Hello! My name is Shagod and I'm happy to teach new shaco players how to play shaco. If you like this guide, be should to thumbs up this guide and if want to see some cool shaco content check out my youtube channel.

More will soon come! Make sure that you check this page every so often! :P

This is my patch 7.23 guide for shaco if your interested. Play Video

Shaco is a great champion and Every ability is unique to shaco and each ability is very strong if you use it right.
Deceive - This is a great ability and can go slightly farther range than Flash when used over certain walls. However Deceieve has a cast time unlike Flash.

Jack In The Box - This is an ability has so many uses but many people fail to recognize its true potential. You can block skillshots, you can cancel ults, it is a free ward, and it has a sweet interaction with the plants.

Shaco W box interactions video here...

Two-Shiv Poison - This is a normal but annoying ability. Two-Shiv Poison has a passive that with permaslow a champion and it has a 3 sec active slow also. This is so annoying to deal.

Hallucinate - This is shaco's clore :P ability. You can dodge any ability with this skill if you time it right, and it proccs the items that you have, making assassin shaco super effective. You can clear turrets AND inhibitors really quick.

There is currently a bug that doesn't allow you to attack the inhibitors by clicking R but if you click alt right click you can attack the inhibitor.
Play Video

Simply Max R>E>Q>W in that order however, it is more complicated than that.

There is actually a lot of flexibility with shaco's kit and which abilities you can upgrade.

You are always going to upgrade Jack In The Box first at lv 1 for the very fast clear.

At level 2, there is a debate between whether if you upgrade Deceive or Two-Shiv Poison. You should always upgrade Deceive at level 2 because it improves your clearing time. Even though Two-Shiv Poison does damage, Deceive will help you reach your camps faster. The damage you get for using Two-Shiv Poison is small and Deceive allows you to do more. If the enemy decides to invade when you are level 2, you have Deceive so you are safer and you can potential kill them than oppose to getting Two-Shiv Poison at level 2. However, enemy level 2 invades are rare but they can still happen. If you do plan invading Deceive is a level 2 must.

Clear Speed Lv2 Deceive vs. Jack In The Box

Video Here

At level 3, you want to get Two-Shiv Poison for the perma slow (E's passive) when you gank, and a second point in Jack In The Box or Deceive is useless.

At level 4, I normally get a 2nd point in Deceive so that it is easier to position myself in the lane when I gank. There are special ways to gank lanes which I will discuss in the "Pathing and Ganking" section.

At level 5, if I'm able to position myself in lanes with ease, I'll just max Two-Shiv Poison to maximize my damage. If I'm still having problems positioning myself in lanes, I will put more points into Deceive. I max put 3 points in Deceive because you as able to reach any part of the lane with 3 points in Deceive. If you are having problems getting into a lane with your Deceive because you are not traveling far enough, this video shows you how to travel far into a lane with ease with a couple special spots: Play Video
More spots here.

I'm going to explain the alternatives and explain why I pick the runes that I do.(unknown embed type) Dark Harvest vs. Electrocute
I use Electrocute because it is a very strong early and mid game and can help you get the lead early.
However, Dark Harvest is a late game rune and is great in teamfights. If you don't get a lead early you should get Dark Harvest. Just to show you guys how great of a late game Dark Harvest is, here is a video showing how great Dark Harvest CAN be if you are afk farming: Play Video .[/br]

Also Electrocute sync well with shaco's kit. Ignite proccs Electrocute. Here are some more interactions with electrocute that are cool. Play Video Predator is fun but in ranked it is not that good to use. It still has a pretty long cooldown and it provides a lot less damage than dark harvest and electrocute. The movement is not needed in my build because I am building Mobility Boots.

Cheap Shot doesn't do a lot of damage and shaco will procc is 1-3 times in a fight and it is not a lot of damage.

Taste of Blood shaco doesn't need healing.

Sudden Impact. Shaco has a stealth and he can procc Sudden Impact super easily. Also It grants 10 lethality and 8 Magic Penetration for 5s which is a lot!

Zombie Ward This is useful with duskblade but Eyeball Collection gives more damage and the wards aren't that important.
Ghost Poro takes to much time, provides no stats and it is easy to procc it when you don't want to.

Ravenous Hunter Shaco does not need Healing.
Ingenious Hunter My build only uses yoummu's ghostblade so the active item cdr is sup optimal.
Relentless Hunter MS is good on shaco and it allows you to position yourself a lot better in lane with ganking, roaming and applying pressure.


Secondary Trees
There are 3 main trees that I have seen shaco mains go Inspiration, Precision and Sorcery. I like precision because of the attack speed which is very important to shaco because it an attack speed champion. Also my damage doesn't have any attack speed items so it is best to go precision for my build.

Inspiration
Precisionprovides the most dps to the enemy champions and helps with clearing.
Overheal Shaco does not need healing.
Triumph My build focusing on One Shotting people so even though the 15% health back is nice after a kill, it is not necessary while you can be taking other runes to optimize your damage.
Presence of Mind Shaco does not need mana.
Legend: Alacrity Attack speed helps with dps and clearing and since my build does not have any attack speed, you need this attack speed.
Legend: Tenacity Tenacity is useless on shaco, he goes in and out of a teamfight. If he gets hit by a spell, he's dead anyways.
legend:bloodline Shaco does not need healing.
Coup de Grace It's a free 10% extra damage onto enemy champions that are low health. Most of the time you will be killing low health targets.
Cut Down You are One shotting adcs, not tanks so cut down is useless on shaco unless you are against 4 tanks, you should probably get this.
Last Stand This is a risky rune, I don't think that it is worth the risk.

At the first or second back, you should have Tiamat.

I normally build Mobility Boots after.

And then I build duskblade which is shaco's strongest power spike and shaco's damage becomes stupidly overpowered.

Ravenous Hydra vs. Titanic Hydra
These items are both very good on shaco but [Ravenous Hydra]] gives you the needed sustain in the mid-late game depending on when you buy it. Titanic Hydra can reset your auto attack similar to nasus's siphon strike
Ravenous Hydra is good

Jungle Item?

Poacher's Dirk?

Tiamat

Here are some these routes with box placements: Play Video If you want to know how to gank here are some general tips on how to gank: Play Video .