Shaco Build Guide by NoizeKill

Introduction

Hello guys, it's NoizeKill here again, with a new guide to the troll Shaco.

I'll tell you how to build him, play him and jungle him.

Have fun reading.


NoizeKill

Why Shaco and When Shaco?

Why would you play Shaco? There are a few reasons.

// Currently the champion with the highest win rate on NA.
// 5th highest win rate in general.
// Great counterjungler.
// Does amazing early game, can still kill late game.
// He is a demon jester, come on, how cool is that?


When should you play Shaco?

// The enemy has a counterjungleable champion (a very slow one, like Maokai or Alistar).
// Team already has a tanky champion and prefers a jungler with damage.
// You like to troll enemies.
// You want to play one of the funnest and deceivous champs in League of Legends.

Runes

Greater Mark of Attack Damage: Makes Two-Shiv Poison deal more damage, and makes the early jungle easier. Also makes Deceive do more damage.

Greater Seal of Armor: Gives armor to survive in the early jungle, also makes enemies deal less damage.

Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist: Gives a big chunk of MRes for the mid/late game, where AP champions start to shine.

Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage: More AD, equal to the marks.

Masteries

I use9/21/0 masteries for Shaco. Other possible masteries are 21/9/0, 30/0/0, 0/30/0.

However, I feel that 9/21/0 is the best for Shaco. It gives ArPen, damage, attack speed, and tankiness.

Ability Explanation

: Your signature ability and the ability that makes people hate you. It makes great ganks, functions as a gap closer, gives you stealth and enhances the damage on the next attack.
The ability scales better into the mid game.

: Does amazing damage early game. You can set up traps with these Boxes, use the fear, or give vision of a small area.

: Helps ridiculously well with ganks, combined with the Red Buff, it is very hard to escape Shaco without flashing away. Also, the active does great damage early game.

: Another great ability. Duplicates Shaco and stealths him. Also makes him untargetable while duplicating. Use this for pushing, objectives and ganking.

Jungle Route

TL; DW (too long; didn't write: Blue > Enemy Red/Gank > Own Red > Wraiths > Proceed to do random ****.

Extra info: Be sure to jump over dragon/baron pit when counterjungling to prevent being seen by wards.

End

I hope you guys enjoyed my rather short guide, I'll still be working and improving this guide.

NoizeKill