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[10.22] In-Depth Shaco Support Guide

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Runes: (AP Shaco) Arcane Comet

1 2 3 4 5 6

Sorcery

Arcane Comet

Manaflow Band

Transcendence

Scorch

Inspiration

Biscuit Delivery

Cosmic Insight

Bonus:

+8 Ability Haste
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health

Spells:

1 2

Aggressive

Flash

Ignite

Items

AP Shaco Support

Starting Items

First Back

Boots

First Item (Choose one)

Mid-to-Late Game Items

End Game Items

Example Build

AD Shaco Support

Starting Items

First Back

Boots

Serrated Dirk & Tiamat

First Item (Choose one)

Mid-to-Late Game Items

End Game Items

Example Build

Other Off-Meta Builds

Glacial Augment

Mana Scaling

Attack Speed

Old School

Tanko

Ability Order AP Shaco Support (Aggressive))

1 2 3

Shaco Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

Show All

None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Nami

Extreme

Nami's sustain and poke make the lane tough. Its best to look for all in fights and preserve mana. Dark Harvest is best into this match up. E max is still preferred, but maxing W in this match up is a reasonable option.

Ashe

Ideal

Ashe's slow and R make for amazing engage. Ashe has very good control over the lane early and strong poke to get the enemy lane low.

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Ashe

Ideal

Ashe's slow and R make for amazing engage. Ashe has very good control over the lane early and strong poke to get the enemy lane low.

More Shaco Counters

AD Shaco & AP Shaco

AP :

This playstyle comes with time. Experience in both as a champion and reading the enemy are key when it comes to making plays with AP Shaco. You must know your limits! You look to control your enemy and control their decisions with your own. Positioning, Predicting, and control are the key skills to work on when mastering AP .

AD :

This playstyle is much more intuitive. If you have played other assassins then you should be able to pick up AD quickly. It is still very important to know your limits, but plays revolve around quicker decision making and picking off targets. Positioning, Decision making, and Target choice are the key skills to work on when mastering AD .

Patch Notes

Recent Change(s):

V10.14

BUGFIX: Now properly receives assist credit in takedowns where only his clone assisted.

V10.13

BUGFIX: Boxes are now able to properly activate .

V10.10

BUGFIX: Clone now properly does 60% of 's AD from items with on-hit effects.

Past Changes (Click to View)

Abilities

(Passive)

's basic attacks and deal additional damage when striking from behind. Basic attacks deal bonus physical damage and deals bonus magic damage.

provides a ton of extra damage early. To maximize damage you should look to build a habit of positioning yourself behind enemies when possible. You will find that you are behind enemies most of the time anyway as it lines up this way naturally as they run from you. If you are building AD, it is vital to apply damage in the early stages of the lane. Because it applies constantly with no cooldown, it synergizes very well with . it is a little trickier to force the bonus damage. Look to hold your E until they are low health and you are positioned behind them. While uncommon, there have been a number of situations where flashing over someone to get behind them and get the bonus damage has been necessary to win the fight

(Q)

becomes Invisible and teleports to target location. His first attack while Invisible is empowered, dealing bonus damage and critically striking if he attacks from behind.

is 's only form of escape. It is very important to use this ability only when necessary. s do not give vision of you while invisible. You can use this to your advantage against opponents that are not aware of this. When traveling back to lane, you should Q out of base to get to lane quicker. When is down, play passive and space yourself away from the enemy while you have no escape tool. and will not reveal you from stealth and should be used while invisible to trick your enemies. While in laning phase you should look to Q from out of vision into the lane and place a a short distance behind the enemies. Make a quick trade afterwards and then retreat until your Q comes off cooldown. can be used to stall for time as well. When in sticky situations or stuck in an ability like 's or 's look to Q and just sit invisible out of harms way. deals physical damage and should be maxed last in AP builds and second in AD builds.

(W)

creates a hidden animated . When triggered, it will and attack nearby enemies.

is the key to AP . Boxes should be placed nearby in small groups creating venn diagrams with the activation circles. The primary goal of these boxes are to be use as a safety net. If you are to be engaged on, you should look to lead the enemy through the boxes and turn to fight them if possible. A can be placed to block projectiles, most notably 's or 's . When engaging in lane with you should look to place a box a short distance behind the enemy before exiting stealth. Boxes can be used to trigger certain abilities like 's or 's . You should look to place boxes as often as possible (off cooldown) in choke points on the map. A can be placed under tower to tank a tower shot while diving as well. This ability does take a moment to become invisible, but once invisible the box is untargetable and cannot be damaged by abilities of any kind. Boxes can be seen and destroyed if in range of a or a player with an active . deals magic damage and should be maxed second in AP builds and last in AD builds. In certain match-ups can be maxed first in AP builds.

(E)

's Shivs passively poison targets on hit, ing their . He can throw his Shivs to deal damage and poison the target. The thrown Shiv deals bonus damage if the target is below 30% health.

has become 's primary source of damage after his most recent rework and the nerfs to his stealth life span. is an execute and 's best method of securing kills. This ability provides powerful poke when paired with and powerful burst when paired with . 's and his clone's () basic attacks apply a slow while is off cooldown. You should look to hold shiv until you are positioned behind the target and they are at low health. deals magic damage and should be maxed first in both AP and AD builds. In certain match-ups can be maxed second in AP builds.

(R)

creates an illusion of himself near him, which can attack nearby enemies (Deals reduced damage to turrets). Upon death, it explodes, spawning three mini Jack in the Boxes ing and dealing damage to nearby enemies.

is 's toughest ability to master. In an AP build it is vital to understand and properly utilize . While still important in an AD build, this ability is primarily used to dodge or block damage rather than to deal damage. When you activate the ability initially, becomes untargetable for a brief moment. This brief invulnerability can be used to dodge almost anything in the game. This includes, but is not limited to, 's , ' , 's , tower shots, basic attacks, ticks of damage over time, and many more. can be used to mislead, distract, and bait out enemies. This ability and allow good players to remain fairly safe at very low health. If activated while in your clone will appear first without revealing you. This trick can be used to place your clone in the middle of large team fights and set off a massive and strong area of effect damage. When facing some champions (like or ), should be held to dodge their ultimate abilities. The real key to effectively using your clone is to practice making its movements look convincing. When mastered, can be used to completely fool an enemy and even draw out major advantages in baiting abilities and summoners. deals magic damage and should be leveled up when possible.

Summoner Spells

(Summoner Spell) Ignite
Cooldown: 180 seconds

Ignites a target enemy champion, dealing true damage over 5 seconds, grants you vision of the target, and reducing healing effects on them for the duration.

should be taken into every lane. The kill pressure it provides is too valuable to pass up. Look to early in fights against high sustain or prior to the enemies using heal to reduce its effectiveness.

(Summoner Spell) Flash
Cooldown: 300 seconds

Teleports your champion a short distance towards your cursor's location.

is highly recommended for support. While provides very similar mobility, having allows you to look for riskier plays and still be able to escape after engaging with . If you do not take , it becomes even more vital to hold on to your for safety.

(Summoner Spell) Exhaust
Cooldown: 210 seconds

Exhausts a target enemy champion, reducing their by 30%, and their damage dealt by 40% for 3 seconds.

can be taken instead of if you do not plan on playing a carry role. This summoner provides powerful utility and extra peel for your ADC. If you are taking instead of , you must play more reserved.

(Summoner Spell) Heal
Cooldown: 240 seconds

Restores Health and grants 30% for 1 second to you and a target ally champion. This healing is halved for units recently affected by another Summoner Spell Heal.

can be useful in very select team compositions. If your team is full of high damage carries or assassins and your ADC is taking a summoner besides , you can take it to provide a little more sustain to your laning phase and your team in later stages of the game. I do not recommend taking this summoner.

Runes

should be taken into a low sustain lane. This rune page focuses heavily on poking the enemy down hard and then looking to all in. and synergize well with and . You should look to hold your until you have off cooldown. , , and scaling cooldown reduction provides 25% of cooldown reduction just from your runes. You can reach 45% cooldown reduction by building allowing you to build into items like and , two very powerful items, but not sacrificing cooldown reduction. Between , , and you do not run into mana problems after your first back.

should be taken into a high sustain lane. Champions like and will out heal your poke you can achieve with so it is better to look to burst the enemy champions down in one all in. , , and look to deal as much damage in one as possible. When paired with a or a you can deal close to 80% of a squishy target's health bar. This rune page gets to around 30% cooldown reduction in most games from and .

should only be taken when you are looking to build AD. has very powerful damage output early on and with , he can look to burst down squishy targets quickly. You should avoid building much attack speed when going this rune page as you already get so much from . , , and synergize early on and can pick up free kills when paired with another high damage ADC like or . This rune page is best taken in a lane that is outclassed in sustain or poke, the enemy champions are squishy and immobile. This page along with an AD build does very well into champions like , , , as well as other ranged squishy targets. Look to roam often with and to impact other lanes each time you .

This page focuses heavily on Utility. The massive area of effect slows that both and apply synergize very well with . can be taken when your team lacks any form of engage or pick potential. On top of that, the slows you can apply dramatically increase the peel that can have for another carry on your team. It is vital that you build early on to maximize the benefit this rune page provides you. has a weaker lane phase, but can do just as much damage late game, especially once you pick up a .

Similar to , should be taken for utility. This page opens up your ability to split push without being punished too hard. Look to pressure side lanes with when you can and take to secure objectives. The biggest issue with this page is that you sacrifice a lot of early game pressure that really needs to scale well into the game. Focus on map pressure when you can and pick up spells like or to play defensively while you can not viably split the map. or should only be selected when nothing else is available. They are not the most useful spells for but can come in handy when needed.

should almost never be taken if you are looking to improve and carry games. The rune page does very well in a high poke lane and can help keep other carries on your team alive. This rune page is mostly "for fun" but does come with some very interesting interactions. First off, can be activated by and when they are near each other. This will catch many people off guard and lead to some very interesting outplays. In addition, can be attached to immediately after you use it and it's passive will activate creating the storm around you. synergizes well with every part of your kit and can be very powerful in a team fight if you are able to get a large play off. Look to take this page when you are not focusing on being the carry but rather keeping other carries alive. Items like and can be built and you can take the summoner as well for further lane sustain.

Itemization

AP :

Start every game off with a , 2 s, and your . The alternative provides health regeneration instead of mana regeneration so do not take it for any reason. After some poking and trading in lane you should have roughly 650 gold at your first . If you are confident in your play, you should always look to grab a and as well as an . Otherwise, pick up a instead of the . The ability to scan the lane bushes for pressure is vital. If you ever back with extra gold pick up a combination of s and s as you will end up building at least 4 by the end of the game anyways. If you are able to purchase an early , do so for a strong early power spike. As the game progresses build the components of your chosen first item. This first item should primarily be decided by whether you are far ahead or far behind (how much gold you have). I strongly suggest as your core for and for . After picking up your first item you should work towards either a or depending on the enemy team composition. If you finish your first item and end up having 1600 gold still, pick up an for an early power spike, but do not complete it into a until needed. At this point, you should decide if you want to build towards a or commit to full damage. If you are the only magic damage dealer on your team it may be a good idea to pass up on the hourglass unless you absolutely need it. By late game, you should be looking to pick up a , , and finishing your if you purchased an early. can be sold for a in the later stages of the game if needed. Alternatively can entirely replace if heal cut isn't needed. An extra can be picked up if you didn't use it before purchasing .

AD :

Start every game off with a , 2 s, and your . The alternative provides health regeneration instead of mana regeneration so do not take it for any reason. After some poking and trading in lane you should have roughly 650 gold at your first . You should always look to grab a and as well as an . The ability to scan the lane bushes for pressure is vital. If you ever back with extra gold pick up a combination of s and s as you will end up building at least 4 by the end of the game anyways. As the game progresses start building both a and first. These items are extremely cost-efficient and provide a ton of early game burst when paired with . Afterward, look to finish your choice of lethality item. I strongly suggest as its passive synergizes with and allows for stronger vision control when roaming. At this point, you have a much broader item pool that you can choose from. If your team has very powerful scaling and you expect the game to last a long time, try to purchase a as soon as possible. If the enemy team has a ton of magic damage, is a very good defensive choice. You should always shoot to pick up an if you have the gold for its components at any point in the game. provides a massive power spike and can often close games out quickly. By late game, you should be looking to pick up an (if you have not already), , and finishing your item. can be sold for a in the later stages of the game if needed. Alternatively can entirely replace if heal cut is needed.

Key Items

(3100) Liandry's Torment
+ + 750 gold
UNIQUE - Madness: Damaging champions increases the damage you deal by 2% per second until exiting combat (up to 10%)
UNIQUE - Torment: Spells burn enemies for 3 seconds, dealing bonus magic damage equal to 1.5% of their maximum health per second. Burn damage is increased to 2.5% against movement-impaired units.

is by far the strongest item currently for AP . The bonus burn damage can be triggered by all of his kit and the increased damage per second makes extended trades even stronger. This item has wonderful synergy with and can help when fighting powerful tanks that would otherwise tank no damage. If you are building AP, you must pick up a at some point in the game.

(2800) Hextech GLP-800
+ + 450 gold
UNIQUE - Haste: +10% Cooldown Reduction
UNIQUE - Frost Bolt: After a 0.25-second delay, fires over 0.2 seconds a spray of five icy bolts in a cone, which each bolt dealing 100 - 200 (based on level) (+20% AP) magic damage and slowing by 65%, decaying over 2 second, to the first units hit (40 second cooldown, shared with other Hextech items).

gets most of its power by pairing it with . It can be used to effectively poke at all points in the game and does good damage to waves. is relatively cheap and both of its components ( & ) are really strong early power spikes for . When paired with the rune page, you can reach 45% cooldown reduction with only the . It provides amazing utility.

(1100) Serrated Dirk
+ + 400 gold

UNIQUE: +10 Lethality

is an incredibly valuable item early. Because already has very high damage early, when the lethality is paired with [hail of blades]], he can nearly one-shot targets at very early levels. The biggest struggle with putting together an effective AD support build is that most (effective) AD items are very expensive. The early power from allows you to snowball and afford the more expensive carry items like .

(1325) Tiamat
+ + + 350 gold
UNIQUE - Cleave: Basic attacks deal (+20 to 60% total AD) physical damage to units around your target (lower damage near the edge) (350 units radius).
UNIQUE - Crescent: Deals (+60 to 100% total AD) physical damage to units around you (lower damage near the edge) (400 units radius) (10 second cooldown).

is an incredibly valuable item early. Because already has very high damage early, when the active is paired with [hail of blades]], he can nearly one-shot targets at very early levels. provides you an auto-attack reset to further burst targets early. It is very important to get ahead when building this way.

When to go AP or AD?

AP can be played into any enemy team composition. It scales quite well and has a variety of very powerful items that can deal with almost every type of champion. If you wish to, you can definitely stick to strictly playing AP . That being said, there are a select couple of matchups that AD does much better in.

The main point you want to look at to decide if an AD build path is viable is the enemy team composition. Avoid excessively tanky enemy teams. You should never build AD into champions like , , , or as it will be nearly impossible to kill them and you will quickly fall behind or slowly become useless as the game progresses unless you are remarkably ahead. Avoid anti assassin enchanters. Champions like , , or will completely negate your engages and cause you to again fall behind or become useless.

Your second focus should be your own team composition. To put it simply, Avoid full AD team compositions. The enemy will more than likely stack armor and it puts an unnecessary disadvantage on your team.

The third and final point to check is the bot lane match up specifically. Avoid low pressure and low damage ally ADCs. The goal of AD support is to snowball and early advantage. Trying to force plays with an unwilling ADC like , , or will only result in a slow and often painfully lost game.

Once these major points have been accounted for, you can then decide if it's worth building towards AD or just safer to path AP instead. Champions listed below are the champions I would recommend building AD support into as an option:

Laning as Shaco Support

When playing the early stages of the lane, you should first decide if you are the aggressor in the lane. If you feel you have control of the lane, you should look to put out constant pressure by poking with and "gank" your own lane over the walls available to you bot side. The walls that you will use to get behind the enemy while in lane are as follows:

Blue Side (Bottom Left)

When playing on Blue Side, through the use of the Tri-Bush, you have very good potential for setting up ganks with your . Look to keep control over vision with an and s in the bush. When a comes, they can path around into the lane as you go over the wall. Blue side has many more options to engage over the walls. If you have the advantage in lane, repetitively over those locations (marked by the yellow line) and place a a short distance behind the enemy before exiting stealth (marked by the green circle). Once out of stealth, auto-attack the enemy if possible and toss a to disengage. This is the basic trade combo for Support.

Red Side (Top Right)

When playing on Red Side you have much less pressure on the lane unless pushed under your tower. If you are being shoved in constantly, look to hop over the wall near and make trades over and over. If the enemy is not pushing to tower (or they start to learn that you are coming over the wall), roam to other lanes. has stronger roam potential on both Mid and Top lane when playing Red Side. It is a good habit to start looking to roam to other lanes every time you back. Learning to read and predict the enemy's behavior is vital when playing .

General (Both Sides)

As mentioned above, the basic trade combo for support is to position out of sight, behind the enemy, place a a short distance behind the enemy, a target, and then disengage. Poking with can be good, but most of your damage will come from these repeated trades from stealth. Preserve mana for these trades and do not go in if you do not have mana for at least and either or . You should try to keep at least 2 - 3 boxes placed behind you and your lane at all times to flee to when engaged upon or ganked by the enemy . Managing your mana is important, but if you have enough mana, you should be placing every time it is off cooldown.

Stay out of vision when you can. Keeping the enemy guessing will make them play safer even when you are not in lane. They tend to be less likely to ping that you're missing or all in your ADC when you leave lane to roam. If you do not feel confident in the lane, roam often, but keep in mind that you do not want to fall behind in level. Every time you you should look to roam to another lane if possible. Keep an eye on Mid lane always! Especially when your ally Mid lane just died. Very often you can pick up free kills on the enemy Mid because they are low health after fighting. Take when it is up and not already being taken by your ally . Keep control of the river when possible and look to place a to prevent the enemy lane from rotating as easily.

Ultimately, 's laning phase depends heavily on the enemy making errors. Abuse the missteps when you can, but do not try to force plays on a smart player. Roam and scale with time. Most of your decision making will be based around setting up boxes and reacting to your enemy's positioning.

Even the best players make mistakes eventually. Capitalize on these mistakes as often as possible.

Mid-to-Late Game

Your role as support in the late game becomes primarily disengage. At this point in the game, your should never be off cooldown. Boxes should be placed in key points throughout the map and all along the lanes as you push them with your team. While your is mostly defensive, keep an eye on your boxes and engage on enemies that walk (or are pressured) into them. Your boxes should be placed in small groups unless the enemy has invested in multiple . If so, keep boxes more spread out so they cannot be cleared quickly and easily.

Key Jack In The Box locations indicated by the red dots.

has the strongest set up for objectives of any champion. It is often ideal to get to or a minute or so before it is spawned to set up around the entrances to the area. Prepping for these objectives is very safe for as well as long as he has some combination , , or off cooldown.

's is a very powerful team fight ability for both AD and AP builds. When ahead on AP , you are able to into a team or onto an enemy and use while invisible. This will place your clone in vision near the enemy. Most enemies (especially when caught up in a team fight) will immediately kill the clone, ing everyone nearby and dealing massive damage. When playing AD , your is still a very powerful ability. You should look to use it to dodge major enemy abilities and can still be placed within team fights to the enemy team and allow you to safely assassinate a target amidst many enemy champions.

Look to pick off low health targets with when you can to put your team at a numbers advantage. By late game, your will be doing a good amount of damage regardless of which build path you selected. Poke the enemies down constantly with your E when you have the mana to do so.

Tips & Tricks

General

Avoid invading with your team level one. It is very important to take Jack In The Box level one. This leaves you without Deceive to get out of a sticky situation. If your team goes to invade, just ignore it and set up boxes as normal. If your team begins you disengage, you can look to place a box if needed to assist them. It is better overall to just get your jungle a box at his buff and get to the bushes to place boxes for the level one trade.
If you did not activate your Stopwatch prior to buying a completed Zhonya's Hourglass, you can purchase an additional Stopwatch. The activations as separate for the two items and can be used to put yourself in stasis for twice is long. This trick can be used to bait out major abilities as the enemy will try to hit you with everything when your first stasis ends.
Shaco can afford to use his wards more aggressively because of how safe he can make his lane for himself and his ally. Because of this, look to ward immediately in the two locations shown below to prevent an invade.

Abilities

(Q) -

Similar to faking a Flash over a wall, you can fake a Deceive over a wall. This can be done most convincingly by running straight towards a wall and positioning your cursor behind you. Be sure to not click again when you move the cursor or you will turn around and give yourself away.
The mistake of clicking behind you mentioned above can actually be used to your advantage if you click behind you on purpose and then go over the wall.
You can look to Deceive during a fight to just simply delay. Sometimes it's better to just stay invisible while you wait for other abilities to come off cooldown.

s DO NOT reveal you while in stealth and will only show a red scanned outline.

and Scryer's Bloom, as well as the following abilities, will give true sight of you:

Shaco is able to Teleport while invisible by using Deceive and immediately teleporting.

(W) -

Boxes can be used to block most projectiles. Most notably, look to block hook abilities like Rocket Grab and Death Sentence.
Jack In The Box can activate and target turrets, inhibitor, The Nexus, dragons, and baron.
Shaco has a very powerful level one trick that can be pulled off successfully with minimal risk. Setting up a Jack In The Box at the locations shown below will almost guarantee Summoner Spells or even First Blood. You should place a box at the Blue Sentinel or Red Brambleback at 0:50 after placing your anti-invade ward. You should then rotate to the location shown below and place your first box at 0:22 and the second as soon as it comes off cooldown. You then wait until the enemy lane walks through you and place the third Jack In The Box just behind them before they activate the boxes.

Boxes are affected by crowd control. Due to this, you can use a Blast Cone to position a Jack In The Box over walls and throw them onto enemies.
Boxes should be placed in Venn Diagram like patterns so multiple activate at one time when an enemy is lead into them. If the enemy team has bought an Oracle Lens, you should spread them out to prevent clearing them quickly.
Keep in mind where you have placed boxes in the lane or on the map. If an enemy is pushed up passed a box you have placed prior, you can Deceive behind them and place another just to the side. The enemy tends to try to walk around the placed box. You can use this behavior to force them into another Jack In The Box.

(E) -

You can E -> Flash to position yourself behind the enemy champion to deal the bonus damage from Backstab. This should not be necessary often, but can make the difference in close fights.

(R) -

Hallucinate can deal massive damage and single-handedly win a team fight by using Deceive to place yourself in the middle of the enemy team, then using Hallucinate to place your clone next to you within their team. This does not reveal you and will set off your clone when the enemy kills it. fearing and dealing area of effect damage to everyone nearby.
A variation of this combo I have dubbed "The Thing" can be used to dive enemies under their turret. The process is the same except you use the turret's damage to set off your clone next to your enemy under turret and kill them while they're feared. The combo is a bit more effective than on its own because the clone will be killed regardless if it's targeted by the enemy.
Similarly to Jack In The Box, your clone can be used to block most projectiles.
If you are having trouble keeping track of Hallucinate or making it look like a real player, repeatedly press your R key while it is alive. the constant (and often jerky) movements tend to look more realistic than if the clone is just standing idle nearby.
When you use Hallucinate, you can often trick the enemy by sending your clone in the direction of safety while you standstill. The best way to make this look real is to direct the clone as if you really were it trying to survive. This can buy time for your Deceive or Two-Shiv Poison to come back off cooldown.
When Hallucinate is activated, the real Shaco appears a short distance in the direction of your cursor. Because of this, you can actually use Hallucinate to blink over thin walls around the map.

Video by Desperate Shaco on Youtube. Check out his channel for even more information and content.
After your clone reaches a certain distance from you it will teleport back to you. This can be used in combination with your Deceive to suddenly make your clone appear next to an unsuspecting enemy.
Your clone can auto-attack most everything just like a normal champion. This includes Plants, turrets, wards. However, Hallucinate is unable to target an inhibitor or The Nexus.

The Demon Jester

Crafted long ago as a plaything for a lonely prince, the enchanted marionette Shaco now delights in murder and mayhem. Corrupted by dark magic and the loss of his beloved charge, the once-kind puppet finds pleasure only in the misery of the poor souls he torments. He uses toys and simple tricks to deadly effect, finding the results of his bloody “games” hilarious—and for those who hear a dark chuckle in the dead of night, the Demon Jester may have marked them as his next plaything.

The Demon Jester

Most would say that death isn't funny. It isn't... unless you're Shaco - then it's hysterical. He is Valoran's first fully functioning homicidal comic; he jests until someone dies, and then he laughs. The figure that has come to be known as the Demon Jester is an enigma. No one fully agrees from whence he came, and Shaco never offers any details on his own. A popular belief is that Shaco is not of Runeterra - that he is a thing from a dark and twisted world. Still, others believe that he is the demonic manifestation of humanity's dark urges and therefore cannot be reasoned with. The most plausible belief is that Shaco is an assassin for hire, left to his own lunatic devices until his services are needed. Shaco certainly has proven himself to be a cunning individual, evading authorities at every turn who might seek him for questioning for some horrendous, law-breaking atrocity. While such scuttlebutt might reassure the native inhabitants of Valoran, it seems unimaginable that such a malevolent figure is allowed to remain at large.

Whatever the truth of his history might be, Shaco is a terrifying, elusive figure most often seen where madness can openly reign.

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[10.22] In-Depth Shaco Support Guide

AD Shaco & AP Shaco

Patch Notes

Abilities

Summoner Spells

Runes

Itemization

Key Items

When to go AP or AD?

Laning as Shaco Support

Mid-to-Late Game

Tips & Tricks

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[10.22] In-Depth Shaco Support Guide

[10.22] In-Depth Shaco Support Guide

Recommended Items

Runes: (AP Shaco) Arcane Comet

Spells:

Flash

Ignite

Exhaust

Ignite

Items

Ability Order AP Shaco Support (Aggressive))

Backstab (PASSIVE)

Deceive (Q)

Jack In The Box (W)

Two-Shiv Poison (E)

Hallucinate (R)

Backstab (PASSIVE)

Deceive (Q)

Jack In The Box (W)

Two-Shiv Poison (E)

Hallucinate (R)

Backstab (PASSIVE)

Deceive (Q)

Jack In The Box (W)

Two-Shiv Poison (E)

Hallucinate (R)

Threats & Synergies

Nami

Senna

Karma

Rumble

Vladimir

Varus

Xerath

Urgot

Shen

Yuumi

Samira

Bard

Aphelios

Caitlyn

Anivia

Galio

Corki

Irelia

Heimerdinger

Kai'Sa

Kennen

Kassadin

Lulu

Miss Fortune

Mordekaiser

Nasus

Neeko

Olaf

Renekton

Soraka

Sona

Sylas

Tryndamere

Syndra

Warwick

Vel'Koz

Zac

Yorick

Teemo

Zyra

Zoe

Sett

Brand

Annie

Aurelion Sol

Ezreal

Draven

Garen

Elise

Azir

Cassiopeia

Diana

Cho'Gath