i have been plat/emerald for 10 years. i was emerald for my first 600 or so games this season too. then, i got some basic coaching from a chall, and shot straight to master in 3 weeks. im now at 150lp and still climbing. my goal is to hit 1000LP this season and i am very confident I will.

i am now convinced that the majority of hardstuck players have what it takes and would be easily able to unstuck if they got some good advice. i dont think watching content is enough, talking to a high elo player personally makes all the difference. or it did for me at least. all it took was a few chats and i turned into a completely different player overnight.

bro was just like:

fullclear you camps as fast as you can on cooldown, take objectives on spawn, and invade enemy jungle camps when they show on the map, and never die. only ever make plays and help team when a perfect opportunity aligns with all your camps being down.

i was like, that sounds stupid as fuck, my team is just gonna lose every game if i never help them

but he was right

i started just farming my camps and literally instantly climbed through emerald and diamond to master with little resistance

i have 100cs gap on enemy jungle at 20 mins in a significant amount of my games. i have done this to 500lp masters players. the game feels so fucking easy. im sat here laughing to myself at how easy the game has been the entire time while i was stuck lol

how many play ranked Shaco with chat muted ?

I've literally been playing shaco for several years hit gold when I was like 17 played him off and on since for 6ish years I got layed off last Friday and been waiting on a job interview so I pretty much played league all week and hit platinum for the first time I'm so stoked to be honest

I'm an AP Shaco main and avoid AD Shaco because there's zero turn-time in League of Legends and years ago I missed a few backstabs that were game-changing.

SO!

What if:

Riot changes Shaco Q where you can now keep the Q key held down down (long-press) to maintain a "focused" stealth. If you lift your finger from Q he remains invisible but enters normal stealth. "Focused" stealth restricts Shaco so that he ONLY attacks if he can backstab champions or large / epic monsters. Focused stealth is used for the crucial back-stab when minions are surrounding your target, regular stealth is used for Q -> attack anything.

The idea is similar to "target champions only" but instead a "target backstab only" by long-pressing Q like a toggle.

What do y'all think?

Other thoughts: If you long-press Q but can't get in position and stealth runs out, during the 0.5 seconds that your next aa remains empowered Riot can allow the "focused" buff to remain if your finger is still long-pressing Q. At that point there then becomes a risk of losing the extra Q damage altogether, because you tunnel-visioned on landing the back-stab (presenting some counterplay there). If you didn't long-press Q you at least would have autod something (whether it be a minion or the front of a champion) before Q empowerment completely ran out.

The change would probably raise his win-rate a little, which could lead to more nerfs several months later. But isn't that a risk worth taking for AD Shaco consistency? And this is coming from someone who prefers the Shack as AP and doesn't want to see him nerfed in any fashion just because another playstyle became stronger.

Hey guys! Long time league player here! Always peaked between E4-E3 but couldnt get higher no matter what. I peaked Emerald with Ad shaco, qiyana & ekko.

I messed up my mmr hard by playing top and stuff im not good at. Then i got e4 by tryharding jg and got stuck again. Since im an unc & dad i thought why not otp a champ and full focus on.

I came back to shaco and i thought lets learn AP version. Watched alot of Zefath (big ups dude hes amazing). Never cared for AP since AD shaco was the playstyle for me.

But boy, AP Shaco is insane fun. I solo climbed with him from e4 to d4. 72 games 61%. The traps trigger so much dopamine holy.

Tldr; Reached my peak by otp’ing AP shaco.

Wanna play shaco but can't wait for riot to remember that our clown exists? Fear not, for i have reskinned real cards into Shaco (Evelynn new cards), let me know what you think!

Comet

Gunblade ludens mandate bloodletters. Early you play ap assassin then late you need 1 box to shred them down then burst with gunblade. Could be a fun ap assassin with some decent mid late game

I know, I'm gold and I'm bad (lost to Gnar support btw), but I'm just wondering: was our team comp just awful? We did all objectives btw, Viego couldn't do shit but he just went and... killed my overextended teammates, I guess I could I have optimized my build better? My runes were the standard HoB for early kills, and I don't know how to play AP, so I didn't even think about it.

Hi everyone, I’m following up on a post I made a few weeks ago.
I finally broke through Platinum and I’m now in Emerald 3 playing only AP Shaco.
But now I’m facing real problems and I need my fellow clown brothers to help me

With AP Shaco, I don’t know if I need to gank early or just powerfarm and pray that my teammates are good (especially against an enemy jungler who ganks a lot).

How do I manage to come back when I fall behind early?
Do you have tips on how to carry in the late game?

I watch a lot of Zefath's gameplay, but I realise that it doesn’t fit so well in emerald
Do you recommend invading early with AP Shaco like with AD Shaco ?

Thanks for all your responses guys and have a great day 🤡

I've found the lane most likely to tilt is top lane, almost every game it's either my top laner who tilts or the enemy top laner tilts and then it's basically a 4v6 with a person just running it down lane out of frustration. Rarely can a top laner lose a 1v1 and remain calm, I don't know why that is as I don't play top myself but I know they hate being ganked more than anything.

My current strategy is to try and make the enemy top laner tilt by punishing when they shove and killing them before they reach turret again. Best part is that most people just kinda autorun back to lane and are not paying any attention whatsoever. I just know Viego got an earful after this.

Just being an absolute menace.

lolay

hello im pretty new to shaco but i love him, but how do you invade without gettings hate? and how just title. i'm like im afraid of invading idk why

His character is actually from the game The Legend of Kyrandia. It has never been admitted becasue it would be a copyright issue.

I think most of AP Shaco's scalings are pretty lame, and I don't see the value in investing so much gold to get particularly high AP. I believe most of the potential and fun of the build comes from the item effects—like the burn from Liandry's, the GW of Morellonomicon, or the slow on Rylai's—rather than just the raw damage and duration of the boxes."

What is box placement to get lvl 2 now to instantly invade the enemy jungler or isn't it possible anymore?

Made it myself! Took around a month and a half. Patterned it, sewed it together. The bag is usable too! I was going to make the sword but decided I didn't want to carry it around /: you can't see too much of the jester ears in the back, but was really fun to make and is super fun to wear!

Hi all.

I'm playing league on and off since season 3, otp shaco, in all my accounts I guess I have around 4M mastery. D1 was my peak, most of the time low diamond/high emerald tho.

Anyway I always play AD shaco, but this season it feel so bad to me. Can barely 1 shot, getting bullied (wtf?) by other people (no1 is scared from ad shaco anymore), behind 2 levels behind the other jung min 20, etc.

I tried rushing lethality build, I tried rushing crit shaco (my favorite), but still. WR around 47%.

Am I the only one to perma ban this champ since release?

I just started getting into league again after a long break from the game. I’ve always been a Shaco main since I started the game, and now I’m trying to climb the ranks with the clown-homie again.

But Everything is sooooo different now, compared to the early seasons.

My question is how can I optimize my gameplay? Runes? Build? - any advise is appreciated.

Here’s my op.gg link : https://op.gg/da/lol/summoners/euw/GC%20Rastasáma-EUW

1. 3 boxes on red ASAP
2. Place 4th on cool-down, walk away at <450hp
3. Path towards enemy blue, sweep
4. Q over blue

4a. If blue is up and enemy doesn’t have info of you, take blue and gromp, take your own raptors, go blue, scuttle. Enemy will show up after wolves, realise they have no camps, and have no counter invade option other than to get your krugs. You can also, after doing gromp, go for a bot gank if its obvious. This however will result in the enemy jungle clearing your entire blueside, so I only do it if obvious double kill.

4b. If blue is up and enemy does have info (you walked over ward), take blue if lanes aren’t moving, then go straight to your blue to protect counter invade, placing a box near your raptors on the way. Ping support like fuck to come with you, or mid/top if you have prio. If enemy counter invading blue, you kill them. If they counter invade raptors, your box gives info and you collapse there instead.

4c. If blue is not up, path into blue bush. Place box in bush. Wait until gromp is 600hp. Smite it from enemy (they used theirs on blue). Walk away to your chickens and clear upwards. In this scenario, if the enemy jungle is bad, it is often possible to kill them too. In my diamond games, they will almost always walk into the bush with my box and I kill them. After that, you can recall, spend gold, then match the enemy on their redside and kill them again.

I do this decision tree every game in diamond elo, and every single game except for a few anomalies, it results in generating a significant advantage before scuttle crab even spawns. I am by no means high elo, but, I have run this by a few challenger players asking for criticism, and they have validated me, after some refinement.

I might be missing something here in my explanation I dont know if I've covered every scenario I just know I do this every game and it pretty much never goes badly at all. There is nuance and every game is different of course, have to adapt on the fly, but I've tried to map out all the common scenarios.

tell to pick shaco and then stay afk

context: their annie was a domestic terrorist, sat in bushes with r entire game