Was curious how difficult people in the forums thought Shaco was. On one hand he has an amazing escape, on the other with his low HP if you are caught out you are dead. You have high burst, but if you can't kill that person outright you die or need an escape plan. His ult is amazing for dodging skill shots but you need amazing timing to match.
I have tried him a little (not much) and it requires a great deal of Jungle knowledge as well as mechanical skill to make him work.
I dont mean just getting a bunch of kills early and then yelling on your team while you lose the game, trying to preserve your KDA. To actually win games consistently with Shaco is difficult.
AP Shaco = Easier than Cho'Gath. Not easy, but not hard either.
AD Shaco = Zed level or above if you want to truly master backstab and clone proc
Mechanical skill required. Try and learn to juke when you split push. This is where shaco shines.
AD Shaco is the best shaco.
Pros
Amazing Split pushing power. End game assassin/duelist with clone. Strong back door with Clone. Decent team fighting potential when positioned correctly
AP shaco
Pros
Burst. Don't have to team fight.
he requires a bit of mechanical knowledge and thinking ahead, and he has a killer early game so you need to capitalize on that ive seen to many shacos afk farm for the first 20 mins you need to gank a crap ton. and make use of his q to use weird gank paths so that wards cant stop you such as q'ing over the walls into midlane brush then walking in to gank
