He's funny and enjoyable to play, but I feel more like moral support to my team than useful. Dark harvest was pretty nice, but I'm still trying to figure out what summoners to use, because flash is great but no one takes a flash shaco as serious as a ignite (...?) Shaco. Any advice shaco mains? (Mind you, I got m3 on him by cheesing with shaco support at the start of preseason, wasn't always the best thing but was fun and got me an S-)
zenkai45112 votesFirst off https://www.reddit.com/r/shacomains/ is a better place for this (I frequent here often, and so do many high elo Shacos)
but i'll give you a rundown on some things. For Jungle Shaco Smite/Ignite ( once your comfortable) Smite/Flash ( if you don't feel comfortable with Shaco yet)
For Runes Dark Harvest with Sorcery, or Electrocute with Sorcery or Precision, or you can take inspiration second to get stopwatch, that works too ( less killing ability though)
You're jungle clear is very important, Shaco has a nice clear because you can have his boxes tank, what I do is put 3 boxes on blue, and 1 box near gromp, take blue put another box near gromp E the Gromp into my 2 boxes and you'll have 75% + health still and you should be fine from there. ( You're starting items should be machete and bead so Tiamat is cheaper)
If you go Dark Harvest, after taking Red, take the scuttle and then look for a gank, if there's no gank open while you have Dark Harvest up, take Raptors, an try and get Tiamat. Once you get Tiamat just keep clearing camps and looking for ganks when you have Dark Harvest/Electrocute up.
Ganks are pretty simple, but some tips for ganking are
Other than that, there's not much else to say, Shaco isn't very mechanically difficult, the difficulty comes from your decision making and foresight which can win or lose you the game.
Have fun with Shaco Sir/Madam
WarHero542 votesIf you want to try Top Shaco here is my guide AP Lethality Shaco
KBlazeBall2 votesLearn the Bot and Top lane "long jumps" (and other mechanical tricks) This guy can help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7IwrNVlq2s
xelaker1 votesdon't be the guy who neglects to take flash because he kind of has one in his kit...
zenkai45111 votesI mean, every high elo Shaco player ( that I know of) doesn't take flash, you really don't need it.
xelaker1 votes"high elo" that's like .4% of the league population when it comes to maining shaco...
zenkai45111 votesOk? There's still no reason to take Flash on Shaco if you're comfortable with him. I can even change what I said to " Almost every Shaco main I know of doesn't take Flash " and it would still be true. He doesn't need it, and not taking Ignite on jungle Shaco really hurts your kill pressure.
Gildarzt1 votesflash can do the same than ignite and prevents a mistake.
Gildarzt1 votesexcept shaclone, chinesse shaco, a guy that i cant say his name because is in chineesse caracters, every shaco in the game put flash sometimes.
Depend of match up and flas is, by far, the best summoner spell in the game, flash never is a bad option.
Ugly Bastard1 votesWell I am a bit late to the party, but here I go. People take ignite on shaco for better ganks on early game; its not that you don't need flash (and yeah flash is indeed the best summoner spell in the game)., its just that ignite helps you secure early game kills which exponentially increases your one shot potential on early/mid game. Shaco is that kind of champion that if he goes ahead he can snowball games very easily. That's pretty much the reason they get ignite.
Gildarzt1 votes8 months, ignite was buffed... yeah, you come late to the party dude
