Press The Attack Shaco - The strongest way to play your Demon Jester
#What Is Attacko Shaco? Press The Attack Shaco is an attack speed oriented Shaco build. It does not use Dark Harvest or Predator but instead relies on attacking its opponent a few times, being hard to kill during that time, and dealing incredible damage. #What's the Runepage? https://puu.sh/yo6p1/ab867127f9.png
Why Overheal instead of Triumph? Overheal also gives Attacko Shaco a burst of artificial health when he engages on his target with his Hydra+Q+IE combo. It's a shield, so it doesn't increase his health for %health damage or for things like Lord Dominik's Regards. This will help him survive the 1.5 seconds needed to trigger PTA and shred his opponents.
#What Makes Attacko Shaco good? Attacko Shaco is amazing against tanks or beefier teams because against a 10k health target, he absolutely shreds it to pieces. While not having the same kind of burst against an ADC, he'll still be outputting really strong damage that gets amplified by PTA (because who doesn't want to amplify their bonus %health damage like that?
#Why choose DPS over burst? Attacko Shaco only loses in burst to Predator, unless Press The Attack is already applied, in which case your opponents are in for a world of hurt wherein the burst is stronger than that of even Predator. Yes, his burst will be slightly lower against lower health targets, but not by a whole lot. Only around 240-340 damage.
Does his clone proc its own stack of PTA? No, but it does benefit from the bonus damage of PTA and has its own bloodrazor that benefits from the bonus damage of PTA (correct me if I'm wrong)
#Let's compare
Unfortunately, it looks like Shaco's clone, for some reason, doesn't count toward DPS against a target dummy, so these numbers are slightly skewed, especially for PTAco, because there's a ton of damage in his clone
Normal Shaco opening burst: https://puu.sh/yo6eJ/895e342830.jpg Normal Shaco sustained damage: https://puu.sh/yo6cQ/262c10c3a0.jpg
PTAco's opening burst: https://puu.sh/yo6Q3/c4ae4cbf18.jpg PTAco's opening burst with Press The Attack already applied https://puu.sh/yo601/fd439086b6.png PTAco's sustained damage: https://puu.sh/yo6OQ/2b33945ec6.jpg
Predator's opening burst: https://puu.sh/yo6hl/bed3e381e2.jpg Predator's sustained damage: Is the same as normal Shaco's sustained damage -- very weak.
DH's opening burst: is about 1.5k DH's sustained burst: Is about 1.2k (I farmed up 200 stacks of DH and somehow lost the screenshots, I don't have the time to do it again right now)
Electrocute's opening burst: https://puu.sh/yoJ0H/148cd4e498.jpg Electrocute's sustained damage: Is the same as normal Shaco's sustained damage -- very weak.
#So what's the deal, if Predator and Electrocute deal more burst?
After the burst is all said and done, PTA then continues to deal tremendous damage as opposed to the sustained damage of the other two, which is the same as no-keystone Shaco's, which is, as you've seen, not so good. About only 700 DPS. Which means that if someone gets away from you with a blink, a heal, or gets shielded (which happens all the time), PTA is your best bet to continue doing crazy damage to your opponents (as seen above). Dealing lower burst damage like this but and then being able to keep on going is incredibly important to Shaco. Yes, you're dealing more burst, but then what happens when it's over? You can't fight back. You have no sustained damage to follow up your insane burst with. That's not effective.
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