Don't think your boxes are going to get you a kill. Chances are, they won't unless the enemy is inting at you or you're extremely good at baiting with low HP and dodging every hit.

Your whole objective is to use your boxes as a security device. When they're behind you, the enemy can not dive you. Your box damage is way too high. Your goal is secure botlane and only worry about kills if the enemy is extremely aggressive and you have a box setup to carry you.

As of patch 9.21, AP Shaco has been nerfed. Toplane/Midlane Shaco is no longer viable. Support Shaco continues to survive.

Some may wonder: "How do I play AP Shaco Support?"

Two words: Pink Ward

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The best way to learn AP Shaco is to just watch this guy. Trust me.

Crafted long ago as a plaything for a lonely prince, the enchanted marionette Shaco now delights in murder and mayhem. Corrupted by dark magic and the loss of his beloved charge, the once-kind puppet finds pleasure only in the misery of the poor souls he torments. He uses toys and simple tricks to deadly effect, finding the results of his bloody “games” hilarious—and for those who hear a dark chuckle in the dead of night, the Demon Jester may have marked them as his next plaything.

Most would say that death isn't funny. It isn't, unless you're Shaco - then it's hysterical. He is Valoran's first fully functioning homicidal comic; he jests until someone dies, and then he laughs. The figure that has come to be known as the Demon Jester is an enigma. No one fully agrees from whence he came, and Shaco never offers any details on his own. A popular belief is that Shaco is not of Runeterra - that he is a thing from a dark and twisted world. Still others believe that he is the demonic manifestation of humanity's dark urges and therefore cannot be reasoned with. The most plausible belief is that Shaco is an assassin for hire, left to his own lunatic devices until his services are needed. Shaco certainly has proven himself to be a cunning individual, evading authorities at every turn who might seek him for questioning for some horrendous, law-breaking atrocity. While such scuttlebutt might reassure the native inhabitants of Valoran, it seems unimaginable that such a malevolent figure is allowed to remain at large.

Whatever the truth of his history might be, Shaco is a terrifying, elusive figure most often seen where madness can openly reign.

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