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Spells:
Ghost
Garrison
Ability Order
Backstab (PASSIVE)
Shaco Passive Ability
Introduction



Please note that this build does not give you much/any survivability but if you play it safe you'll be dishing out a whole lot of hurt.




I start off with a
Boots and Kage's Lucky Pick, which gives decent AP and gold per 10 seconds. It isn't going to work miracles, but we're building it into something else later so in essence you will receive quite a bit of extra gold from it. Early game you'll be dishing out quite a bit of damage - enough to keep enemies at bay. Then we upgrade our boots into
Mobility Boots and rush
Rabadon's Deathcap. We follow up with:
Alternatives



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This offers both CDR, AP and a good active. Don't forget to use the active.
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Cheap item while offering good CDR and AP. Don't overlook this item, even though it builds into better ones. We take this because it's cheap, and offers what we need at that time.
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Excellent item giving us some survivability, AP and a good passive.
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Lastly we'll want to get this, to get some magic penetration going. The extra AP can't hurt either.
Alternatives
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instead of
Fiendish Codex: Lich Bane works insanely well with
Deceive, so giving up a bit of CDR seems okay to me. I don't use this generally, mainly because I don't want to rely on my
Deceive since we're squishy. Also,
Lich Bane's aura only shows on you, not on your clone.
-
instead of
Void Staff: If you get
Lich Bane, get this one aswell. It's simply a great item to boost your survivability while also giving an extra damage dealer when you
Deceive in.
Rush






Early game go for 2x



How I play Shaco in Dominion
I have to be honest: I suck using Shaco in Summoner's Rift. I tried Shaco as soon as Dominion was released, since I love Shaco's style. Such a fun and deadly champ to play!
I play Shaco defensively, rather. There's simply not enough survivability to go ape**** on your enemies. Annoy them with



If you take




Places a Jack in the Box at given location, which will fear and damage nearby enemies
Place your

Place them on friendly Capture points aswell, or around, interrupting enemies when they want to channel the takeover. When running, always throw one down where you're going. It may trigger in time to annoy them and save your life.
This build doesn't really focus on using





Be opportunistic, and only pick out targets you know you can kill.
The damage on this skill is insane, its usage animation is quick and the cooldown is medium (with CDR: 13 seconds turns into 9 seconds). What else would you wish for? This build is built around this skill. Why? Because it halves the health of







This is just to top things off. This works so well it's not even funny anymore. The reason I don't go for the


- Only send in clone. I usually only send in my clone. It's fun to see the group start bashing on your clone and see it explode right into their faces. Great initiation!
- Deceive Deceive as in trick them. When running you can use it, however I'd not recommend it. Sometimes I let my clone run up the lane, and I walk parallel to him in the pathway above the lane (when bot). When he gets attacked and dies you can
Deceive in to finish them off, since the clone should have done considerable damage on death.
- Lure Using the clone, you can lure your enemy to your group waiting in the brush, or to yourself.
- Stupid enemies? Sometimes I place him in the lane the enemies may come from while I'm taking their capture point. Of course, only you can take a capture point and any non-stupid enemy would know who to attack, but for some reason only the sight of him being there makes them reconsider. Only use this when the clone was already out for another purpose - don't call him up just for this (unless you know they're insanely stupid).
Possible attack sequence, when you're not taking
Lich Bane

Possible attack sequence, when you are taking
Lich Bane

It really depends on the situation.
AP Shaco's role
I play Shaco as a taker/defender/capturer. I know this is a bit vague, but it depends on the situation. I usually go solo bottom lane. I'll go into each role and how it can work for you.
You should have read Dominion Guide Role and Teamwork to get a good idea of the roles.
Jack In The Box positions
Red dots represent suggested places to place the boxes. The yellow dot represents the place where I've gotten the best results (assuming you're blue team), since I usually go bottom lane. I usually make sure to have atleast 4 boxes set up there, but 2 is enough to lure someone into the brush. When they have/are taking the tower, they'll come for you since you're 'trapped'. Just stick your head out the brush, and go back in.
Hallucinate when they're coming to the brush. In the brush they'll be met with the boxes, and both of you. Panic ensured!
Deceive out, or kill them. Easy to get double kills this way, so give it a go.
The first kill you see there shows the power of
Jack In The Box, and my favorite position to place them. As you can see I got my
Rabadon's Deathcap and
Deathfire Grasp so that's a good amount of AP already. I don't know what items
Akali built there, but it sure as hell wasn't magic resist.
The second kill there shows how I like to use my clone. Of course it wasn't a hard kill, but it's about the way I picked it up. The clone died in his face and I could pick up the kill with
Two-Shiv Poison doing tons of damage.
I play Shaco as a taker/defender/capturer. I know this is a bit vague, but it depends on the situation. I usually go solo bottom lane. I'll go into each role and how it can work for you.
You should have read Dominion Guide Role and Teamwork to get a good idea of the roles.
- Defender Even though Shaco is so squishy, he's a decent defender. When they come for your tower,
Garrison it at the right time and
Two-Shiv Poison someone. Also make sure beforehand to have some boxes set up. If you're getting focused, which will most likely happen,
Deceive! From here you have two options: damage someone. In this case you'll die. Other option is to run, but they'll start taking the tower. Funny enough, I usually damage someone. This is because the tower will start to focus them again and by now I hope to have some backup coming for me. Usually I survive.
- Capturer The role Shaco fits best on paper. You can roam around and take the undefended towers.
Deceive out when they're coming for you. This is a good role even for AP Shaco, but I don't usually fulfill it since we already have a good capturer in our team. That won't stop me from taking stuff, though, when the bottom lane is safe.


Red dots represent suggested places to place the boxes. The yellow dot represents the place where I've gotten the best results (assuming you're blue team), since I usually go bottom lane. I usually make sure to have atleast 4 boxes set up there, but 2 is enough to lure someone into the brush. When they have/are taking the tower, they'll come for you since you're 'trapped'. Just stick your head out the brush, and go back in.






The second kill there shows how I like to use my clone. Of course it wasn't a hard kill, but it's about the way I picked it up. The clone died in his face and I could pick up the kill with

I take
Ghost and
Garrison. I love
Garrison since any tower diver will have to think twice when you've used this. I basically take
Garrison on any champ I play.
Alternatives
Ignite Because sometimes someone runs off on low health.
Flash This can work well with
Deceive, but I generally think
Ghost is more important.




Alternatives




This is getting rather TL;DR so I'll finish up. This is still a game, and I don't know about you but I play games to have fun. There's no point in playing a game where you'll only rage. Don't insult others, be nice, helpful and considerate when others aren't doing so great.
Shaco is the most fun I've had in playing a champion, and I hope you will too. I hope you like the guide, and I'd love if you'd place a comment showing your appreciation or disapproval. Sorry for the wall of text.
Shaco is the most fun I've had in playing a champion, and I hope you will too. I hope you like the guide, and I'd love if you'd place a comment showing your appreciation or disapproval. Sorry for the wall of text.
7 October 2011
5 October 2011
4 October 2011
3 October 2011
2 October 2011
- Tried out a few things and changed the build accordingly. This slightly different item build is cheaper (about 2k), gives the same amount of AP, gives more health and doesn't waste any CDR which is at 34% now.
- Changed summoner spell
Ignite to
Ghost. It's generally more useful.
5 October 2011
- Removed Hextech Sweeper as alternative item option, not because it's bad but because its CDR is 10% instead of the 15% for which I put it in there.
- Thinking about and trying out a new revision of the build. The current build is really good, but I'm trying to see if I can squeeze
Rylai's Crystal Scepter in there.
4 October 2011
- Added a video showing some of the uses of
Jack In The Box and
Hallucinate. Also added a Phreak quote in there, for your reading pleasure.
- Added the Dominion section which explains Shaco's role.
- Added
Jack In The Box position map.
- Moved
Void Staff behind
Deathfire Grasp and
Morello's Evil Tome as people don't usually start to build magic resist early on. We love the CDR we get earlier though. This change I made due to personal experience.
3 October 2011
- Changed the wall of text to something more readable.
- Added the extra abilities bar in the Skill sequence section
- Overhauled Pros/cons section
- General readability improvements
2 October 2011
- Initial version of the build.
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