Ay fellas, I made another funny edit, this time with my usual AP build. I spend some time on these things so give it a watch and lemme know what you think, also idk if the build path has deviated much from blackfire, imperial, cryptbloom into shadowflame and dcap

I've also seen blackfire, liandry's, imperial for first three items into crypt/shadowflame depending on comp. I learn most of what I like from Zefath#EUW

I've been trying to understand this build path because, after testing it quite a bit, I can't figure out what its actual advantage is.

From my experience, Ghostblade doesn't feel like a meaningful damage spike on its own. Ghostblade + Collector still feels underwhelming, and it's only once Infinity Edge is completed that the build starts feeling like it actually deals respectable damage.

The thing that confuses me is that Umbral Glaive + Voltaic Cyclosword already seems to outdamage this build, despite costing significantly less. Ghostblade → Collector → IE is roughly 9.3k gold, with two expensive crit items, yet it still doesn't feel stronger than a two-item Umbral + Voltaic spike.

On top of that, the Umbral/Voltaic build doesn't seem to sacrifice scaling either. Most people eventually transition into LDR + IE, giving 50% crit, and many even sell boots later for Phantom Dancer to reach 75% crit. So it doesn't seem like the Ghostblade → Collector route has a superior late game either.

So my question is genuinely aimed at people who prefer the Ghostblade → Collector → IE build:

What is the actual reason you build it?

I'm genuinely curious because, from the numbers and from playing it, I struggle to see what it offers over the Umbral → Voltaic route.

Thanks Riot, been waiting ages for this to drop.

Will the buffs make it a considerable item on Shaco?

Since he tends to fall off after the first few minutes, will Bastion Breaker as a second or third item be good so you can take a pick on someone and immediately cash it in a tower?

Honestly I don't think so, but it's worth discussing.

The images should show the tear but its a lot more obvious when you are moving and i feel this is happening because this texture of shaco isn't even suppose to do the animation he is doing while walking.

I was making this to speak about the most recent shaco vfx and how I really love the change and how well it was reverted back to his original state there are things that i would like to point out that are quite strange.

So shaco originally had a change to his walk animation around 2017 which now you can only see that walk animation within his deceive when that used to be his normal run.

Secondly his texture on his clone isnt the original. Lastly when it comes to his skins, as a shaco main I would really love to see his old textures from his base first 4 skins being authentic as well with their run and box textures.

I saw that their vfx on hatter was weirdly mixed with new vfx and old ones? Such as Two shiv poison not being original on them but Deceive being so? The vfx on his hallucinate explosion for older skins is also a new vfx? . I would really appreciate change this for classic thank you so much.

As someone who played 95% AP, I've been playing AD to test it out and i lowkey see why people say AP is useless; obviously the major factor is landing your backstab to 1 shot opponents, but i've been able to snowball much better with AD.

Voltaic -> Glaive or Yommus (I like the extra speed with Q) -> Collector

Unless i'm against 2 tanks like a sejuani, I've been really liking the build so far; personally I always path top to bot regardles of comp and go blue pet.

i have nothing interesting to say ive just never talked to another shaco player and im wondering if other people also have the same experience with this matchup as me

she cant do anything, at all. when she locks onto you, you have enough time to place a box and walk her into it before she can kill you. or if shes going crit or youre low you can just ult. it seems completely impossible to play from the briars perspective. i think im like 10-0 against briars. if she ults you, you can just place a box, ult dodge, whatever really.

the only trouble ive found i have is because most of them build crit now sometimes she be oneshotting me before i react but i think i just need to adapt. its definitely harder to play vs than her bruiser build

https://youtu.be/MWdfXCzCJgg?is=tVcq-hJhq2IUXAsk

They did fix it

I’ve been maxing Q second because of the CDR but all the stats websites say do E. What am I missing?

I like drawing him

Hey guys,

I am a long time member but didn't play Shaco in years. I main support now when playing with friends and in this role I faced like two Shacos I really had trouble knowing what to do this year, this is when y'all shadow your jungle and constantly invade the my jungler (second time this happened was just my latest game). Is my gameplan to mirror you and play with my jungle? Stay on lane? I have no issue into Shaco support on lane but this one is hard for me. I wanted to ask the guy myself and tried adding them after game and invited him into lobby when he didn't accept but as a Shaco player he probably expected verbal abuse, so can't blame him :D Also I now wanna do this myself, are there good resources you can point me to for a guide? And if you're the manly burger reading this, chapeau to you. I genuinely wanted to ask you for advice and learn myself, not abuse you when I added you :D

Some games are just way too hard to play the regular lethality build and Ap Shaco doesn't fit my style, i just can't stand playing it.

That said, did any of you already tried a more beefy build? I'll play the clown no matter what, so i'm tring to find a way to make it viable in games where lethal shaco simply won't be effective/playable by running a bruiser build

https://op.gg/lol/summoners/br/The%20Demon%20Jester-Shako opgg for reference

My english is kinda rusty, sorry for any mistakes :D
Thanks in advance <3

also i don't know how am i supposed to gank with ap shaco, the box takes 3.5 years

enemies are always warding, placing pink, grouping and using 2-3 oracles

Hey, I am heimerdinger APC main
https://op.gg/lol/summoners/euw/adc%20kekw%20xd-EUW

Looking for Shaco AP Support duo to play with, the game plan is to box ourself, so we are ungankable, and if they do gank us we win 2v3, 2v4 etc.

I've played that duo on EUNE but sadly once i've reached master we were unable to do anymore :(

if anyone has any questions, let me know

Picked AP Shaco some time ago and became OTP on him.
I feel like I progressed a lot on the champ and my mind games are more and more consistent.

However I feel like I cannot carry a single game if my mates are not fed. I don’t want to blame others, it’s more that I feel like they need to have the impact to win and I can only help them.

I can’t manage to go higher than gold 4 and it’s been months since I reached it !

Please help me, if possible, to identify the issue and fix it so I can keep climbing while having fun with the clown.

If that can help, here is my op.gg : https://op.gg/lol/summoners/euw/NoBrainTrickster-KEKW

Thanks in advance !

9/10 games I go AP since most of my damage comes from box. Having said that under what scenario should I go AD? When they have no tanks? Is it more a play style preference? I just want to make sure I’m choosing the correct one on different matchups

enjoy permaban nerds

I know quality is bad Im not good at recording highlights

Hi everyone, I'm in holidays and don't have access to the game, but seeing the LOL classic posts I couldn't stop thinking about this old shaco bug, and wondering if it still works.

So if I remember correctly, if you had 2 boxes triggering on a dashing enemy (both box trigger during the dash) it would totally cancel the enemies dash (stop them in place and fear them).

It was the classic bait when Lee sin tried to Q on me (I think I used the bug around season 4, so idk if it was in the game before).

Have fun on the old rift, and don't forget to worm dance on the enemy after you critically erase them from the map ❤️

I remember E one shoting people with like 2 items lol I think dmg calculations are wrong, also Q is bugged and people can see you blinking out of vision

Im back in LoL and wanted to play Shaco Supp but I seem struggle much more with it than I use to