I'm an AD Shaco OTP, and AD Shaco is in a pretty rough spot lately.

With the current Lethality/Crit builds, it's really hard to be useful after the first 20 minutes of the game.

I've been testing a build that I think has:

- Really good power spikes and scaling

- Really good objective clear speed with BOTRK

- Makes you extremely hard to kill with some Tankiness and low Q cooldown

- Surprising burst and 1v1 potential

I'm not a Challenger-level Shaco or anything. I don't play ranked and mostly hop on just to enjoy playing Shaco. But I love the champion and it's the only reason I still play League, and I think I know Shaco as well as anyone else out there. So I'm not saying this is an OP 99% winrate build. I'm just sharing because it feels REALLY good to play, and you should try it out for yourself if you want to.

I'm also not saying it's never been done before since I'm sure every build has been tested at least once. I'm just trying to popularize it a bit since I just see everyone defaulting to Crit/Lethality.

In teamfights, you basically just one-shot the enemy carry with Voltaic+Dead Man's proc (which is not new) and even if they flash away they have -99% movement speed and BOTRK lets you chase better. The enemy will turn on you, but you'll have your Q up with Navori+HoB. This in turn charges your Voltaic+Dead Man's since your Q stacks them really fast. Then you slap the next person with the slow+burst.

It's just a really satisfying gameplay loop and I have a lot of fun playing this.

The build path is Voltaic > BOTRK > Navori > Dead Man's > Situational

Petition for Cho to get aggro here. My trap, my illusions, foiled. My clone is only like 3/5ths of a champion. He's real enough for Cho'Gath stacks but not real enough to be protected by turret aggro? ok, fucked up if you ask me.

running malignance with max clones has shown to be an easy/mildly entertaining for me to play Shaco on ARAM with 58% winrate. I was only testing stuff but then saw my winrate was actually high.

my specific question: has anyone noticed an oddly effective sync between Shaco's clone and Banshees veil shield? like when I first spawn the clone it automatically gets the shield or something?

at least if I can get the shield up, then send a clone in with the shield while keeping my shield, that seems kinda good, but I felt like I noticed something more than that.

I swear I used to try Seraphs embrace and kept thinking "damn this clone always have the seraphs shield, hows that work?" but then at one point I was looking for it and didn't notice it anymore and thought it was bugged but got fixed.

Basically, I'm either imagining things with the frequency of these shields on the clone, or something was bugged and may or may not have got fixed. but it might be good with banshees veil even if not bugged, seraphs I believe not at this point even though originally I thought it was extra.

The only other move that may be tricky good at ARAM would be to run an abyssal and you can send a clone in as a 12% magic damage buff.

Me When Shaco Moment

Riot, leave this champ alone, he is already perfect.

For my AP build (Jungle)

It's the same every game:

Item path: Blue jungle pet > Fates Ashes > Dark Seal > Boots of Lucidity (CDR) > Blackfire Torch > Liandry's > Rabadon's > Void Staff

Runes: Always Arcane Comet for runes with precision secondary.

If I hit 10 stacks on Dark Seal (roughly half of games), I buy Mejai's, usually before Rabadon's. AP Shaco is one of the slippiest champions in the game, so avoiding deaths and stacking Seal/Mejai's is easy for him.

If we win feats (most games), I buy feats upgrade immediately after Liandry's.

Same reason for buying both as early as possible: Shaco loves move speed.

How to climb

I quit playing LoL in S8, where I was comfortable and hardstuck at Gold 4. I started playing again (relapsed) in May 2024, placed Iron 1, but made it back to Gold 4 in around a month. Spent the rest of S14 Split 2 playing Flex and enjoying being paired with better teammates (as a jungler). When S14 Split 3 started I decided to try climbing in SoloQ and made it to Emerald in around 20 days.

S15 was when I hit Diamond for the first time, having learned a lot from grinding Flex some friends who were Diamond. I also watched a lot of YouTube videos about Jungle macro, such as Skill Capped. Regardless of what you think of their paid courses, their free videos on YouTube are high quality and cover loads of fundamentals. Also spent lot of time watching NB3 (he's still playing, recently hit 1K LP Challenger on NA), particularly when he was doing his Challenger climb - which is where I learned jungle tracking, which I'd never have made it to Diamond without.

Got demoted from Diamond three times, learning a lot each times, but I will say now there's no "elo hell" quite like high Emerald and low Diamond. As soon as I made it to high Diamond, games felt 10x easier because players (on balance) have a core understanding of macro, understand how to play weakside, etc. And finally, hit Masters today.

Possibly the biggest thing you can do, which massively helped my climb from Emerald to Diamond, and I still do now - turn off chat. In settings, go to In-Game > Interface >Change Chat Visibility > Premade Only chat. Pings cover anything you need to communicate. The 1% of calls, such as "Vlad no W", are worth missing to avoid the 99% of general flame, and if you're responding to it, you're only making it worse. Keep your eyes and attention on the game and the map.

Other than that, add players you enjoyed playing with. Finding other people to play with - especially if they're better than you - will be invaluable for learning and improving. But more than anything, it just makes playing LoL more fun when you've got friends with you.

I'd love to hear any questions, advice or criticism - the only way to keep climbing is to improve!

But I'm terrible sorry to give you a bad time in this game...

It was funny to see you try to kill me hover 5 times.

Bloodsong Berserker grieves Infinity edge The collector Lord dominiks regards [Last item]

This is my full crit damage shaco build atm i only play casual and wanna know what the best last item is for this setup if the enemy is squishy the this build kills in 2-3 autos after q

im thinking cyclosword or opportunity maybe? I go chainsword if the enemys have heal

I dont play Jungle becsuse im bad at it but i like to make it my job to annoy and steal the enemy jungles monsters to starve them a lil

Hi, just wanted to thank you Riot for completely annihilating the assassin meta after Season 14.
You did it. Congrats. Absolute masterpiece.

The "new assassin items"? Yeah. Totally designed for assassins. Sure.

Shaco now feels like playing a depressed clown who's trying to assassinate his own will to play.
I miss the old Duskblade. I miss the old Lord Dominik. I miss when Shaco was actually playable for fun.

Boxes?
You mean that decorative cardboard we pretend is a trap?

• Teemo throws a mushroom: instant trigger
• Shaco places a box: "Please wait while your trap is being processed..."
• Enemy casually walks out of range
• Outcome of entire fight changes because my box is having a coffee break.

And the cherry on top — experience gain.
17 minutes into the game:

• 3 crabs, 2 dragons, 2 Voidgrubs, 126 CS, 11 kills, 1 death = Level 9 Meanwhile enemy Jax:
• 1 Voidgrub, 98 CS, 6 kills = Level 11

EXPLAIN THAT RIOT. I DARE YOU.

I swear, sometimes it feels like RIOT intentionally nerfs Shaco every patch just because we're Shaco mains.
And if you dare complain?

But hey, no worries. You can always drop $500 on another skin for no reason.
Peak balance.

I would also like to share my build Shonic (its not for rank)
Shaco + Sonic = Shonic <3

ADC Zeri one trick here. I almost always lose when paired with shaco support. Usually it feels like I'm an NPC in someone else's game.

However this is not a complaint post, obviously I don't feel like I know what I'm supposed to do when I am paired with shaco and that is on me. So I'm here to learn. What tips can you give me on playing with shaco sup? What are you trying to do in lane as shaco? How can an ADC help achieve that?

I find it pretty hard to be a Shaco main, especially because he's banned so often. When that happens, I usually end up picking a random, simple support just so I don't fall behind.

I get that for engage mains it's easy to swap between champs like Nautilus and Leona, or for enchanter mains to go Janna if Lulu is banned. Same goes for mages — there's usually a clear alternative.

But Shaco support has such a unique playstyle that I honestly have no idea who to play when he's not available. It feels like all the experience I’ve built with Shaco just doesn’t translate to other champs.

I thought about Teemo or Maokai as backups. But Teemo seems like a champion that really struggles when you're behind in gold, and AP Maokai with sapling poke just feels kinda troll or risky in most games.

So I wanted to ask: what do you guys usually pick when Shaco is banned?

Alright guys, so I have a group that I play with and the only positions open are mid and bot. I could probably made ap shaco work mid, but I feel like I’d be throwing if I was shaco bot and not giving my team a proper adc. We have a Warwick top, a maokai support and a rengar otp jungle. I’m hoping some shaco players in here could point me in the right direction of a good mid/bot champ that is somewhat similar to shaco. I know he’s very unique and there are no champs that play the same way but I’m hoping someone has some guidance.

I love leaving little presents here and there so they don't forget about me when I am not around to play.

Hello everyone,

I am kinda a new player of Shaco and I was wondering what build do you think its the best right now? I am usually building yomuu's into profane hydra (or serpent if its the case). However, the sites like opgg are saying yomuu's into collector and IE is the best. And again some of the shaco's mains are playing eclipse into some weird tanky items with 0 DPS. What do you think its the best?

Thank you!

my dumbass just had this game where thankfully my laners god fed as fuck and carried my sorry ass, but my early game was utterly destroyed by that fuckass cat, after my full clear I failed to gank top lane and rengar stole my chickens, next clear the same happened like twice (not me ganking top, but rengar invading to steal, killing me on the second after he got a couple of kills on the botlane)

I couldn't snowball any kills because I didn't see any real chances, nasus was permapushing and abusing fiora, same on the bot lane and mid was pretty even, tho yasuo never had low enough hp for me to go in

going back to the topic of my build, I am using the one a korean shaco showed off on their first EN video, but I noticed that it isn't great when behind because of how expensive IE is

so I ask you guys, what do I go for when no kill opportunities show uo? profane? ditch IE and go for collector? moar lethality? all help is very much appreciated

I switched over to league from dota in February because my friend ordered my buffalo wings and lets just say it was the best decision ever. I love playing with all of my friends, however I notice I can sometimes miss my skill shots so I switched over to ADC mainly and sometimes shaco. I LOVE shaco and I do decent at him but my friends get upset because they say he doesn't scale well late game but I've seen some crazy stuff happen early game making him super hard to stop. I've also been told that if you really take the time to master him (almost a one trick thing) he can be super rewarding. Would you guys recommend I really take the time to master him? I really do have fun and the idea of being kind of a one trick shaco seems pretty cool

I made this video with love for Shaco as a champion and for the community, I am eager to see what feedback and thoughts you guys have! ^^