How to beat Shaco

Common role: Jungle

A stealthy trickster who boxes the jungle, backstabs, and splits into a clone.

What makes Shaco dangerous

Shaco stealths with his Q to backstab for bonus damage, plants fear-boxes that ambush and terrify you, and his ultimate creates a damaging clone that lets him deceive and burst. He excels at early cheese ganks and mid-game picks on isolated, unwarded targets, and he's frustratingly slippery.

How to play against Shaco

• 1Buy Control Wards and a sweeper — vision counters his stealth and reveals his boxes before they fear you.
• 2Don't walk into unwarded brush and chokepoints early — that's where his fear-boxes wait. Clear them before objectives.
• 3When he ults, the clone deals damage and he may be stealthed — AoE damage and reveal find the real Shaco. Don't blow your combo on the clone.
• 4Stay grouped and warded in the mid-game. Shaco preys on lone, low-vision targets; deny the isolation and his impact craters.

Weaknesses to exploit

• ✓Vision (Control Wards/sweepers) counters his stealth and boxes.
• ✓Squishy — dies fast if you catch and CC him.
• ✓Falls off relative to scaling carries late.
• ✓Weak into grouped, well-warded teams.

Abilities & how to counter them

What each of Shaco's abilities does — and how to play around it.

• P
  バックスタブ

  対象の背後から攻撃した場合、通常攻撃と「ポイズンダガー」が追加ダメージを与える。

• Q
  幻惑

  インビジブル状態になり、瞬間移動する。インビジブル中の最初の通常攻撃は追加ダメージを与え、対象の背後から攻撃した場合はクリティカルになる。

  Strong: stealths to backstab for bonus damage and reposition. Weak: on cooldown he has no escape — vision and a sweeper strip his stealth.

• W
  びっくり箱

  隠された「びっくり箱」をフィールド上に設置する。敵が近づくと発動して、周囲の敵すべてを恐怖に陥れて攻撃する。

  Strong: fear-boxes ambush and terrify you in brush and chokepoints. Weak: Control Wards and Oracle Lens reveal and clear them before they proc.

• E
  ポイズンダガー

  「ポイズンダガー」は自動効果により通常攻撃が命中した敵に毒を与え、移動速度を低下させる。発動した場合は対象にナイフを投げ、ダメージと毒を与える。対象の体力が30%未満の場合は追加ダメージが発生する。

• R
  ハルシネイト

  シャコの分身が生成され周囲の敵を攻撃する(タワーに対してはダメージが減少する)。分身の体力が尽きると爆発して、3つの「ミニびっくり箱」を発生させ、周囲の敵にダメージを与える。

  Strong: a damaging clone for deception and burst. Weak: AoE and reveal find the real Shaco — don't blow your combo on the clone.

Itemization

Shaco can go AD (crit backstab) or AP (box burst); either way, vision control is the universal counter. Control Wards and Oracle Lens deny his stealth and boxes, and grouping shuts down his isolated picks.

This guide covers Shaco's core kit and playstyle — advice that holds up across patches.