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Shaco - Ahueahue (Back Again)





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Jungle Respawn Times
Top Priority

Dragon respawns in 6 minutes

Baron respawns in 7 minutes
Important

Blue Buff respawns in 5 minutes

Red Buff respawns in 5 minutes
Low Priority

Wraiths respawn in 1 minute

Wolves respawn in 1 minute

I really like the Talent Tree in Season 3. It gives AD casters alot of burst potential and fits perfectly with Shaco's Kit.
The mastaries are pretty standard, but I would like to add a bit more detail and Justification to a few of them.
frenzy - This mastery is perfect for Shaco. An idea of how this works is whenever you use

perseverance - Critics will frown upon this skill. Some others like me will think that the skill is practical, and some would not give a ****. My justification on this skill is that Shaco at times does have some ideal time between jungling, ganking and setting up traps. I feel like this skill will help Shaco maintain a "fuller" HP pool, which enticeses me to get this skill over

ALTERNATIVE
Personally for when I'm in the mood to counter jungle I like to take:




Because it allows me to clear the jungle faster and allow me to set my boxes.
Destruction is for backdooring and pushing power. Money from towers is always good.


This skill is for trickery, escapes and initiates. This skill in short is a spammable flash with motherf***ing stealth. Many Shaco's panic a little and think their stealth will not last long so they just Deceive and attack instantly, this is a decent move but you should understand that the effect lasts is 3.5 seconds long, you can deceive in and like the mad twisted clown you are get out of stealth by placing a box behind the enemies escape route (which will break stealth) but you will still be able to land the "special critical" on the target enemy!

These boxes are very fragile and have a terribly long and boring cooldown, the damage they deal is pretty good early game but just slack off mid-late game without ability power. The best feature of these boxes are the AOE fears, which is basically an AOE stun. When ganking, after you deceive attack the enemy place a box right infront of the enemy or behind the enemy, basically try and interpret the path he will be taking as an escape and place the box there for hopefully a fear which will secure the kill for you. Use these boxes as a map ward also 90 seconds of stealth is a great way to ward the map and control your surroundings! The sheer number of uses this ability has is limitless!
A fun trick for counter-jungling champions who start at blue is to run straight for the bush near the wraith camp and stack these boxes. Its hilarious when the unsuspecting Amumu walks in the bush, dies, gives you blue, and proceeds to suffer a slow jungle.

Use the active when the enemy flash's away, ghost's or uses some escape mechanism. You can also use it to finish off a kill. Lately I just use it to poke the enemy, pressure, just leave something for the enemy if I fail to gank a lane.

If you are pro tier. Hallucinate has a slight delay before the illusion spawns, allowing Shaco to evade damage and projectiles, including things such as Karthus's


Another use is when tower-diving, using Hallucinate will reset tower aggro from you to the clone, so if your planning on a dive, try and plan when to use his ultimate, I think the best time to use it is for escape purposes. This ultimate can also be used to tank towers when backdooring but considering how fast it dies off I question how useful it really is.
Depending on your skill level if you are able to control yourself and the clone you can also use the clone as a projectile blocker - a.k.a "Human Shield". However becareful about this, since it can be a problem when you are low on health and running away since some champions like the ever so popular Akali can "R" to your clone in order to catch up to you. It also follows you when you are doing a quick "Q" get-a-away which can foil your plan, or if you can micro the clone to the opposite side of where you

Controlling the clone is simple, HOLD ALT+RIGHT CLICK
Reminder: I will keep updating this section, adding pictures.. basically polishing it off later on, it can be quite boring to update guides.





Flat Attack damage - More damage, Faster Clear, More burst.
Flat Armor - Tank Minions and Jungle Creeps.
Flat Mres - Casters are always a pain in the *** with their spell damage, reduce it = Success.
Health Quint - Just for a bit more health, Survival is always good.
This is just standard. There are really no alternatives better than this.
(PS: I always like putting 1 crit chance rune in the reds, just so I have a better chance to surprise crit. Try it!)






Optional items can be :




I usually get a G.A+Tri, or Frozen Mallet+I.E for late.
Sometimes it will be just impossible since the enemy team has better team co-operation, but usually you can finish dragon very fast, as early as level 6!
Attempt to do dragon only when you have a Wriggles Lantern (people who run Bloodrazors.. Meh, get a Wriggles, then a Bloodrazor)

Get your clone to attack dragon first, (Holding Alt and right clicking will send your clone to where you click). Whilst your clone is tanking dragon, attack from behind (this will allow you to deal more damage!), place a JiTB where you are positioned also, it helps in increasing DPS. Finally Smite the dragon when he is low on health and a Smite will insta-kill him, this prevents people from stealing your dragon.
Reminder: Always ask your team for help when you are doing dragon! I understand that you will want to be sneaky, but if anyone catches you... your pretty much screwed. GET YOUR TEAM TO DEFEND YOU/HELP YOU, the enemy will most likely want to dodge a teamfight and let you take dragon!
Warding the map for your team can save them from getting ganked (even though a few might be blind and not see the ganker, etc.) It gives them a better chance to react to the situation.
WARDING GUIDE
For quick reference, check out the little awesome mini-map picture below

ORANGE= Most Important (REQUIREMENT)
GREEN= Important (OPTIONAL)

Oracles on Shaco, optional. I am very very tempted to add it to the item builds, however I feel that when you get it can be situational. In a good game, I rush it after I get my

You see there are Vision Wards that can SHUT YOU DOWN, they will cause you to be exposed and reveal you whilst stealth, this destroys your element of surprise and can ruin a gank/escape for you. Oracles also counter wards being placed by the enemy team, there is nothing more satisfying that making the enemy team WASTE 75++ gold for wards.
Grabing an Oracle can also counter other stealthers.. and an interesting fact about stealthers is that they are REALLY SQUISHY, so if you reveal a stealther.. they are pretty much D.E.A.D. Stealthers include: eve, akali, twitch and shaco. HOWEVER NOTE THAT SEASON 3 ORACLES HAVE A TIME LIMIT SO BUY WITH CAUTION. VISION WARDS MIGHT BE A BIT MORE TEMPTING PURCHASE IF YOU HAVE AN IDEA WHERE A CRITICAL GANKING SPOT IS WARDED.
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