Shaco · Matchup Tale 023
The Clone Bomb
It's not a decoy. It's a timer, wearing my face, set to go off exactly where I want.
Jul 20, 2026 · L · 9/13/20 · 49m
Shaco · the guide, in one page
One build. Same con, every game.
Runes that never change, an item path that scales with how the game is going, the combos that turn a mana crystal into a losing lane for them, and the vision game underneath all of it.
games
462
WR
53.2%
KDA
2.6
as support
462
since
2026-02-23
Skill order
Q at 1. Max the box. Everything else is situational.
Q Deceive — level 1, always
The taxi. It starts every trade, every escape, every lie. One point, then it waits.
W Jack in the Box — max first
The whole game plan. A box is a ward that fights back, it goes on cooldown every time it's up, either guarding river and bushes or riding along in a combo.
E Two-Shiv — when the lane needs reach
At level 2–3 the point goes to W most games; E takes it when I need poke and range more than a second box.
Boxes win the lane you're in; shivs win the lanes you visit.
The rune page
Shaco — Comet. It stopped changing a long time ago.
Arcane Comet
the keystone, every game
The cheapest fear money can buy. Consistent when ahead, consistent when behind.
Sorcery
Arcane Comet
Nimbus Cloak
Transcendence
Scorch
Domination
Sudden Impact
Sixth Sense
The keystone below isn't a recommendation, it's what I've settled on: Arcane Comet, every game. The short version of why: support Shaco's job is to make the enemy botlane play scared from level 1, and this page is the cheapest fear money can buy.
The item path
The typical game, in order. Branches where the game gets a vote.
the usual game 
misc.
misc. Start
Stealth Ward free 
Health Potion 50 
Control Ward 75 Boxes are the real wards. The trinket swaps to Oracle Lens once lane vision is a fight I'm winning anyway.
First back — the mana crystal rule
Sapphire Crystal 300 Boots 300 
Amplifying Tome 400 
Glowing Mote 250 99% of first backs start with the mana crystal. After that it's boots, tome, or mote, whatever the gold allows. Everything here is already Lost Chapter in disguise.
The engine
Lost Chapter 1200 Ionian Boots of Lucidity 900 Lost Chapter almost always comes first; Lucidity fills the gap while it decides what to become. Cooldowns are the con, run it again sooner.
Branch — the mana item, pick one
Malignance my pick
Ult them, then keep burning the ground they run to.
Luden's Echo
The burst option when the poke war is the whole game.
Blackfire Torch
The popular route, Torch into Liandry's. Correct, just not mine.
Lost Chapter becomes exactly one of these. The rest of the path doesn't care which.
The duo spike
Imperial Mandate Mark the target, the whole team buys the lie. It prints when I'm queued with Mason, the follow-up is guaranteed. In pug games it slides later in the order, or out of it entirely.
The health tax
Morellonomicon Rylai's Crystal Scepter Honest confession: half the appeal is the ruby crystal. A squishy clown eventually needs health, and both of these let me buy some without feeling like I stopped building damage.
Branch — when I'm fed
Shadowflame 
Zhonya's Hourglass When the game got out of hand in my favor: Shadowflame to punish the ones who thought they were safe, or Zhonya's when they've decided the support dies first.
The item set, as shipped
The exact rows in my in-game item set browser.
Start / Early Back & Loot
Free
50
150
75
300
Free
Pieces
300
400
250
1200
1600
Main Build
900
2700
2400
2850
2600
3200
Mana Items (pick 1)
2700
2900
2800
Optional / defense choices
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The mechanics
one tool, one clipNot a combo, a single technique used at the right moment. The shelf grows one game at a time.
Shaco · Clip Tale 020
The Baron Pit Redirect
Zoned off Baron entirely, so I sent someone who was never really there.
Jul 19, 2026 · W · 6/8/18 · 32m
Shaco · Matchup Tale 021
The Nimbus Cloak Close
Ignite was thrown for the burn. The move speed did the rest.
Jul 19, 2026 · L · 7/10/11 · 26m
Shaco · Matchup Tale 022
Turning Twitch's Invis Pick
Twitch vanished for the kill. He came back as the target instead.
Jul 19, 2026 · W · 7/1/13 · 26m
Shaco · Matchup Tale 018
Turning Senna's Follow-Up
Senna set up the kill. The box made her the target instead.
Jul 15, 2026 · W · 2/2/12 · 28m
Shaco · Matchup Tale 015
Jumping the Flay
Losing sight of him wasn't the problem. Standing where he had to walk back through was the plan.
Jul 14, 2026
Shaco · Matchup Tale 016
The Clone Eats the Hook
Same read as the clean dodge. Just too close this time to make it there instead of just be there.
Jul 14, 2026
Shaco · Matchup Tale 012
Respect the Missile
Held the dodge for the read. The missile didn't wait for one.
Jul 13, 2026 · W · 4/4/10 · 37m
Shaco · Matchup Tale 013
The Hook's Blind Spot
A leash still has to reach you. A stun already has.
Jul 13, 2026 · W · 4/4/10 · 37m
Shaco · Clip Tale 009
The level 1 tax
Not extra damage. Just damage they were never in position to see coming.
Jul 7, 2026
Shaco · Matchup Tale 006
The Clone Dodge
Not brave. Not even hit. Just early.
Jul 6, 2026 · W · 7/9/15 · 41m
The combos
tales, not chaptersEach of these becomes a clip tale when I catch one on replay. The shelf grows one game at a time.
The harass loop
run Q behind them, box, auto if it's free, leave. At even health this wins most trades, but it runs on tempo, not damage.
clip coming: tale it next game
The level 1–2 all-in
they flash Only when my ADC is locked in. Ignite goes out after the fear lands, not before, they flash the box anyway, and the box keeps zoning after they're gone.
The Q-E poke
cometchunk Rare on purpose, box placement is almost always the better spend. But with Comet off cooldown and lane priority, this is free damage. Check the map first, no follow-up and no slow once E is thrown.
clip coming: tale it next game
The distraction
be seenbox survives Sometimes placing the box right means being the bait. Pop out with the Q and the auto so they aim at me instead of killing the box too fast. I'll even skip the auto, the box placement matters more.
clip coming: tale it next game
Box on cooldown
riverbushestri Not a combo, the doctrine. From level 2 the box is basically never off cooldown: it's a ward that punishes the facecheck, catches the gank before it starts, or tells me exactly where they are.
Warding
vision as offenseControl wards, jungle reads, denial. The box is a ward that fights back, but it's not the only one.
Shaco · Matchup Tale 014
Forcing Yi's Guess
The box wasn't the escape plan. It was the backup for the guess he had to make anyway.
Jul 14, 2026 · W · 4/2/8 · 30m
Shaco · Matchup Tale 005
Boxing Jhin's Trap
Jhin's trap wanted a triple-kill montage. It got a box.
Jul 6, 2026
Shaco · Clip Tale 002
Boxing the Blast Plant
It's not a trap, it's a landlord doing a property inspection.
Jul 5, 2026
Shaco · Luck Tale 003
Caught Shopping
Jul 5, 2026
Shaco · Clip Tale 004
One Box, Two Wards
Two-for-one sale, no trinket required.
Jul 5, 2026
Why AP, why support
AP because a support income can still buy terror. Support because Shaco's real resource isn't gold or mana, it's attention. Botlane is where attention is cheapest and panic is most contagious. Also: nobody banning Shaco expects the honest version, the one that lands the hook for you, dies for the ADC, and says gl hf and means it.