100% im gonna be trying to rush it first or second item, will be updating the guide with it soon (when i can be bothered - edit, i was bothered enough to do it), its definetely going to be core, still trying to theorycraft the early mana issues tho if if i rush it first item since shaco has one of the lowest mana regens in the game and cant benifit much from the 150% mregen on the item, im thinking of still just buying the mana crystal with the no pots 300g tp tech, but just holding onto it and selling it later. Since it sells for 210g ill only be losing 90g in the long run but since i dont buy the 100g of pots ill still be up 10g overall, ill be experimenting with looking into a tear aswell but i still need to watch my early laning when i do with the mana timings, because the 300g tp tech allows me to use mana as much as i want and by the time i get the 300g ill usually be out of mana or close to, adding an extra 100g of waiting might decrease the early pressure a bit if i have to conserve some mana, and tear sells for 280g so ill be losing out on 120g or 20g overall since no pots if i sell it later, but theres always the option of going into tear if i pick up a bit of early gold and cant afford dark seal alongside the mana crystal, mana crystal and seal would have more value then a tear. Idk, still working out that side of things, dont think manaflow band is worth it tho still.

I have had some thoughts on that, i tried manaflow in a game initially and found that it gives not alot of mana by the time that i do the 300g tp tech for a mana crystal, which provides all the mana that i need at that point and later in the game i wont need the 1% mana recharge or extra mana.

I initially tried scorch along with sudden impact/treasure hunter second (cut down did vastly more damage as secondary when tested so opted for the 33 haste through runes since its damage along with more box potential), i honestly find that scorches damage is really weak early compared to the power of other subrunes, and the ap from gathering synergises with blackfires %ap increase, deathcaps %ap increase, increases general damage post 10min, outdamages scorch post 20min, and increases the box duration from the %10 ap ratio, which gives shacos lategame box control potential a lot more power so that its not just a press E + ignite on adc build.

In terms of power because its a lower haste build i chose axiom to get more clone opportunities with its 7% cd refund on takedown along with slightly more damage, but the main point of axiom is for the clone cd refund.

scorch could help if youre guarenteed to snowball the lane but becomes useless later if not, while gathering gives you options if your adc ints/you get camped ect, but in the end the choice is whatever works best for you.

(edit: forgot to add bloodletters, i dont really like that item, im a firm believer that hp is bad on shaco because you want your clone to be one shot, it takes too long to be usefull with the burn, its only really viable if you have an apc so that you can double up with their void staff to boost their damage. also i generally dont want the stormsurge to proc on a tank since i want to save it to chunk a squishy, but if its a high tank game id swap shadowflame for cryptbloom since its the most optimal antitank with its 20 haste)

The E Q crit quicktrade is where you throw E and Q towards the enemy and backstab crit them at the exact same time the E lands, or slightly before the E lands so that the E can get bonus damage from them being lower (tho thats a fair bit harder to land), it gives the enemy less time to react and punish you for it, but it can be very risky since youre using your only escape to deal damage, its useful for either chunking the opponent or to execute them when they think the E itself wont kill them so they wont use heal/barrier. its a lot stronger early on ad shaco but can still be quite effective early game for ap shaco.

Sure, stored box damage potential just means the amount of damage of all the boxes that can be controlled at once, like if you can set at most 14 boxes at once and they each deal 1000 dmg then the stored damage potential would be 14000, so they have the potential to deal 14000 damage if all of them are triggered. Lemme know if you need more info

also considering a triple codex core building into crypt and redemption as an alternative... sounds crazy, but it has 30 ap and 15 haste, can be used to kill with the 10% max hp true dmg, or to overdose on heals and save your team... and with a triple codex core the issue of needing to sell dark seal wouldnt come up as you wouldnt need the 4th codex... call me a mad genius but that could actually work. lose out on a bit of damage, still have 15 haste, cheaper build, 3 codex core, more heals, long range vision, area denial with the threat of the true dmg... let. me. cook. on that for a bit