the two may have a lot to do with each other, they are not analogous. One team might have a Tristana versus an Ezreal and the Tristana would arguably have the better late game, perhaps the Ezreal has a midlane Orianna and thus they might have a better team composition due to aoe.

The second factor to indicate what you should build is more variable and its which team is winning. Maybe the team with the Ezreal is winning earlier and thus you should build to capitalize and attempt to end the game earlier.

#13 Game Overview: Coming into a game you should have a set strategy for the times in the game to create consistency and not just move around the map for no particular reason. Thus, the general game plan should be established from champion select. Either you have a timer comp or you don’t. A timer comp necessitates movement around the map because you will lose late game, so prioritize plays over farming. Otherwise you have a late game comp that can scale into team fighting. If both teams are even in terms of comps you can choose to farm or gank.

Timer Comp Play: You’re pressed to move around the map and take objectives as quickly as possible. Control your initial clear and go for the invade/gank/counter gank. Next if you don’t need to base consider diving the same lane as they return/if they did not leave, but respect the other jungler. Otherwise rotate into/around their jungle and continuously gank into you need to base. See if you can look for their jungler if youre strong enough. After your first base swap out trinkets go for dorans/long swords/mobility boots and look for the following lanes. Either lanes you can dive because they are low, lanes that are pushed into your turret that you can gank, or lanes without summoner spells that you should attend to. Head towards that lane while you changed to a red trinket and gank while being aware of counter ganks. Continue this cycle until second round of buffs or level 6 where you may be able to solo dragon with a spirit stone and dorans or an elder. Prioritize dragon over your buffs by either walking around through cleared areas or Qing over the wall and dropping a pink/trinket. Get the dragon, get your buffs, now look for turrets. If their bot and mid are winning and you can’t sneak the dragon, instead you’ll have to go top and trade top pressure for dragon. Otherwise, look for invades, dives, but most importantly turrets, which comes as a result of dives. Systematically take the outer turrets by pressuring them when your lanes are winning or gank when they’re being pushed out. Get outers, get all dragons, look for buff steals, the whole 9 yards. Then at 2nd tier tell your team to group if you’re stronger and look for the fight, or split if you’re weaker and try and take turrets on your own. To close out the game repeat and perhaps sneak baron with good vision control. Make plays, you’re on a timer.

Scaling Comp Play: You’re a scaling team and this differentiates itself insofar as you have a few more options. You are allowed to go madred if you fall behind because you can scale back into the game and farm instead of pressuring. Youre not rushed to do dragon and can avoid big plays such as invading or diving. You dont need to sneak baron, you just have to steal and make sure they don’t get the objectives (you can suicide to steal dragon too). And you can build tanky because you’re teamfight is useful and better. Look to snowball if you have the possibility but dont think its your only course of action.

#14 Thus the following will outline the four possible scenarios:

Winning Lanes and Winning Team Comp (IE. Twitch vs Ezreal)

In this situation your lanes are winning, or at least 2/3 are winning and you have a better late game composition. Youre not under a timer to make moves, just slowly secure objectives such as dragon, outer towers, then go for baron vision control. Build more tanky to go for the teamfights you’ll win and eventually command your team to force down all the turrets in a rotation style.

Winning Lanes and Losing Team Comp (IE. Draven vs Jinx)

In this situation your lanes are winning, at least 2/3 but you have a worse late game team fighting composition. You are under constraint to end the game with your snowballing lead otherwise the other team will outscale you. While you still want to get all the objectives, you will spend less time farming your jungle and more time pressing the map. Moreover, you might want to skip jungle item because the gold it would give only matters in the late, in fact you might want mobo boots to snowball. You will want to build for split push because you will eventually lose teamfights and for earlier game fits you want more damage to snowball and to push turrets. You are also open to baron sneaks.

Losing Lanes and Winning Team Comp (IE. Jinx vs Draven)

In this situation you are losing 2/3 of your lanes but you have a better late game composition. Thus, you want to stall out the game. You want a jungle item and are willing to buy wards and gank to stop turret dives and get your lanes into the game. Warding dragon and baron as well as stopping dives is your priority and so is giving the carries farm. You want to build some damage perhaps like an assassin to gimp carries and stop their snowball. Go for steals on dragon/baron and maybe split to distract the enemy until your team gets into the game. When you guys are strong enough look for the teamfights and go for the final pushes.

Losing Lanes and Losing Team Comp (IE. Draven vs Jinx)

In this situation you are losing 2/3 of your lanes and have a worse late game. You chose a timer composition and got screwed over. Now you need to go all in to try and get into the game, go for jungle item skip, mobility, baron sneaks, dives, perma ganks, camping lanes, anything to get you into the game. Tell your team to group for picks into towers and hyper push lanes together or sneak baron. Pink wards are crucial to this game to get picks and try and get something to happen. Try 1-3-1 split pushes to play your team comp properly and make plays because you cannot afford to wait. Good luck with this one.

To generalize, when losing team comp build to split, when winning team comp, tank when ahead, assassinate when behind. Now lets go into depth about what these three categories entail.

#15 Split Pushing: Split pushing is applying simultaneous pressure on another lane while your team also applies pressure in another lane. This can be done in 4-1, 3-1-1, 1-3-1 etc variations. The solo pusher should more often be in the side lanes and farthest away from the group. This can be identified by solos with TP or power pushers. This is done to take our turrets and control area not otherwise possible if grouped. When split pushing emphasize at least one lifesteal item, either Hydra or Botrk to sustain in these pushes and look to build vs what you re up against. VS AP? Get Hexdrinker or Wits End, VS AD? Maybe get a Sunfire or Randuins. When splitting attack speed boots are useful for pushing and taking towers however mobos if already built or mercs if necessary are also good. Place the boxes at entrances to the lane for good escape paths.

The Annoyance Build: Hydra Statik is the highest pushing power of two items and should be built in desperation to hyper push and pressure a lane. If you are ahead you can go for a variety of items however these two give massive amounts of pressure. Look to proxy when behind and split multiple lanes like mid top or mid bot to get your team into the game.

The Power Split: These items will give the fastest pushing power. Hydra and Statik aoe are very self explanatory. Youmuus gives movespeed and tower taking power to be very swift in a split. Sheen and Triforce gives high burst for taking towers every 2 seconds. Using ult and box gives 2 procs. Also Qing when safe and shiving a minion increases the push speed. Make sure to box in an area where the box will hit the tower and not the minions.

#16 Special: Blade of the Ruined King can operate as both a kiting and diving item. For example, slowing down and dpsing down the tanks trying to dive your backline or diving for a carry and slowing them down for your assassins. Thus, a common build would be jungle item into Botrk for team fighting.

#17 Tanking: Although the term tanking seems relatively easy to understand certain items on Shaco impact more greatly than others. Under tanking is the category of kiting and diving, one in which you would peek back for your backline carries and the other where you would attempt to distract or even kill their backline carries.

Kiting: When kiting look to place down as many boxes in optimal positions for your backline to run to for them to kite. Ultimate right away when they engage on you (cause your team is kiting) because your clone receives hp based on how much hp you have when you ultimate. Then begin to auto their frontline and shiv when they get too far past you to slow them as much as possible for your backline. Lastly, as their backline will be hitting you, look to Q away before you die but at a low enough hp such that you were useful in tanking shots.

Diving: When diving look to Q in out of range, preferably in a location that was pinked or sweeped and place your box in their carries escape path. Ultimate thereafter and if you’re tanking pop your Randuins to slow everyone in the aoe. Damage their carry and shiv to secure kills or slow for fellow divers. Diving is more risky as you use your Q to get in and thus cannot get out for 9 seconds until the cooldown returns. Keep in mind teammate abilities such as Lulu ultimate and shield to save you. Perhaps you are a high damage build and are looking to instagib one of their carries, in which case execute your combo, pray and burn everything.

#18 The Following are my Interpretations on Builds and certain Variations

Machete Start: Has been nerfed since 10% extra dmg from all sources meant 5 boxes before so its slightly worse than the earlier patch but necessary for jungle invasion play/safety. Definitely start this item 95% of the time.

Long Sword Start: For the other 5% of the time you may start long sword 3 pot for burst lvl 3 gank with the 3 wraith trick below. However, keep in mind if you do this you’re prone to your second buff being invaded which is why I only do this strat versus passive/weaker junglers.

#19 No Jungle Item: There are several ways to go about not getting a jungle item, however the main purpose is simple, higher damage output early on in the game while devaluing the stats or the jungle items by decreasing clear speed and gold earned for clearing camps. Basically its a tradeoff of gold and clear speed utility for earlier damage. I personally only recommend rushing Botrk or Hydra as they give lifesteal and Hydra gives quicker clear to get into the game by clearing camps quickly. The only other item rush I can recommend would be multiple dorans into Statik Shiv or Youmuus because of lifesteal from dorans. Each of these items gives their own utility and thus should be used in different situations to try and snowball the game. Hydra rush gives more burst than any other build immediately in the first few seconds, allows for faster split pushing and nice camp clear sustain. Botrk rush gives utility for ganks and peeling/diving later into the game. Statik gives the most movespeed at a stable 6% and some burst damage used to snowball the game. Youmuus gives more consecutive damage in ganks that last more than a few seconds and has a good mix of stats for damage and chasing to snowball. Some players such as Shaclone like to get the spirit stone but continue without the remaining jungle item for sustain, others like to get madred for earlier drag potential. Some start long sword and never touch a machete at all (I do this in one instance later in respecting the jungler section). The following is my assessment of getting the jungle items such as spirit stone or madred without upgrading them.

#20 Theory-Spirit Stone Only:

Assumption: The reason why you would get only spirit stone is for jungle sustain.

Arguement: Both Hydra and Botrk builds have a vamp scepter for sustain that can be built making it unnecessary for Spirit Stone to be built. Both Statik and Youmuu builds have lifesteal in dorans.

Conclusion: Why build Spirit Stone when you can get a vamp scepter or dorans.

Theory-Madred Only:

Assumption: The reason why you would only get madred is to solo dragon early.

Argument: If you are snowballing the lanes then you should already have dragon control and can call your team over to help you dragon, thus you don’t need to solo.

Conclusion: Go for Madred only if you need to cheese a level 6 dragon.

#21 Golem: Golem is a great late game investment after you ve become tanky and can take advantage of the bonus HP stats. However, before that point its defensive stats don’t offer much in terms of ganks and the Quill Coat for tanking camps is counteracted on the fact that your box and RNG blind helps a lot to decrease camp damage anyway. Overall get this as a later game tank item after resistances.

Elder Lizard: Elder lizard is probably the most common build amongst Shacos of the world as it is a jungle item, gives immediate AD stats and power. This is a safe early game item that will do damage and operate as a pressure item to secure objectives.

Elder Lizard or Golem with Dorans In Between: In between building the jungle items there may be gold that is better spent on damage to snowball the game. For example, instead of a long sword I may prefer a dorans for more effective pressure. The order may be something like an 880 gold back where I’d buy 2 dorans. Or maybe I only have 720 gold so it would be 2 long swords instead. Or maybe I have 1240 gold so I’d get dorans dorans long sword. Or perhaps I have a full 1675 gold on base so I can finish the Elder Lizard. It all depends on gold value and how much pressure you want to put. Rule of thumb, if you’re even with the other jungler get at least 1 dorans up on them. When behind, don’t buy any dorans. Dorans allow you to keep an edge on the other jungler in small fights 1v1, 2v2 or 3v3.

Wriggles Lantern: Wriggles is a late game jungle item that scales more efficiently than elder lizard in terms of gold when farming more jungle (small wolves, wraiths, golem as well). It also scales in terms of attack speed which makes for a great late game dps item with Botrk. Eventually it will become a Feral Flare and outscale Elder Lizard in terms of jungle efficiency and damage over time. As this is primarily a late game item I don’t build dorans for early pressure.

#22 Cdr Offense: The cdr offense build consists of possible cdr from the runes/masteries and maxes out at 40% cdr with items such as Elder/Youmuus/Lucidity Boots. This type of playstyle allows for many moves around the map and looks to snowball from being able to consistently move around the map with a low deceive cooldown and control area with boxes. This playstyle is especially effective at lower elos and is extremely fun.

Cdr Defense: Defensive cdr builds take the kiting potential to a maximum by increasing the amount of boxes being able to be placed and more shivs for slows. Additionally this cdr is gotten through items such as Aegis, Frozen Heart and Zekes to buff up the team while being utlity for peeling. This peel style is rather exclusive to winning teamfights and should be played with an extremely strong backline on your team.

#23 HAIL HYDRA: Ok lemme tell you why Hydra is so good in detail. Tiamat and Hydra give an aoe proc of 60-100% of your AD. This means that the more AD you have the more damage your Hydra procs (aoe and active) will do. Meaning that Hydra creates a slight scaling when you build AD off with it. Thus, builds like Hydra into Youmuu/Last Whisper/AD Scaling items means that the Hydra indirectly takes those AD stats and uses them as well. All this AD also manifests itself into your shiv 1.0 AD ratio and creates a burst of damage when you throw your shiv because its still magic damage that scales off AD.

#24 Hydra vs Botrk: The math involved in deciding which is “better” only really tells us what is better in certain instances. For simplicity’s sake We’ll say they both cost the same amount at the end. Hydra gives 75 AD and an active and passive aoe with lifesteal. Botrk gives 25 AD with ATKSPD an active and passive hp shred and movespeed active with lifesteal. Thus I categorize the necessities into two situations, immediate burst and dps.

In immediate burst the Hydra combo is auto crit, Hydra active, auto, shiv. Note Hydra active is 60-100% of your AD so its essentially an auto attack. Thus the amount of damage done from base AD, lets call base AD X, lets call S shiv, so the dmg would be the following.

(Crit% * [75 + X]) + (75 + X) + (75 + X) + (S + 75) = (Crit% * [75 + X]) + 225 + 2X + S

Similarly the Botrk combo would be crit auto, botrk active, auto with the botrk passive, then shiv. Let Y be some variable Botrk auto passive damage.

(Crit% * [25 + X]) + (10% max health) + (25 + X) + S + Y =

(Crit% * [25 + X]) + (10% max health) + 25 + X + S + Y

Thus to figure out which does more damage, lets just set them equal to each other and do some theory to see which side of the equation has more damage.

(Crit% * [75 + X]) + 225 + 2X + S = (Crit% * [25 + X]) + (10% max health) + 25 + X + S + Y

Clearly the Hydra crit does more than the Botrk crit so lets cancel both and put some variable P to say Hydra has more damage, for simplicity.

P + 225 + 2X + S = (10% max health) + 25 + X + S + Y

Some simple canceling tells us the following.

P + 200 + X = (10% max health) + Y

So basically what it tells us is that for the Botrk to do more damage than the hydra, the variable damage of the 2 autos from the Botrk passive and 10% the target’s max health from the active must be greater than 200 + Shaco’s base AD.

If we then devalue P and Y to zero, because their damage doesn’t do that much it tells us the following.

For Botrk to be more with than Hydra in immediate burst

10% max health > 200 + X

And from lol wiki we see that X, Shaco’s base AD at level 1 is 52~ and at level 18 is 105~

10% max health > 252 and 10% max health > 305

Lets move the 10% over to the other side by making it .1, simplifying becomes

Max Health > 2520 and Max Health > 3050

So for general simplicity, Hydra rush is better but when the target has greater than 2520~ HP Botrk is better. Hence Botrk is better later on against tanks and squishy targets such as AP carries and ADCs won’t have 2520 HP.

#25 Tiamat Cutlass: Is a build strat based on gold value and some math. One might wonder why would you get these two items over a pure Hydra. First, let me say that the 1400g it costs to go to Hydra from Tiamat is the same as the 1400g to get the Cutlass, which makes the gold equal. Hydra gives 75 AD while Tiamat and Cutlass gives 40 + 25 =65 AD. Therefore, you are trading 10 AD for the 100 magic damage slow from the Cutlass which can later be built into Botrk if you so decide. The 10 AD will manifest itself 4 times in 2 autos, Tiamat proc and shiv, so effectively 40 AD burst damage which you trade for 100 magic damage. 100 > 40. However, the tradeoff is that Tiamat aoe does not give lifesteal compared to Hydra and consecutive autos will do more with Hydra over Cutlass.

#26 Youmuus vs Statik Rush: Similar to the above calculations, Dorans into either Youmuus or Statik is also viable, however in this instance the better choice is clearer. I’ll make the assumption that the 200g difference isn’t relevant.

Statik doesn’t get strong until you finish the Statik because its purely attack speed and crit stats which bodes well with madred, but if you decide to rush it and get it somehow then you have a 100 burst of magic damage with the crit modifier.

Youmuus is easier to build into for the brutalizer part because long swords simply give damage and Youmuus gives 30 AD and 20 armor pen which you can generalize to 50+~ effective AD and move speed burst.

This is to simply say that Youmuus damage is the following, crit auto, shiv, auto.

(Crit% * [30 + X]) + (30 + X) + (S + 30) with armor pen unaccounted for.

Statik shiv is simply crit auto, shiv, auto with the passive 100 magic damage.

(Crit% * X) + X + S + (Crit% * 100)

To spare you the details it simplifies to (Crit% * 30) + 60 for Youmuu’s = Crit% * 100

Subtracting from both sides gives

60 = 70 * Crit% and as we all know Crit% is always above 1 so its above 60/70 or 6/7

Thus, Statik is better for immediate burst over Youmuus not counting the armor pen. However if you do the whole thing over again making the 30 AD into, lets say 50 AD accounting somewhat for the 20 armor pen then you get the ratio 100/70 or 10/7 which is about 143%, above the first level of Q for shaco making Youmuus more valuable than Statik.

In fact, Youmuu’s will almost always run ahead in dps over Statik because it has AD while ATKSPD doesn’t give actual damage increase per auto. So at the 3rd hit the Youmuu’s has already surpassed the Statik damage.

“So why would you ever get Statik?” The reason besides initial burst would be because of its 6% movespeed consistency over the 20% 6 second burst from Youmuu’s giving you more movement around the map and thusly, more snowball potential. How you value that is purely subjective to your view on snowballing, but if thats not your main interest in an item rush than Youmuu’s rush is better insofar as you’re going to be in the right places at the right times.

Note: Nowhere do i value the crit % chance RNG because incorporating RNG to figure out what’s the best build doesn’t seem intuitively correct to me unless its a high number like Yasuo.

#27 Guardian Angel: This item gets much praise from assassin players because of its potential to turn them into effective tanks. The same applies to Shaco, building full damage then following up with a GA allows for safety and time for your Q to come back up for an escape or a deeper dive. Note however that building GA after building damage means you are ahead enough that you don’t need anymore damage. Thus, GA is an item that secures advantages not one that gains you them. Note that if your GA gets procced and you have no more defensive stats, the armor and magic resist from the item isn’t that efficient without effective hp you would have with a giants belt or an elixir. Feel free to build this item when needing to dive when ahead to assassinate or just to be safe splitting, it may not be the optimal item but you can’t really go wrong with it. However, if you’re a split pusher transitioning into teamfights then this is a good assassin dive item.

#28 Pots and Wards: Consumables are a main part of any players early game phases. To start, I will say that when starting blue buff it is not necessary to start with a mana pot. However, if starting red buff you may optimize the time of your route if you take a mana pot, however it is not necessary (This will be discussed more in the initial clear). On backs attempt to always have at least 1 hp pot and 1 mana pot to stay safe. This is because popping these pots such as an hp pot in a fight and mana pot in escape can mean life or death. Otherwise, look to grab a pink ward and place it in a defensive manner for map control or green wards to ward their buffs, over around dragon, or to try and find the opposing jungle. Lastly, most underrate the power of elixirs. The Elixir of Fortitude allows for a burst of damage in a way that can turn the tide of a teamfight or gank/counter gank. Buy this when entering a situation where fighting is bound to occur and the result is uncertain. Some see this item as a gold sink but I personally like the timed spike it gives.

Trinkets: I start off every game with a ward trinket (although you may start with any of the trinkets you please). The reason for this is because Shaco is extremely weak against invades. Warding early in the game allows you to find out the enemies invasion route, ward your buffs defensively or drop the ward in their jungle in an offensive invade. However, for those of you that prefer a red trinket start, I would purely argue that sweeping the ward reveals your location and is not a thing you would prefer to do as when you play Shaco you can often bypass wards that you know exist. If you’re starting blue trinket you can use it on the enemy buff to see where they are starting and use some of that information to your advantage. Nonetheless the yellow trinket is the safest trinket. I like to swap to red trinket on my first back allowing for a sweep around dragon to solo sometimes or just put pressure on the map against a lane ward or protect my second round of buffs.

#29 Early Mobility: When I talk about early mobility I’m referring to mobo boots only. Early mobility entails getting mobo boots or regular boots in preference to damage. For example if you had 360 gold you might get boots and an hp pot over a long sword. Or maybe you have 800 gold and you would rather get mobility boots in place of a dorans and a long sword. There are a few conditions to do this in a safe manner. First, you can do it if the other jungler has died and thus you have double buffs to theirs, you want to snowball the game with your advantage. Second, you can do it versus very passive junglers such as Warwick because they will “outscale” you and you must take advantage of earlier parts of the game. I DO NOT RECOMMEND doing this versus aggressive junglers you are even with, for example Jarvan where he is even in score to you. The reason for this is because if you have mobility to gank, but you get counter ganked by him, you will lose the 2v2 or 3v3 because the other jungler built damage or tank while you only built mobility which isn’t directly an offensive stat. Thus be careful when you build early mobility.

Special: If I am snowballing the game but am still afraid of the other jungler I would finish my offensive item, either Elder Lizard or an item rush (Hydra, Botrk etc.) and then get mobo boots after. This puts the timer past the initial ganking phase and thus means that counter ganks are a less viable play by both junglers. Plus, after having an offensive item the mobility becomes more valuable to whoever has it.

General Boots Guide:

Build mobo boots when snowballing
Build zerker greaves when split pushing
Build tabi when team fighting vs heavy AD
Build mercs when team fighting vs heavy CC
Build sorcs when you’re yolo diving to kill 1 person

#30 Special: This part of the guide describes what build I used to climb to challenger 600 LP, note that was the past and may not work as efficiently as back then. Having run mostly AP blues and the AP from the mastery page I found myself with about 20 AP and magic damage shivs with my E. Thus, I found it beneficial for the most possible burst damage in a combo to use Hydra Statik because Hydra clearly has the highest burst in a second while Statik was magic damage. This meant that I got Hydra then built sorc shoes to emphasize my e damage then build Statik Shiv which capitalized on the penetration as it was also magic damage for an insane amount of burst potential. Note other items such as Wits End, Sunfire Cape, Thornmail all capitalize from magic penetration due to how their respective items work.

The following are the most efficient builds in my opinion for the 4 particular situations you will find yourself in.

If you are winning lane and winning team composition-Elder, Mobos/CDR Boots, Brutalizer/Youmuu’s, Tank (Group, Pick)

If you are winning lane and losing team composition-Dorans, Hydra, Mobos, Youmuu’s/LW (Split, Pick)

If you are losing lane and winning team composition-Wriggles, Botrk, Statik, Tank or Wriggles, Botrk, Hydra, Tank for Baron (Early Split, Group)

If you are losing lane and losing team composition-Hydra, Statik (Split Push Only)

#31 Here are the most Prominent Builds (whether you skip jungle item is dependent on your game):

Hydra Youmuu/Last Whisper (You would rather get LW when you need to split against someone who has built large amounts of armor)
Elder Youmuu Lucidity Boots (High impact cdr build)
Hydra Statik Shiv (Annoyance split push build)
Hydra Triforce (Highest burst because triforce gives 30 AD 30 AP that both scale 1.0 with your shiv and then you sheen proc) (downside, pricey)
Statik Infinity Edge Tank (Burst Crit Amounts) (downside, needs tank after to consistently auto for crit chances)
Golem/Elder Tank Peeler (Cdr peeling builds with aoe aura)
Botrk Statik Shiv Tank (Consistent dps with Botrk and Statik for more attack speed to proc Botrk)

#32 Special: All hail DiamondProx for this innovation once again. When you find yourself in a situation where your team is winning and all you need to do is tank for your backline you may do the following. Build Quill Coat and then Elder Lizard. This will make it so that you have early game influence with your Elder Lizard but have the Quill Coat that you can later turn into your Golem when you are tanky enough after building your tank items. This build caught my attention and would find a spot in this guide during a tank Shaco game.

Note: Let it be known I rarely ever build Infinity Edge and dislike the item as a whole. Many Shaco’s enjoy the item, I personally do not find is extremely viable or practical due to needing autos to get crits over time and the price. Sure your first auto is a crit but still.

#33 Runes: This section is very diverse insofar as many different Shaco players have different preferences to how they play the champion. Thus, I will state the amount of play styles and refer to my own.

Note: Movespeed can be swapped into any of the following builds. Note that movespeed is a greedy stat and should only reliably be used when versing a jungler inferior to you such as a passive jungler. I cannot take responsibility for you getting owned because you decided to take a greedy quint.

Note 2: All my runes can be found at my lolking using probably one of my first 3 rune pages.

http://www.lolking.net/summoner/na/31988221#runes

The Attack Speed Build: The attack speed Shaco build prioritizes Wriggles and Botrk to shred down targets and takes ATKSPD quints/marks to create openings. Armor or ATKSPD yellows may be taken when weighing offense versus defense and same as Magic Resistance or ATKSPD blues.

The Neutral Safe Opener: This is probably the easiest transition to any jungler as it takes the classical AD quints/marks and armor/mr. Take this when learning how to play Shaco for the first time or learning how to jungle.

The Initial Clear: This is the most setup for Shaco as it takes into consideration the level 1 before it occurs and builds for it in anticipation of the fastest level 2/3 gank and invade. The build is AP quints/blues/seals and AD marks/seals (AD seals have a slightly lower ratio than AP seals but the tradeoff is minimal/Trading auto dmg for box/shiv dmg). This allows for your boxes to clear the first buff extremely quickly and then you would proceed to your second location with speed. However, this build is susceptible to early invades and if your boxes aren’t optimal and no one defense then you are behind to a more safe rune page build.

The Burster: This is the build I favor and the goal is to create as much damage in a small window of time possible. I take AD quints/marks/seals and AP blues. This allows for a high amount of auto burst and shiv burst but does not fall behind extremely to the invades as you invest less into AP quints and thus can recover with AD quints more easily if you are invaded. The burst is quite high early on as you take the flat stats and try to kill a target with ignite, backstab autos and finish off with a shiv. Lately I’ve been thinking about the Back2Nexus variation with ATKSPD yellows.

Note: Fk your mana regen seals. You know who you are.

#34 Masteries: Masteries range from 30/0/0 to possible defense pages but I will cover my favorites and several variations. I prefer cdr over attack speed in most situations except for the attack speed builds and I never take butcher. I always take 3 in executioner and 1 into the crit mastery because of the Q crit.

Note: All my masteries can be found at my lolking using probably one of my first 3 mastery pages.

http://www.lolking.net/summoner/na/31988221#masteries

27/0/3: This page is a snowball page that attempts to take offense and create early game kills/pressure. This page is a variation on 30/0/0 that takes the 3 in movespeed for more snowball potential and utility. Taking all the offense on the left side of the tree such as double edged sword all the way down and picking up the flat AP while still having a choice whether or not to take dangerous game.

Special: Taking spell weaving is highly non optimal insofar as the only spell you have that procs this is your shiv which comes at the end of your combo to give your autos 1% more damage on champions. While blade weaving gives your shiv 3% more damage if you’ve landed 3 autos. Its better to pick up dangerous game or an extra point in cdr in my opinion.

21/9/0: This is a standard fighting page that looks to scrim vs other junglers and puts yourself in many fights. Taking both the flat AD and AP you may then skip warlord and put it into penetration (as you’re not sure if you’re going to be building AD so warlord isnt necessarily good). Then taking the block mastery in defense down to the flat hp. I prefer recovery over enchanted armor mainly because its better early on in the game and enchanted armor outscales at 1 armor/mr item which generally you don’t get too early on Shaco. I do not get the jungle mastery in the defense tree as your box should tank the majority of the shots.

21/0/9: Taking offense similar to 21/9/0 but instead taking the movespeed, summoner’s insight and runic affinity for more opportunities and less forcing of plays. This allows your smite and ignite to come up faster for more effective ganks mid game as well as having your buffs for 30 seconds longer to find more opportunities. This build is indeed greedier than 21/9/0 and should be taken versus a more passive jungler. Some prefer to take the recall timer over the ward range, its a matter of preference. I never get the mana regeneration and I would rather pick up a point into the consumable increase rather than ward range or recall time.

#35 Summoner Spells: Smite insofar as you jungle and the meta dictates a necessity to secure buffs. Ignite insofar as you’re trying to gain a kill to snowball the game. Teleport insofar as you’re farming the jungle like a madman and looking to split push later. Flash insofar as you are playing a controlled game while looking for opportunities but don’t necessarily need to. What second summoner spell you take also determines what type of game you want to play. Early pressure-ignite, Late pressure-TP, Midgame pressure-Flash.

Special: Exhaust is a summoner spell that can apply early game pressure but not as much as ignite does. One argument against this is that if your lane already has ignite, an exhaust would be more useful than 2 ignites. Nonetheless, exhaust is more valuable later in the game when attempting to peel for your carry. I feel exhaust can definitely be used in a defensive or offensive manner but rather would take ignite myself if I’m looking for early pressure. However, if you’re playing 5s or something and your laners already have ignite, you can take exhaust if you so wish to heighten your chance for a kill in that gank.

Note: I apologize if these last few sections seem rushed as I feel like runes, masteries and summoner spells fall secondary to the actual play style you play not the setup for that playstyle. There are so many variations that to address them all would be madness. Additionally I’m going to do this:

#36 Game Opening: When you start off a game as Shaco expect to be invaded at least double the amount of times, in fact, triple the amount of times as other junglers. This is self explanatory because, except for jungle nidalee with trap start, you’re the only jungler that needs protection of your boxes to ensure a decently timed clear. That being said there are precautions to take when starting the game, thus you must master the following.

Buy immediately and leave the base. To do this, as soon as the game starts at 0:00 right click towards the direction of the buff you want to go. Press a key on your keyboard to open the shop, I prefer to press x. Buy either machete 4hp pot (for buff to buff start), or long sword 3hp pot (for a buff 3x small wraith buff start).
Then place a box as either the top or bottom side of the map depending on what buff you are starting. If I’m starting top side on I will put it in top tri-brush or river brush and same thing for bottom side of the map. This is to check off the side invades.
Next rotate through your jungle around to the side behind your buff and watch this area for early invades.
Place your box on your buff on 55 seconds then ward over the wall if you’re starting red buff to see if they are invading (as you cannot walk back in blind).
If you’re starting blue buff then walk around and ward the banana brush from a distance outside of skillshot/hook etc range.
Stack boxes and do the buff and continue your game.

Post Invade: When you get invaded it happens in variations so lets cover what could happen.

They could have triggered your side box, thus you move back behind the buff or away into the wolves or brushes and box purely for area. This means it can be outside of the buff range but is also better if you can drag the buff later in the box if its not used. Spread out your boxes while moving safely.
They could have walked through your banana brush before you got to place your ward down meaning you are already dead if you face checked, which you didnt. Drop your ward somewhere useful like on your buff before you run and look to drop boxes while your team joins. Alternatively you can circle to your other buff.
Your ward saw them and you’re now watching them walk into your jungle, box in the buff bush and wait for them to enter with your team for a fight.
Youre getting late invaded, your bot might be able to hold them off but don’t be afraid to try and smite it down for 390 dmg with box auto attack dps and then kill the weakest small wraith to hit 2. Skill Q ASAP and Q over the wall and run away. If you get this off then you’re in a good spot, go to his closest buff and screw with the other jungler because of his cheese. Control all the buffs and the map and take over the game.
If you die at any point, default to madred builds unless you think you can still compete with the other jungler.

#37 How to Gank: Lets be real here. Its not that hard, but for those of you wanting a more structured guide, heres your checklist that you should memorize.

Make sure you have enough mana when approaching for the gank to at least Q in. Q shiv is better, Full 300~ mana for full combo is optimal.
Find an area to Q from that wont be noticed by your smoke.
Make sure the area is cleared with a pink, sweeper or knowledge.
Make sure to account for counter gank threat otherwise you might get screwed.
Q over the area and walk as deep as you can towards where you expect the other champion to be 3.5 seconds from now when you are revealed.
Keep walking till 3.5 seconds is up, no really, get as deep as you can.
Box their escape route and ultimate and begin autoing them and commanding your clone to do the same.
Kite them with you right clicking towards their escape route and your clone as well. This may take some practice to kite with both characters.
Ignite ASAP to get maximum efficiency from stopping their regen.
Proc actives such as Youmuu, Hydra after one auto for a reset.
Throw your shiv once you know they’re out of range for any autos to get there to slow them.
Keep chasing if you think that your Q will come up soon enough to get a crit to secure the kill.

The Tower Dive: More often than not a gank make entail a tower dive where the minions are pushed to the enemy tower. Please follow steps 1-4 from above then:

Begin walking towards the enemy under tower and decide whether or not you or your laner should take aggro (support taking aggro is good).
If you are taking aggro you may walk up to them and ignite/auto until you need to get away in which you will shiv and Q out of tower range.
If you are not taking aggro, wait for your teammates move and you may Q in or save it, ignite/auto and shiv as you need to finish them.

The Tower Defense: When your teammate is getting dove you might have to help to defend. Your teammate is getting dove when they are low and it seems obvious that a dive will occur such as them being oom or low on hp or no summoner spells. Box behind defensively out of vision range in hopes it will defend them and wait for the dive to occur. Once it begins Q in and auto the one chasing your teammate and slow them with your E passive and shiv. Pray they stay alive and kite the divers.

The 3 min 2v2 Top: You know that feeling when both junglers are level 3 and going to gank top because its a toxic lane, well as Shaco you have a couple more options. First, because of your quick clear you can actually get there about 5 seconds faster than other junglers. This time allows you to gank a bit faster and maybe collect your kill/pressure faster than the other jungler would be there to counter it. Additionally, you can Q into the lane brushes and set up boxes in them. I prefer to lane Q into the first bush and put the boxes at the edges. Then I’ll move back so that they cannot see my smoke then Q to the 3rd bush and put a box at the end of it.

#38 Special: The 3 small wraith trick has been popular for a long time but has been getting steam in the most recent of solomid guides about Shaco. I’m not currently aware of the writers name but he’s popularized a section about this. I discovered this trick on my own and am in no way attempting to steal his work. The 3 small wraith trick is simply mathematics. First, a blue or red buff will give 260 exp each. Next the small lizards from the buffs give 20 exp each. Lastly, the small wraiths give 20 exp each. Looking on LoL wiki you would see that to get level 3 you would need to get 660 exp. Doing the math~ 260 x 2 + 20 x 4 would be the 2 bigger camps leading to 600 exp. Thus the remaining 60 exp can be received by doing the 3 small camps. Hence the trick is to do both camps and do the 3 small wraiths to get level 3 rather than doing 3 full camps. This competes with doing 3 full camps by saving 10 seconds on your first gank and trading off the gold and exp from the big wraith/big wolf exp. Note that the small wolves give 25 exp each therefore 50 would not be enough. Lastly, a variation would be to gank and get the 60 exp from the lane cs which is 2 melee minions or 1 melee minion 2 ranged minion or 3 ranged minions.

#39 Jungle Starts: This section is exclusive to what types of plays can be made in the first 5 minutes of the game. However, I will point out my preferences and explain why I feel certain strats are at fault in solo queue.

Misconception on Straight Invades: A straight invade is when you put your boxes to do one of your buffs and then finish it to go directly into the opponents jungle nearest to you and do that buff. The clearest problems with this invade is that it requires vision to do safely for the following reason. The straight invade makes the assumption that the buff you are heading towards will be up so the assumption is the other jungler started cross map or invaded your jungle on the other side. However, doing this without any vision or knowledge of where the other jungler started is stupid because it leaves you to check a buff that might already be done. Thus this play is only valid in my opinion when vision is established and knowledge of where the other jungler started is known (In solo queue this vision generally won’t happen). A play could be to use the blue trinket to scout the buff before you go however even if you do get a steal off the other jungler could just steal your buff and it would be a 2 for 2 trade, nothing to be proud of. More often than not this strategy relies on your opposing jungler and team to be stupid and not ward defensively or start there. I would not recommend this strat as it assumes your opposing team is idiotic.

The Double Buff Clear: The double buff clear is a team reliant strat that has been around since the dawn of Shaco. It involves boxing up one of the buffs, typically the bottom side buff since your bot lane has 2 people and then Shaco would run to do his other buff and get level 3 then invade. However, exp has changed in such a way that level 3 is impossible to get this way. Thus, getting level 2 and invading/doing a camp to get 3 is the simplest way. This strat abuses boxes as a source of dps so Shaco can get the buffs from across the map. I would not use this strat is solo queue as it requires immense preparation and protection of both buffs with vision control. It is also prone to mistake if your team is unfamiliar with the strat.

Special: A variation on the double buff strat that I would do if I’d ever use it is one that gives exp to the lane. It goes like this: Box up your first buff, walk towards your second buff, do it with smite, but let your bot/top lane stand inside the buff you started and take exp, the reason for this is two fold. First, bot lane/top lane should get to lane ASAP to get their advantage, by leashing so hard it cuts into their lane automatically making your team lose an early lead. Thus, the tradeoff for this strat is giving them exp to give a surprise and get into the lane. Second, you get level 2 off of both buffs anyway so the difference is minimal and only manifests itself in the fact that you need 2 camps instead of 1 to get level 3. However, you are probably invading anyway so that shouldn’t matter to you too much.

Clearing Your Jungle: The most standard thing to do, and I like to play standard and minimize risk, is to do both of your buffs and then another camp to hit 3 or maybe do the 3 wraith trick in between. Blue to red to camp or other way. The only thing I will say is that if you do red then the 3 wraith trick then blue you should have 1 mana pot in your inventory (unless you started long sword) to clear faster. This is because you use it to Q over to the 3 small wraiths for a faster clear.

Clear Your Jungle Invade: Doing both your big camps, either red to blue or blue to red then invading the nearest buff gives a chance of punishing the other jungler if they’re greedy. This is because if they did their buff then a camp in between you will arrive at their second buff as they are doing it. First make sure that the buff you are invading is the other junglers second buff. Next, avoid wards in the invasion. Lastly, execute the invade.

#40 Checking Where They Started: There are a few indicators to figure out where the other jungler began.

First and clearest are any wards or vision found out about where they began, whether it be a trinket ward or your teammate walking in to see them.
Second would be checking the direction of where the laners come from, is top lane late to lane, bot lane, did mid come from left or right side at 1:55, these are clear indicators of where the jungler began. But be warned, some junglers will ask for a fake leash to throw you off.
Third and most importantly are missing hp or mana bars. Perhaps top or bot lane tanked a shot of the jungle camp when leashing telling you immediately that they went for that buff. Or perhaps their bot lane Vayne used tumble to leash the camp as well as the Morgana pooling. Noticing these are key to figuring out where the other jungler started.
Note that the other jungler could have invaded your second buff had you not warded it or asked your teammates to watch.
Additionally, the other jungler could have just not asked for a leash and knew that that was the highest chance of not knowing where he began, sometimes you just dont know.

#41 Avoiding Invasion Wards: Laners and the opposing jungler typically will ward you out to make sure your invade is weaker. The following is what I feel is the best circumventing of the wards. If you are red invading the blue side then Q over the red wall towards the river, press b to trigger the cooldown. Walk along the wall towards the dragon/baron to avoid the banana brush ward. Then walk towards the blue buff outside the banana brush range and Q into it. If you are blue invading red walk out towards the river and Q over the dragon/baron pit and walk into their red. Keep in mind if you see movement from the laners be ready to run away as a ward either river trinket in the river brush or 3 min or on your buff has spotted you. This movement is the most consistent I have found so far for early invasions.

Executing the Invade: Having invaded you are now deep in enemy territory without your Q up, make sure to run if you see laners collapsing but otherwise prepare for 1 of 2 scenarios. 1, the buff is done and the other jungler is doing a camp nearby to get level 3, in which case run to it immediately either the wolves, wraiths or wight because if they get 3 and you’re still 2 you will lose, run at them ASAP. If they are doing the camp then execute the following. Go for a box to stop their escape, either to towards their base from the red or in the bush, being your backstab crit and kite them. If you have smite look for the smite but be ready for them to flash away. Moreover, use your ignite right away, trading your ignite for their flash is worth it. If you get collapsed on make sure you have an escape opening but be patient and box up defensively to get away.

#42 How to do Camps/Dragon/Baron:

To do a camp at full mana look to Q towards it if you wanna use the mana, either over the wall or closer to it, place the box behind the biggest camp there, for example behind the big wraith, then begin an auto on the big camp, shiv, then continuously auto while kiting out to make sure the box takes the damage. Because the camp has turned to the box you have backstab damage now. Lastly, kite back in to make sure the box doesn’t die to maximize dps. Camps like wolves and wraiths have a variation in the damage while golems and big camps will take 3 hits to kill the box. On buffs you may place the box behind the target and kite in and out to make the buff turn. This creates times where dps is not done by the buffs, it takes practice tho. Try to put the box down auto, move in and out while consistently autoing. Some will argue to wait for the box to trigger but the 2 seconds of wait time is rarely worth the 2 seconds of time you could of spent to use it elsewhere.
To do dragon be level 6 and either have madred/spirit stone, dorans or long sword. Make sure its clear with a pink or red trinket then begin either by Qing in or walking into it. Throw down box and auto with a backstab, then let the dragon begin his auto attack animation onto you and then ultimate to dodge the auto attack. The dragon will now turn to the box but turn back if you are in range. Take the first auto because it will use your regeneration stats. Then, kite out letting the box take a hit, kite back in, let the clone take a hit, then let the box take the last hit before it dies. Continue on and let your clone take all the damage until one hit will kill it, then you tank. Finally, but the box down again and let it tank only 1 hit, then tank the remaining damage and let the box die at the end by tanking a hit. Use your smite and then Q out to do your buffs or heal at base.
As Shaco you can solo baron with many stats. A variation of Feral with 15~ stacks, Botrk and Hydra or Feral with 15~ stacks, Botrk, Tiamat and Spirit stone, treat the baron like dragon except it 1 shots boxes so you wanna tank it the majority of the time, use your lifesteal stat and Q always to avoid baron knock up and increase dps.
Always go back to the objectives ASAP and clear them if the opponent doesn’t have timer, prioritize objectives please. You have the option of clearing it a minute before and starting to set up boxes the minute before. Do the same for estimated timers on opponent buffs and always be on time for objectives. Obviously playing the vision war is helpful but you have to rely on your team for that.

#43 Filling: You are in solo queue, and thus you should be nice and not rage to win games. Do not say unnecessary comments and only put in chat positive information and things that will impact your win in the game. Additionally, if you cannot fill you will not win on net solo queue games. Thus, learn to play the op champs per patch. ATM I feel like the following are the ops.

Top-DR. Mundo, Gragas, Jayce, Kassadin, Lucian, Lulu, Ryze, Shyvana, Singed, Teemo, Yasuo

Mid-Gragas, Jayce, Kassadin, Lucian, Lulu, Ryze, Syndra, Talon, Vel’koz, Yasuo, Ziggs, Zilean

Jungle-Elise, Evelynn, Lee Sin, Rengar, Nunu

ADC-Cait, Kog’maw, Lucian

Support-Braum, Gragas, Lulu, Thresh, Vel’koz

Learn to play 1-2 champions from the list above or be good at your own champion.

Additionally I do believe there are sleeper op champs such as: Cassiopeia, Heimerdinger, Poppy, Quinn

#44 Playing Shaco is A Lot About Experience: Although here are some general tips for matchups and secrets. Note low ping is 70 below. Most plays are based on your ability to ultimate and be creative. Look for invades on weaker junglers. And keep in mind their reveals such as level 3 trinket and pink ward in inventory.

Ignite: You will not be seen in stealth if you’re invisible. Wait 1.5 seconds before Qing so that when the ignite wears off then you will be visible.

Aatrox: Your box can fear him mid Q making him go back to his original location.

Ahri: Your box counts towards his passive, careful of the heal. The W will not reveal you.

Akali: Ulting her Q is crucial to decrease damage taken. Your box cannot fear her while she is invisible.

Amumu: Box to block his Q with low ping.

Anivia: Ult over her wall.

Annie: Do not try to ult her flash ult, yours takes time while hers is instant, instead try to Q and hide.

Ashe: Her W will reveal your location because of its missing space if you’re hit when invisible.

Blitzcrank: If you Q when the hook hits you you will go to where you Q’d but be frozen for a split second.

Brand: Do not ult unless you’re dodging his ult, you will make your clone bounce his ult and kill yourself.

Braum: His passive will reveal you for the real one as your clone will have a different charge number.

Caitlyn: Ulting her ult before it hits you puts it on a 5s cooldown. Ulting it and dodging it puts it on a full cooldown.

Cassiopeia: Your clone will always spawn facing the top of the map, use this to your advantage to not get it frozen by cassio ult.

Cho’gath: Yes you can ult his ult, yes you will get screwed if you get silenced.

Darius: Ulting Darius ult puts it on a 5 second cooldown.

Diana: You will proc her shield in invis revealing a lot about your location.

Draven: If Draven throws a Q axe at you and you ult it, it will disappear into nowhere and not come back if dodged. It cannot be caught because it doesn’t exist.

Elise: The best time to go on Elise is after her cooldowns have been used, on a camp or in a gank, especially if she repelled in. Abuse her cooldowns but otherwise Q/ult her E, if you get hit you’ll take her full rotation. Additionally come out of the invis after her spider W cooldown is up for maximum efficiency. Hell you can even smite a spider.

Evelynn: Your box cannot proc on her while she is invisible. Save your E for when she W’s to re-apply the slow.

Ezreal: Block the skillshots with your clone in front of you when chasing. This will also decrease Arcane Barrage damage.

Fiddlesticks: Do not ult when he E’s you, you will bounce kill yourself, same with your box, it will bounce. Ignite ASAP. Invade if you can, he probably put a green or pink somewhere though.

Gragas: His ult radius is larger than your Q radius so no matter what direction your Q if he throws it dead center on you it will hit. Instead try to ult it.

Graves: Your clones an idiot when blinded if you are as well.

Heimerdinger: Smite the turret, especially the big turret.

Irelia: Don’t let her Q reset to you by your clone, instead run it a different direction if you’re attempting to run away.

Jarvan: You can ultimate through his glitchy ult.

Jinx: Zap does not reveal you when invisible.

Kassadin: His E passive will proc when you Q in, be aware he might have noticed you.

Katarina: Her ultimate will reveal you if in the area. Careful of the bounce from your clone to you.

Kha’zix: Your box and ultimate stops his isolation damage, use it to duel.

Kog’maw: His ult will not reveal you in invis. However, watch out for the passive if you don’t have a getaway plan.

Leblanc: You cannot ultimate the chain, it will continue as it was in terms of time after your ultimate.

Lee Sin: You can box his Q with low ping. You can also ultimate his ult and put it on a 5 second cooldown. Invade if you have the balls. Look for jukes, Q away from his E when in range. Ult his ult. Shaco has a winning percentage in this matchup.

Lulu: She will reveal you, she will chase you, you will die, don’t turn, run and Q over a wall.

Malphite: Botrk after he Q’s not before.

Morgana: Her ult will reveal you in invis.

Nami: Time your Q over the ult and don’t get clone bounced by her W.

Nocturne: His Q will follow you even after you Q, either get over a wall or stand still. Fear will still trigger on you when invis.

Nunu: Run hide, tell your team to ward, hide your children. Honestly this is a game of warding and knowing what will happen and how to respond. Invade and being invaded is the name of the game. Get 2 buffs or try and steal or kill him as he’s doing it.

Orianna: Predict Orianna’s ball movements to dodge her skills and don’t take too many consecutive autos trying to get to her.

Pantheon: Watch for the aegis to go down then go in, try to ulti his stun and move behind him while you ulti to evade his E. Remember to run from his final crit.

Quinn: You probably need Botrk. Q and ult the passive procs she has on you.

Rengar: He will try to delete you, Q as soon as he ults onto you so he doesn’t gain the invis reveal and then see if you can go in. Be smart about the brushes. You cannot ult ASAP because it has a cast time and you will die. If you invade him watch out for collapse and double bola or burst from double Q.

Riven: To win you have to ultimate/Q her stun otherwise she will full combo you. Ideally you ultimate and Q her ultimate. Watch out for the 3rd Q knockup it also operates as CC. If she ults early just back off and wait for its cooldown.

Shen: Box fear Shen as he attempts to ultimate. If he taunts you in invis you will attack and be revealed.

Sion: Have trigger finger on Q and Ult vs AP Sion.

Skarner: His third skill will immobilize you so try and get away from it before it happens. Note he is faster than you with W, so you’ll have to run an unconventional path.

Soraka: Her Q tells you where you are.

Swain: Just ignite him before you duel.

Syndra: Q her stun, if you get stunned you die.

Talon: Stay out of E range so you don’t get bursted, this includes flash E. If you Q in it will be close without an invis reveal.

Tryndamere: If he has reveal you will lose unless you save your Q to run it out.

Twisted Fate: His ult reveals you, be ready to move ASAP after their team sees you and then ult his gold card to survive.

Twitch: Keep your Q up otherwise you’ll get slowed and kited from him Qing onto you.

Udyr: Make early plays and avoid him later if he hyper farmed. Skip jungle item.

Veigar: Stunned and you die. Otherwise you can ult ontop of him and be invisible and pray he uses his combo on your clone.

Vi: Watch for Vi from over the walls and don’t take her third auto cause its armor breaking % dmg. She can 100-0 you if you’re full damage and shes 1 dmg item and you’re tank, or CC you for her team. If you Q her ult it hits you in invis but she remains at the location where you were before you blinked.

Vladimir: His E will hit you in invis. Dont dive him when his cooldowns are up please.

Volibear: Respect the passive. Dont walk through minions if hes trying to kill you with his ult aoe. Not highly recommended to invade.

Warwick: Invade, skip jungle item, pray.

Xin Zhao: Avoid third strike, he doesn’t have to use the first 2 on you, he can charge up E to you and knock you up.

Yasuo: Juke the stabs and control you ult that his slide doesn’t benefit from going through your clone to you. This is purely a battle of whether or not he lands his third Q on you with EQ.

Zac: Don’t dive his passive and smite a blob.

Zed: Walk up to him and if he ults you walk away, otherwise push him in.

Ziggs: Delete him ASAP and don’t try to siege vs his clear.

Zilean: Don’t get baited by his ult and his speed. His bombs guarantee a hit on you. The timer freezes when you ultimate so dont try and dodge it.

In reality theres fairly little to say because its a reaction time skill game with Shaco, improve your mechanics and you’ll improve your game.

#45 Skins: Just for funzies, my favorite skin is Asylum Shaco. Classic Shaco is clearly American. Mad Hatter/Royal Shaco are European. Masked is Korean. Asylum seems more Chinese. Nutcracko is… Latin American. And Workshop is I dunno lolz.

#46 Shoutouts: Some Shacos I’ve learned from.

Europeans

Shoutouts to Larskeyo a Shaco that taught me not to level my ult past level one.

Shoutouts to Omieshomies and his early game play and warmog builds.

Shoutouts to Fredfrost and his Youmuu aggro play.

Shoutouts to Shaclone for mobo boots early when he played it.

Koreans

Shoutouts to Newface for his level 3 pressure plays and Botrk play.

Shoutouts to Aracro for knowing Hydra Triforce was the highest burst.

Shoutouts to Lingling for making pressure builds into tank with tabi/mercs.

Shoutouts to Youngmini for Hydra rushing and putting tons of pressure.

Shoutouts to Beautiful Korean for popularizing Statik.

Americans

Shoutouts to AceSmurfSlayer for playing AP blues.

Shoutouts to Back2Nexus for theorycrafting and being a high ranked NA Shaco.

Shoutouts to Wereshrew for long sword start burst and cutlass play.

Shoutouts to Dareyck for being a long time Wriggles’er.

Shoutout to my mods except Crayzeeclown, my streams been lacking the last few weeks cause of work and I’m currently in Italy for 2 weeks but I’ll be back soon.

Shoutout to the few viewers I’ve had in my short time of streaming and I’ll be praying for decent connection so I can continue streaming.

Shoutout to all the people that talk to me randomly and all the wonderful solo queuers I’ve met on the way up the ladder, even if we haven’t had the best of relationships I still admire your play and ability.

Shoutout to my sister who’s awesome and lent me her keyboard to type this.

Last but not least shoutout to my IRL friends and raidcall boys for making League fun and Dongers University exist. Charlie, Bilal, Nathen, Nick, Dimitri, Pearse, Shawn (AKA masterofroflness on youtube), Gary, and all of my friends I’ve had IRL.

#47 Common Questions:

Why is your name YouMatter?

I have many friends, past and now who devalue themselves and feel down because of family, friends, a variety of reasons. All I can say is make everyone, even those you don’t know feel important, you don’t know what type of difference you’ll make because of it, even if you never find out. But more so, the name was specifically because of one person that I care about a lot, therefore I get involved in a lot of anti abuse communities and anti human trafficking societies.

Where are you from/What do you do?

Im a college student in my first semester in New York City. I go to school, hang out with friends, play online, hang out with my parents/sisters and volunteer.

Will you add me in league?

These days I find that I can’t really do that because there are too many people. However, if I see you on the stream a lot and I feel the need to mod you then yes I will add you. If you speak chinese to me the first time we meet I will delete you as I find that offensive to assume that all chinese people can speak/read chinese.

What is your streaming schedule?

Currently in the Summer it is something like Monday-Friday variable time. However when school starts it will clearly be less as I will focus on my studies. I don’t stream weekends because I go to my other home.

What’s your ethnicity, age, etc.?

I am Chinese, Shanghainese, born and raised in New York. I’m 18 and my birthday is December 31st.

Are you seeing anyone?

Not atm, haven’t found anybody I could see myself being with for a long time.

Do you do giveaways and viewer game stuff?

Occasionally I’ll do viewer games if the day is relaxing and I’m tired. If the stream gets big enough then I’d get some rp or skins or something for you guys :)

#48 I hope that those of you that have read this have learned something about Shaco or League of Legends. Im not sure if updates will be regulatory and its pretty patch dependent but I’ll try my best to keep info updated and put the notes at the top. Thank you all for reading and best of luck to you guys on the rift.

Again I’m not very good with social media but watch me at:

www.twitch.tv/YouMatter

where I stream sometimes Monday-Friday

<3 Thanks for reading!

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