Come on! You know you love him!(Except maybe you mid laners)
Shaco is a champion known for his versatility what he lacks in power he makes up for a myriad of tricks and tools to use, and often as you adapt to the enemy's play style you continue to find new tricks!

Now he's not the easiest champion, sure we can gank a lane at level 2 before a minion hits, but it's the 'jokes' we play on everyone else that define us.

So what are you opinions on Shaco?
How do you enjoy playing against/with Shaco?
What tricks do you enjoy employing with Shaco?

Any awesome Shaco moments you want to share?



I suppose I can start it off.

Shaco is quite possibly my favorite champion in the game, the only thing I enjoy more than winning or close games is playing 'spy vs spy' with enemy Shacos.

As an avid player of both AP Support and AD Jungler playstyles it would be hard for me to pick a single moment. I suppose it would be the time I got a 2v5 pentakill with an Orianna supporting me when their team clumped together into a box trap, many lulz were had.
Or maybe it's the many traps I lay as we fake getting Baron..


I have quite a few tricks I like to employ.
1. If I notice an enemy ward a bush I often bait a kill by sending my clone to "camp" in it completely turning things around for the gankers.(Quite often they'll use their ultis and hard CC cause they don't want it to 'deceive away')
2. When playing ap support I usually place wards in the bot bushes. Now this is normal and it's expected(total lane control ftw) But I take advantage of how savvy the opponent is, especially their jungler.. for this reason I set a box trap not in the bush.. but on the path they'd take to avoid it.
3. If the enemy jungler is a sustained jungler and is either slow or low hp after blue I'll lay a box trap at their wraith bush for FB.
4. I often have my team fake a baron to try to force a team fight. Depending on how desperate the enemy team is.. going for baron or our team.. I'll place spread out boxes on the retreat path in the latter case and in the enemy attack path in the former... and then grab Baron anyways. :3
5. If the enemy often gets more aggressive and appears to be getting ready to initiate a teamfight I'll step outside of vision range and bring out my clone and just start controlling it manually acting like I'm still trying to zone out.. then I intentionally slip! BAM HARD CC ON CLONE.
6. Similar to the 5th trick except the clone leads them into some boxes softening them up and CCing for the team.(pretty situational)
7. The classic AP SHACO CLONE IS REMOTE CONTROLLED LIVING AMMO do this the entire game. When they become savvy of it... walk out yourself as normal Shaco and watch them ignore you- oh you placed a box in the middle of their group and vanished. :3 *aoe fear*

I'm sure there is more I use but those are just off the top of my head. Be sure to share your tricks with me too.

Shaco is one of those junglers who is banned a lot because he is a pain to deal with early game. Honestly Shaco is really easy to deal with, one he is melee range, two if you stick together he won't be able to do much if you focus him down.

quote ssbm freak

And it's not like you're impeding me much, and you're DEFINITELY not winning any trades. 40% of their hp is clearly worth the 10 gold. :U..

As if they did that "-_-... Hell, 40% of my health is worth 100% of theirs .

Shaco is one of those characters that whenever he's on the enemy team, he's picking off everyone, laying traps everywhere, and being a massive annoyance.

When he's on your team, he stays in the jungle forever and never helps anyone do anything.

ap laning shaco is incredibly easy to counter for any support player that actually understands what he does. nidalee, lulu, morgana, lux, and soraka can all shut down his bush tactics with ease. so can one properly placed pink ward, or with just aggroing enemy minions towards the bushes so the wave naturally pushes along the brush and activates his traps. bush camping is literally all he has in lane, as it's easy to punish him for doing anything else, and it's very simple to counter.


all shaco does is punish bad players.

Has anyone noticed the qualities of Shaco players rising recently? I remember a time when every Shaco appeared to suck, likely because some pro had played him and everyone jumped on board or something. He's still one of the few champions I haven't tried, and I'd love to do so. If I was to do so, what is better, AD or AP, and why? What jungle builds are good on him? And lastly (and obviously most importantly ) does he have any decent skins?