New ways to tell a clone shaco from the real one!

AnataBakka··6 votes·7,719 views

I had previously tested it with Illaoi's E. Then with Morderkaiser's R, and it took me a lot of time to remember about shaco. The ones mentioned above are decoys. They're not really champions and that's shown in the different interactions. Zed may be able to ult them, you may put exaust on them, but some interactions are different, from decoy to champion.

First of: Black Cleaver. Simply, black cleaver won't stack on the clone video (sorry for the audio, forgot to enable it when i made the video :p). Cleaver does stack on the real shaco tho, so you can look at the debuff or better yet at the shield icon that appears on the champion model to tell them apart. By taking runaan's with the adc the job is even easier.

Second: Bork. Bork deals a 60 maximum damage against decoys. So, if you attack both shacos you might notice a big difference in damage (if their hp are high enough). After thinking for a bit this isn't a really good way to notice the difference since the clone gets dealt passively 50% more damage. Since bork deals a maximum damage, you'll deal more bork damage to the real shaco than at the clone. So let's change this: Don't buy bork, because it will make you harder to tell the clone shaco from the real shaco.

Third: Tham. All tham's abilities apply his passive stack (the fishy). His basic attacks apply on the clone, so that's not good. But his q doesn't! So just q one of the shacos and if the passive stacks, then that's the real one. If it doesn't then the real one is the other one.

Fourth: Illaoi. Illaoi's E cannot grab the spirit of decoys (maybe because they don't have any), so if Illaoi E's a shaco he is able to tell which is the real one.

Fifth: Garen will put his ult's passive on the real shaco if he did a lot of kills in the last minutes.

To be continued...: There may be more i don't know yet, i'll do the tests and update this list up!

PS: These are ways to tell them apart after shaco ults, not before.

8 Comments

AR URF3 votes

play Vayne and attack the one that has a circle around it from her w.

AnataBakka3 votes

aye, happens the same with other abilties. I think stacking press the attack on it works the same

Ok sure but why1 votes

tham

But I'm pretty sure the clone Shaco has lower stats than real Shaco

AnataBakka1 votes

the stats are the same! (it would be way too easy to tell the 2 shacos apart by looking at the stats) the only difference is that when you attack them the shaco clone gets dealt 50% more damage, so that by itself helps tell the shacos apart.

with my methods though you can tell them apart just by attacking one of them. if the first shaco you attack stacks cleaver then that's the real one

miniquandt1 votes

I think with Tahm, if he already has stacks on Shaco, then shaco ults, the clone wont have tahm's passive stacks. (this could have been a bug from a while ago, it may not happen anymore)

AnataBakka1 votes

that's not really a bug since the clone shouldn't keep shaco's icon stuff. same happens with vayne w (comment below) and most other abilties.

still yea, it's a very good way to tell them apart. i don't understand how pinkward can still play it with all these ways xD

The Deckowner1 votes

Pretty sure the most efficient way is to compare their stats.

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