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Shaco Tank - You can't kill me, but i can kill you

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ayy lmao nice build m8 i carry from bronez to mastoer wit dis build verri nice great suceesses

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Voted -1

*Buys or * Now you can't do squat.

This build suggests using to fulfil a role that is better fulfilled by many other champions. You suggest him to go into a lane where it is better fulfilled by many other champions.

On a normal team composition, taking this build is a waste of space.

Also, looked at your stats on Lolking. Surprise, surprise, you have a lot of losses in your match history for .

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chillax, guys. lets just move on... no point beating a dead horse.

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I assure you it matters. Else I wouldn't have brought it up.

Your elo indicates the skill level which you are playing at.

So yes, you were playing against ultimate noobs ALL SEVEN TIMES in that screenshot. Something that works at 800 elo will probably not work at 1600 elo. Hell, something that works at 1600 elo might not work at 2000 elo, which is where professional players are at. Your argument that you played it in ranked proves nothing, unfortunately.

I'm on NA. The other two 'laggermeister's are not me. I don't have a EUW account, but if I make one, I'll let you know. And then I'll kick your a** using any typical mid laner.

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Yea? and? I dont play many ranked games, but I did some to show you that it does work.
Btw that is cause when I started playing LoL, and became 30 I did many ranked games and I dident really care for the stats of it then. So you want to prove your point where? Its not about my elo, but about the build. You by any means have any rankings on ur name at all?? cause it sure isent on lolking. And do u have a acc on EUW? Then I can show you that it works fine.
Want or not?

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wrote:

http://www.lolking.net/summoner/euw/22257580

I'm just gonna reveal that you're at 800 ELO and have a 28.6% win rate with .

My dreams.... ruined!

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http://www.lolking.net/summoner/euw/22257580

I'm just gonna reveal that you're at 800 ELO and have a 28.6% win rate with .

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Oh yeah that just reminded me. Where the hell are your Greater Mark of Insight? That just practically confirmed your build as unviable. If anyone suggests reporting, I might as well report the upvotes, because those are the real trollvotes.

As for why tank Shaco doesn't work, HalcyonHS already mentioned a huge chunk on that. I'm going to add a few things:

1. Look at Shaco's kit. He doesn't have CC. That makes him a bad candidate for building tank. Whatever you might say in defense of that, is invalid. You can't stop enemies from killing your teammates. Once they realize you're going full-on tank, they'll just ignore you and kill your whole team, and guess what? You can't do anything about it. That's the exact same reason why I downvoted a tank Katarina guide. Tank Shaco can't even split push well because of no damage.

2. Even when I take your build into consideration as a tank one, it is no good. Needs CDR.

3. I doubt you're going to win many matchups on mid lane as Shaco. Shaco farms badly and can only win against opponents who are squishy, melee, and don't have sustain, eg Katarina.

4. Do NOT ever use your victories to justify your build. It simply means you were playing against bad opponents. And then you're guilty by implication of being at their level.

Scroll up a bit and you will see how I coverd that chunck that HalcyonicHS posted in, read that 1st plz. Then does not need , Please stop trolling me, just cause I dident pick any runes that you got on your build, doesnt mean it will fail. cause it doesnt.

1. If you read what I sended to HalcyonicHS, then you will know what I said about the kit of . And stop being in your own little world please, where ur always right, no cc skills on ? he has a for fear and for slow. AND Laggermeister, noone thinks a will go build tank so they will attack me most of the times. When they realise it, they might ignore, but thats with ALL TANKS, take noone will hit him 1st, will they? so that argument is invalid.

2. You don't always need CDR, and u will have a support in almost all ranked games who can provide that, but its not needed for a tank that much. + You can take 2nd blue buff to help you with CDR IF it's needed so much.

3. You doubt it. but infact ur wrong, I've played against ranked katerina, mordekeizer, morgan, , , , and so on. I've won almost all of those. cause you can't win evrything. You can only doubt.

4. Look at this. http://i49.tinypic.com/64qb74.jpg . PLEASE, take a good look at it.
And tell me again if I was playing against noobs. You wanna tell me, I played 6 times in a row against noobs in ranked, and 1 time against good ones? And 1 time in normal game against noobs?
Take another look at my DMG dealt, and then at my DMG taken. Dont tell me 's DMG will be sacreficed by playing a tank build. Can you please try this build and if it goes wrong tell me what went wrong. maybe I can help you change your mind about tank.

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I can see what you were going for, but Shaco just isn't meant to be played as a tank. That, and only having ap runes doesn't make much sense

Who told you is not made to be played as a tank. No where does it say "shaco is not made to be a tank". Alot of people play as ADCarry, his build say AP his skills say AP, does anyone object? No. So why cant a play tank? Btw flat AP runes work for the 1st kills thats why you get flat AP, to get dmg/burst and achieve 1st blood. What will give you +400g. Buy boots and some hp/mana pots or kill some creeps get 475 and buy . It makes sense cause with this build you want mid dominance on early game, I never said you NEED to buy the runes, u can use ur own, variate a little, see what works best for you.

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Please evryone before you comment, tell me IF you did or not try the build ingame? if you did, and it failed, tell me what went wrong, I could help you with it.

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You've basically sacrificed everything for early game 'dominance', particularly runes, which is doubtful to be very helpful later on.

As a mid-laner, where Shaco does not have a constant supply of blue buffs or the power of surprise, you are basically required to get a few lucky kills in the first few moments of the game - which will be difficult to come upon, even with your AP runes, because your opponents will act much more conservatively very quickly and not give you that opening, not to mention your ganking ability is severely reduced due to being able to track you much more easily.

Without those kills, you will end up being constantly punished and outzoned by your opponents as time further goes on - you simply won't have enough poke. Not to mention you are now building towards a tanky Shaco, sacrificing your damage.

A tanky Shaco simply doesn't dish out enough damage, even with criticals. Not only will you be pushed back in the midlane, your performance in teamfights will be subpar - you basically have a somewhat decent dps and a somewhat decent tanking ability - and somewhat decent isn't good enough. Even your abilities don't match: You can stealth into teamfights, which is missing the point as a tank, since that won't draw enemy fire. Jack as a CC is decent, while Two-Shiv poison will lack that oompf, and while useful for pursuing, is just there otherwise. Hallucinate's barely useful - you're drawing fire away, and screaming at them not to retarget you - unless you're escaping from a lost teamfight. Which is missing the point.

Your build is way too middle of line. It's the Mario, decent, but hardly useful in many areas. Nice concept, but it simply doesn't work.

Downvoted.

I dont think you have tried playing with this build, cause I almost NEVER end on 0 mana. even without blue buff. You get 1st blood, get boots and pots. Done.
My ganking is almost nothing reduced cause you are you will suprise them always with your , unless they place wards then it will be harder, but never impossible, cause it's like a flash, even if they can see you, you will be next to them to strike them.
Now I clearly know that you have not try the build by saying I sacrefice dmg, cause if you would have tried you would see that u will do alot dmg. And you maybe forgot that shaco has Two-Shiv Poison that he can trow atleast 6 times on the very beginning of the game. If you spend alot mana, and you dont have a jungler, then take blue buff on begin. Place 4 boxes. Starting from 1:00-1:05 those 4 boxes will do enough dmg to kill the blue buff and you finish the minions to get lvl 2! even before the other mid player. BUT make sure noone of your teammates will be around blue, to share the exp, otherwise you will not become lvl 2 after u did blue golem.
Ok, now the skills! deveive makes you escape nasty situations, with u can tank till ur very last hp! then get out of it so you will die less times in team fights.
is a good cc skil, you jump in and drop a box or behinf the target if its alone so it cant run away wile your team ganks him.
will slow your target! so evryone can reach to him/her, OR to slow so he/she wont chase. It's cooldown is not high. Enough said.
is I have to say a not perfect skill, cause it does not show ur buffs! But its good for pushing turrets solo! late game I can push a turret solo full hp with clone tanking it 1st then me. Enemies might hit your clone, clone dies, they waste time on him + it explodes 600+ dmg on lvl. 16.

End Discussion with you, my good sir. Please dont say "it simply does'nt work" if you havent tried it. If you will try the build, or join a game with me I can show you, and specially for you 3 non-believers I played 6 ranked games with shaco today, to show you the scores. Here http://i49.tinypic.com/64qb74.jpg .

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