Help: Support Shaco

DeadlyQuestion·10/14/2014, 2:31:41 AM·1 votes·740 views

I'd like some real tips on how to properly support shaco. This is for emergency use, I want to be good with Shaco in all aspects of the game, but sometimes you're stuck with supporting. Yes, I can just learn a support champ, I'm fairly competent, but Shaco still has a good kit considering support. How do you guys support him? What typically do you start item-build wise? Do you take damage masteries or utility for the gold? AP Shaco is fun, but it seems AD does so much better, so much more quickly: Would you take him AP in a support lane?

8 Comments

Foxymillion10/14/2014, 2:36:24 AM1 votes

shaco is a terrible support never use him his boxes or only useful in bushes and he has no heal not to mention hes an early game champ meaning if you don't get your adc fed in around 20 minutes than your basically useless

TreasonousSnail11/4/2014, 4:37:20 AM1 votes

The best tip on a support shaco is to just say noShaco

Dunderflump11/4/2014, 4:40:26 AM1 votes

Level 1 boxes. Give your jungler 2 for his buff and take your ADC to lane. Set up boxes in bottom bushes and try to force an early fight. Max E.

Spellthief's doesn't work with box damage so it's bad. Pick coin or the other thing.

To initiate: Q -> Box under them -> begin autoing for slow -> E

crippler3811/12/2014, 8:07:52 PM1 votes

take wight or mini golems level 1 if your jungler lets you, give him a box to help him out with buff and then take the wight or golems yourself, this means you will scale with your adc instead of your adc getting too far ahead of you and then start maxing your e, plant boxes behind your waves and in jungling paths in order to not get ganked, place them in places where enemies might walk but are not too obvious.

next focus on zoning the enemy with high ap shivs, an athens early is really good for this, the mana regen lets you spam the poke. keep your jungle warded and focus on zoning out the enemy so your adc gets fed, don't take all the kills but minions > champions in the long run so kills don't really matter all that much

finally in the late game you exist to help zone and to aid in ambushes, I would get something like a void staff or deathfire to max out your cdr and just go nuts with the shivs. also get a sight stone early on like all good supports, your support gold item is up to you but focus on ap and utility, also maybe a rod of ages or similar high hp item if you can afford it so that you can have two semi tanky decent damage and slowing shacos, one of which has an 8 second flash

Drunk Rummate11/12/2014, 8:18:24 PM1 votes

dont support with shaco