Shaco - Carry Ranked Games

Introduction

Pros & Cons

Pros :

• Fast Jungle
• Great ganking (one of the best!)
• Impressive damage early on
• Can take Dragon as soon as it spawns & Solo Baron
• Good counter-jungle with great steal potential
• Great pusher & tower destroyer
• Great warding due to Jack In The Box
• Fun to play

Cons :

• Squishy early
• Quite hard to learn to be a good Shaco
• Expensive build
• Needs lots of mana to be the most effective
• Relies on kills/farm

Runes

Masteries

Brute Force - Extra AD for clearing your jungle faster & more efficient ganking.
Butcher - Bonus damage to minions is a must have for a Shaco-Jungler.
Alacrity - Good synergy with your Greater Glyph of Alacrity
Sorcery - A left-over point that gives you 1% cooldown reduction (you can change this one if you wish).
Weapon Expertise - A great help when ganking and fighting in general.
Havoc - Same as Brute Force only better :)
Vampirism - A little bit extra life-steal that fits well with Wriggle's Lantern.
Sunder - Adds to your Greater Quintessence of Desolation & Greater Mark of Desolation as well as to Weapon Expertise. These combined equal massive damage!
Executioner - Same as Havoc only better :D

Summoner's Resolve - For that 10G when using Smite.
Resistance - I found the extra MR quite useful when ganking APs that dominate my team (they feel invincible and will try to 1v2 while retreating).
Hardiness - Works great with Wriggle's Lantern as well as with Greater Seal of Resilience.
Tough Skin & Bladed Armor - Extra defense and damage to minions is always fine for junglers.

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Skill Sequence

You take your first point in Jack In The Box for better jungling as they do a fair amount of damage, fear the target (important seconds in which they can't attack you) and also draw the minion's damage to themselves.

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Your second point goes to Two-Shiv Poison. It not only does damage but also has more options like : slowing the target when ganking & pulling minions into your Jack In The Box.

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Then you finally take your third point in Deceive which can work like a little Smite and makes you one of the most dangerous gankers in the game.

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The rest is quite simple you max out Two-Shiv Poison first, Deceive second and Jack In The Box last, taking a point in Hallucinate whenever you can.

Skills Explained

Shaco deals 20% bonus damage when striking a unit from behind.

This is a very great passive that, when used with Deceive, can do a crazy amount of damage. This works like Havoc but is a lot better.

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Shaco teleports nearby and becomes stealthed for 3.5 seconds. His next basic attack within the next 6 seconds will critically strike, dealing 140/160/180/220/240% damage (normal critical strikes deal 200% damage).

A good ability to have for escaping, ganking and moving around the map faster. This works like Flash, which is the reason you don't need Flash. Ghost + Deceive grants huge mobility and speed making escaping and ganking really easy.

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Shaco creates a Jack In The Box at the target location. It will Stealth after 2 seconds, and pop out when an enemy comes near, fearing nearby enemies for 0.5/0.75/1/1.25/1.5 seconds and attacking them.

Even though you max this last, it is an important ability to have not only while jungling. Used right, you can ward an important part of the map for a short duration (for example ward enemy jungle or its entrances before doing dragon). You also can build a ''wall'' of Jack In The Boxes around you while doing dragon (explained further in the Jungle part).
Last but not least it is useful while ganking as well, when used at the right time. I haven't figured it completely out yet, but if you gank and Deceive behind an enemy, quickly place a Jack In The Box in the enemy's escape route. He eventually gets feared which almost guarantees you the kill.

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Passive: Shaco's basic attacks poison his target, reducing their Movement Speed. If the target is a minion, it reduces their chance to hit by 20/22.5/25/27.5/30% for 2 seconds.

Active: Deals 40/80/120/160/200 (+) (+1) magic damage to target enemy, and poisons them for 3 seconds. Upon activating this ability the passive is removed until Two-Shiv Poison becomes available again.

Two-Shiv Poison is another spell that can be used offensively and defensively. Also it not only makes jungling easier but also ganking. This kinda works like a mini Red Buff. If you come up close enough try to Auto-Hit your target first before throwing this. This completes your Backstab- Deceive- Two-Shiv Poison. If you Deceive behind your enemy, auto hit him which will proc Backstab for 20% more damage + Two-Shiv Poison's passive. Then activate Two-Shiv Poison right after your auto hit. This burst deals insanely high damage early game, snowballing with your items into late game.

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This is what makes Shaco a true assassin. Not only you can deal high amounts of damage with your item build but you can also 3-hit an enemy carry using all his abilities at the right time.

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Shaco vanishes briefly and reappears with a clone that lasts up to 18 seconds. The clone deals 75% of Shaco's damage and receives 50% increased damage.
On death, the clone detonates, dealing 300/450/600 (+1) magic damage to nearby enemies.

A great Ultimate that fits well with Shaco. First of all this is what makes you a good 1v1 Champion and a great pusher. Second of all you can dodge spells like Ashe's Enchanted Crystal Arrow or Karthus' Requiem. This also makes it possible to early dragon and solo Baron in late game.

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As you can see you can use Shaco's abilities Offensive and Defensive, for jungling, ganking and for 1v1s.

Summoner Spells

My choice :

- In my eyes a must have for any jungler no matter how strong he is. You jungle way faster, you can steal Dragon, Baron or enemy jungle easily. 10 Gold for every Smite equals free Sight Ward


- Fits well with your abilities in my eyes as you can use this offensive & defensive. This really makes your ganks deadly as hell because of Ghost + Deceive.

Viable alternatives :

- Great mobility because you can jump over walls. Not needed for Shaco because of Deceive and Flash has a very high cool down.


- Probably worth a try if you replace it with Smite. Great ganks if you Deceive + Exhaust the enemy and THEN attack. Not the best choice because you would need to skill this in your masteries, which would change everything.


- Solid choice for everyone. Great for "last hitting" enemies.


- Shaco needs a lot of mana. Your mid wants Blue often. Viable in my eyes but I prefer explaining mid that I need it and gank 4 times than letting mid take it and gank 2 times.


- Nice one for pushing. Other than that good for solo lanes. If you find yourself pushing much more than being an important role in team fights take it.


- A nice and underestimated spell in my eyes. Getting caught by stuns etc.? Try it out. With my build your survivability will forgive you a mistake so Cleanse is not really needed.

Not for you:

- Holy moly, this spell saves lifes so often...in low elo!


- Blurgh, I don't see any good point to use it.


- Tanks only. Period.


- To be honest I haven't tried out this yet. Seems interesting but I don't see this happening on junglers.


- Hm, interesting but not for a jungler.

Items

- An excellent item for jungling. The extra AD, Armor and Life Steal really help to stay in the jungle forever and survive those encounters with enemys. Additional to that you have a free ward. However with this ward you should only ward places like Dragon or Baron and buy additional wards for your Solo Top and Mid lane. A support should ward Bot and if posible Dragon.

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- Not necessarily the best choice but this really helps getting around the map fast and is a solid pick for a roamer like Shaco that will gank as much as he can.

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- A solid amount of AD, 25% critical chance and 250% damage when hitting a critical strike. This is the ideal item when getting Trinity Force and Phantom Dancer. In total, you will have 70% critical strike chance with these three items. And the additional 50% damage really helps out dealing monstrous amounts of damage.

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- As final item I chose Banshee's Veil because my Shaco was lacking Magic Resistance, Health and Mana. This item solved my problems and gave me a nice passive that lets me ignore any spell which again has a great positive effect on the Go In- Kill - Go out idea.

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OR - Great Items that you need (one of them depending on how much gold you have in your bank). The Black Cleaver is great if your enemies build Armor because your Hallucinate clone gets a buff from it too. More importantly you get your needed Attack Speed and AD and The Black Cleaver gives a nice amount of both.
If you don't have enough money or you feel lacking Magic Resistance buy Wit's End. Great On-Hit buff (yes Hallucinate!) and great Attack Speed + that nice MR.

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- A great item for Shaco because of the huge Health bonus. If you follow this order and you got all items, you will be a running Hell-Machine. The bonus AD is quite nice and you get an awesome slow! Your enemies should not be able to escape now.

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There's no real order I think. It's all depends on the situation. If you are getting nuked down fast this order should work. If your still getting nuked down fast after Banshee's Veil get Frozen Mallet. If you see yourself tanky enough go for more damage.

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If you have all items above and the game is still going on, trade your Wriggle's Lantern for Madred's Bloodrazor and your Boots of Mobility for Mercury's Treads.

Also never forget to buy Sight Ward! You created a solo lane so be responsible for it and ward it. It is also your task to have Baron and Dragon warded despite having a supporter or not.

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When you really have all items, or don't feel like changing your Wriggle's Lantern and Boots of Mobility, feel free to buy Elixir of Agility, Elixir of Brilliance, Elixir of Fortitude and Oracle's Elixir.

Building Your Items!

Start off buying Cloth Armor and 5 Health Potions.
After you finished blue you should have enough money to buy Boots of Speed, a Sight Ward and some Health Potions. Decide for yourself if you need Health Potions.

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Then finish your Wriggle's Lantern first and get your Boots of Mobility right after.
Never forget to buy Sight Wards!

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Buying your Infinity Edge I'd suggest building it like this: B. F. Sword > Pickaxe > Cloak of Agility.

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For the Frozen Mallet you want to get the thing you need more. Damage = Phage Health = Giant's Belt

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The order you build your The Black Cleaver depends on how much money you got. Preferably buy B. F. Sword first.

Same goes for Wit's End, where you preferably buy Recurve Bow first.

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For Banshee's Veil try getting Negatron Cloak first.

Jungling

It most likely isn't warded,
Great gold advantage early on for your team,
Fair amount of experience,
More dragons for your team to get.


Wriggle's Lantern is the most important thing you need;
Beeing level 6 and have you Hallucinate ready;
Probably Blue buff to do it faster;
Map awareness.

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Priority sorted with numbers 1 beeing highest priority.
Red~ Your most important ward spots as a jungler.
Yellow~ Spots to ward if counter-jungled a lot.
Green~ Ward spots for counter-jungling.
Blue~ Other mention able ward spots (good for late game).

These are also spots you have to be aware of when ganking!

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Will be Redone after the Jungle Patch:

Ganking

1. If your enemy has no jungler and your Top Lane is in a 1v2 situation, ganking there becomes priority #1.

2. Don't only gank when you are sure you get a kill from it. The main reason of ganks are helping the lanes dominate the enemy.

3. There are three different sides of ganking. The first one beeing just trying to kill the enemy. The second one would be wasting their Flash, Ghost or whatever they have up their sleeves while doing a little bit of damage. This opens a wide room for a gank where you just kill the enemy because they can't escape now. The third side would be assistance of the lane. Means you jump in do some damage but immediately retreat and defend your tower.

4. When ganking don't take any CS (creep score = last hits). This will just push the lane and deny your teammate.

5. Tell your team what you are up to for example : omw top (on my way top). Ask your lanes if they urgently need ganks or if you can go on farming or assist other lanes.

6. If a lane calls you for an urgent gank, first of all start to go in their direction and analyze the situation. If another member of your team needs real help instead of just kills this member has a higher priority.

7. Make sure you don't die! This will be the thing you want to avoid most, but it happens here and there.

8. Leave a ward on the lane you just ganked because it is quite realistic that the enemy jungler will come for a counter-gank immediately.

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Team Fights

Shaco is an assassin and you should play this role ONLY with him. That means you when a team fight breaks out you are not right inside it but wait until you can clearly tell where all the enemies are most important being their Ad Carry. You want to focus all your skills and attacks on the target with the biggest priority (most damage dealing one) which are their carries.
Your Hallucinate is important for surviving in team fights. You can also prepare fights with Jack In The Box at positions like Dragon. Another good use of Jack In The Box would be if their team is grouped together and you can fear everyone or most of them. This will help your team.

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Another important role would be pushing towers while your team is fighting. Shaco is a great pusher because of Wriggle's Lantern and his high mobility. Also if your team can do a split push you shine in 1v1 situations. Try to stay alive because you also are a great threat for Baron & Dragon steals.

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Remember:

This build is made for massive nukes but despite your 120 Armor and 100 Magic Resistance (if you have all items), you will die quick because of the high penetrations that the new masteries offer everyone.

To Do List

-Finish all Chapters
-Add Banners for each Chapter
-Add Early Dragon Video
-Edit Titles (colorize & change size)
-Final check of the looks
-Final grammar check.