Quote from steveSTAR on the 28th of July 2011:
Shaco should take blue buff at start, with about 4/5 boxes can't remember, then come try gank a lane early. He's got a very useful invis flash kinda thing which makes ganking amazing.
I've never actually played him so other people should give better advice, I'm just going by what happens to me or what I've seen team mates doing.
Disagree if ur going to take the boxes as a first option and gank u should start at the red buff, you dont need the mana for ganking you need the slow
Level 1 = Boxes
Level 2 = Invis (crit on hit)
Combine the red buffs slow and dot damage + crit from normal attack works better + u dont need to take the slow at level 2 and can gank easier
The only use in taking the blue buff first is if ur not gonna gank till level 4 and carry on jungling after the blue so your build would be
Level 1 = Boxes
Level 2 = Slow
Level 3 = Boxes or Slow depending on what u need more, e.g relay on boxes to kill the mobs in jungle or have a madreds first tier to do occasional 500 damage so a slow is better
Level 4 = Your Ganking ability the invis
Hope that made sense
Posted on Friday, 5th August 2011