Shaco's basic attacks and Two-Shiv Poison deal additional damage when striking from behind.
QDeceive13/12.5/12/11.5/11s40
Shaco becomes Invisible and teleports to target location.
His first attack while Invisible is empowered, dealing bonus damage and critically striking if he attacks from behind.
WJack In The Box15s70/65/60/55/50
Shaco creates a hidden animated Jack-in-the-Box. When triggered, it will fear and attack nearby enemies.
ETwo-Shiv Poison8s75
Shaco's Shivs passively poison targets on hit, slowing their Move Speed. He can throw his Shivs to deal damage and poison the target. The thrown Shiv deals bonus damage if the target is below 30% health.
RHallucinate100/90/80s100
Shaco creates an illusion of himself near him, which can attack nearby enemies (Deals reduced damage to turrets). Upon death, it explodes, spawning three mini Jack in the Boxes and dealing damage to nearby enemies.
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he would break stealth after cancelling a basic attack during Deceive.Buff
26.1· Jan 8, 2026Adjusted
Backstab
Bonus AD ratio reduced to 20% bonus AD from 25%.Nerf
Deceive
Backstab bonus damage formula now modifies critical damage to 60% effectiveness instead of calculating 155% base (+ 100% bonus critical damage)
of original damage.
Adj.
Base Backstab damage increased to 160% from 155%.Buff
1 Rolled critical damage is unchanged (default/100% of total critical damage).
25.16· Aug 13, 2025Nerfed
Backstab
Bonus AD ratio reduced to 25% bonus AD from 30%.Nerf
Deceive
Bonus AD ratio reduced to 60% bonus AD from 65%.Nerf
Cooldown increased to 13 to 11 seconds from 12 to 10.Nerf
25.7
Backstab
Bonus AD ratio increased to 30% bonus AD from 25%.
Deceive
Bonus AD ratio increased to 65% bonus AD from 60%.
14.4
Hallucinate
Undocumented: Jack in the Boxes spawned by the clone's explosion now trigger Malignance Hatefog.
35 older patches
14.3
Stats
Mana regeneration growth reduced to 0.35 from 0.45.
Jack in the Box
Mana cost reduced to 70 to 50 from 70 at all ranks.
Bonus damage to monsters increased to 20 to 80 from 10 to 50.
Bug Fix: Boxes are no longer killed in one hit by the basic attack of a Voidgrub.
Two-Shiv Poison
Mana cost increased to 75 from 65.
Hallucinate
New Effect: Clone now plays his Deceive VFX upon blinking (such as when snapping back to Shaco if out of leash range).
New Effect: Clone duration is now tracked on the ability's icon in the HUD.
Bug Fix: Clone now properly continues its basic attack target acquisition upon playing a spell animation due to Shaco casting Jack in the Box or Two-Shiv Poison.
14.2
Jack in the Box
Bug Fix: Boxes now trigger Cosmic Drive Spelldance.
Hallucinate
New Effect: Clone now automatically attacks the closest visible enemy champion within 1500 units of it while the caster is dead.
New Effect: Clone now plays the animation for placing Jack in the Box when Shaco casts it while within 300 units, faking the ability cast.
New Effect: Clone now casts Two-Shiv Poison when Shaco does while within 575 units of the target, firing a dummy missile that has no effect on the target when it arrives.
Bug Fix: Clone now properly duplicates Energized buff stacks and effects.
14.1
Hallucinate
New Effect: Clone now mirrors spell animations and recall visuals.
Bug Fix: Now spawns with the same mana as Shaco and copy jungle mana regeneration (if he is a jungler).
13.16
Stats
Base mana regeneration reduced to 6 from 7.15.
Jack in the Box
Mana cost increased to 70 at all ranks from 50 to 70.
13.15
Hallucinate
Bug Fix: Clone no longer mimics his moving animation during Q if the ability was cast during it.
13.14
Deceive
Bonus AD ratio increased to 60% bonus AD from 50%.
Backstab bonus critical strike damage increased to 55% from 40%.
Jack in the Box
Bug Fix: Boxes no longer instantly die to Hextech Drake empowered basic attack.
Note: This was fixed in one of the previous two patches.
Hallucinate
Bug Fix:Prowler's Claw Sandstrike is now properly triggered on the clone.
Note: This was fixed in one of the previous two patches.
13.8
Hallucinate
Bug Fix: Clone no longer counts as a minion for killing Dragon.
13.3
Hallucinate
Bug Fix: Clone incoming damage modifier is no longer modified to +200% (triple the normal damage) for turret damage. Turrets now deal the normal 50% increased (150% total) damage to the clone.
13.1
Deceive
Mana cost reduced to 40 from 60.
Backstab critical strike damage increased to 40% from 30%.
Two-Shiv Poison
Bonus AD ratio increased to 80% bonus AD from 75%.
12.22
Jack in the Box
Bug Fix: Now properly deals bonus damage.
Stats
Base mana regeneration reduced to 7.15 from 7.16.
12.13
Hallucinate
Bug Fix: The clone now spawns with a copied Spellblade buff if Shaco has the item (e.g. Lich Bane), and can now trigger it on its next attack.
12.12
Backstab
Bonus AD ratio increased to 25% bonus AD from 15%.
Deceive
Bonus AD ratio increased to 50% bonus AD from 40%.
Jack in the Box
Cooldown reduced to 15 seconds from 16.
Duration AP ratio increased to 10% AP from 5% AP.
Stats
Health growth reduced to 99 from 103.
12.10
Stats
Base health increased to 630 from 560.
Health growth increased to 103 from 89.
Armor growth increased to 4.7 from 3.5.
Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.
12.9
Backstab
Bug Fix: No longer is sometimes audible to enemies from the fog of war.
Bug Fix: Attack from boxes now benefit from Horizon Focus Hypershot.
Hallucinate
Bug Fix: Cooldown is correctly reduced by Axiom Arc when the clone is still alive.
11.23
Hallucinate
Undocumented/Bug Fix: Attacks from boxes spawned by the exploding clone will no longer trigger Hextech Dragon Soul repeatedly ignoring its cooldown.
11.17
Hallucinate
Bug Fix: Clone now correctly gains 10 gold from killing a ward, not 20.
11.16
Deceive
Removed: Enemies no longer see its visual effects when cast through Fog of War.
Hallucinate
Bug Fix: Clone no longer overrides all issued commands and attempts to repeatedly path back to the caster when it destroys a ward.
Bug Fix: Clone no longer paths back to the caster after not being issued any commands within the last 10 seconds.
Bug Fix: Clone now properly spawns mini Jack in the Box after death when killed by reactive damage.
Bug Fix: Wards destroyed by the clone now properly grant gold to the caster.
11.15
Deceive
Bug Fix: Orange smoke VFX now correctly appears from the enemy's point of view when cast through fog of war.
11.14
Stats
Base health reduced to 560 from 587.
Base movement speed reduced to 345 from 350.
11.11
Jack in the Box
Multi target AP ratio reduced to 9% AP from 10% AP.
Single target AP ratio reduced to 18% AP from 20% AP.
Two-Shiv Poison
AP ratio reduced to 50% AP from 55% AP.
11.5
Jack in the Box
New Effect: Now deals 10 to 50bonus damage against monsters.
Single target base damage reduced to 25 to 85 from 35 to 95.
Multi target base damage reduced to 10 to 30 from 15 to 35.
11.2
Backstab
Base damage increased to 20 to 35 from 10 to 25.
11.1
Stats
Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
10.22
Hallucinate
New Effect: New range indicator for the clone that snap back when exceeding its range. The indicator is centered around the clone and only appears when it is within 500 range of the teleport leash.
10.14
Hallucinate
Bug Fix: Now properly receives assist credit in takedowns where only his clone assisted.
10.13
Jack in the Box
Bug Fix: Boxes are now able to properly activate Manaflow Band.
10.10
Hallucinate
Bug Fix: Clone now properly does 60% of Shaco's AD from items with on-hit effects.
10.9
Two-Shiv Poison
Bug Fix: No longer gets a double kill and double the intended gold from killing with his clone and by casting it in his enemy's Realm of Death.
Hallucinate
Bug Fix: Clone no longer gets a burst of movement speed from Nimbus Cloak.
Bug Fix: Killing drakes with Hallucinate will not affect how Souls are granted, impact the type of drakes that spawn, or block Elder Dragons from spawning.
9.21
Jack in the Box
Box duration reduced to 40 seconds from 60.
9.20
Stats
Base attack damage reduced to 63 from 66.
Attack damage growth reduced to 3 from 3.5.
Backstab
New Innate Effect: Basic attacks, Deceive, and Two-Shiv Poison have additional effects when striking an enemy from behind.
Basic attacks deal an additional 10 to 25(+ 15% bonus AD)bonus physical damage. This damage can critically strike.
Deceive critically strikes for 30% bonus damage.
Two-Shiv Poison deals an additional 15 to 50(+ 10% AP)
Undocumented/Bug Fix:
Can now properly trigger the eye of Rift Herald for bonus true damage.
Undocumented/Bug Fix: Pet can now consistently be commanded to attack inhibitors and the Nexus via their controller spells or automatic attack priorities.
This fix was later documented in V13.15.
Armor growth reduced to 4 from 4.7.
Deceive
Bonus AD ratio increased to 40% bonus AD from 25%.
Jack in the Box
Multi target AP ratio increased to 12% AP from 9% AP.
Single target AP ratio unchanged.
Two-Shiv Poison
Bonus AD ratio increased to 75% bonus AD from 70%.
AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 50% AP.
Hallucinate
Bug Fix:Clones no longer apply Emberknife and Hailblade damage over time debuff against monsters if a copy of the item is in their inventory, preventing a bug where they could fail to attribute kill credit of a monster if they died before it was killed by the effect.
Old Innate: Basic attacking an enemy from behind critically strikes for (30% + 25%) AD(+ 40% AP)bonus physical damage, increased to (100% + 25%) AD(+ 40% AP) against monsters.
Deceive
Stealth duration changed to 2.5 to 3.5 seconds from 1.5 to 4.5.
Cooldown reduced to 12 to 10 seconds from 16 to 14.
Removed: Cooldown is no longer reduced by 2.5 seconds if Shaco attacks an enemy.
Base damage increased to 25 to 65 from 10 to 50.
AD ratio reduced to 25% bonus AD from 40% bonus AD.
Removed: No longer scales with 30% AP.
New Effect: Bonus damage can now critically strike.
Undocumented:Invisibility no longer cancels by using Teleport.
Jack in the Box
New Effect: Now fires at all nearby enemies, dealing 15 to 35(+ 10% AP) magic damage per attack, but increased to 35 to 95(+ 20% AP) if it is attacking only one enemy.
Fear duration against non-champions increased to 2 seconds from 0.5.
Feared movement speed for minions and monsters reduced to 60 from 100.
Two-Shiv Poison
Damage type changed to magic from physical.
Base damage increased to 70 to 170 from 55 to 155.
AD ratio changed to 80% bonus AD at all ranks from 60 to 120% bonus AD.
AP ratio reduced to 60% AP from 75% AP.
Removed: Damage is no longer increased by 0% to 50%.
New Effect: Now deals 50% increased damage to targets below 30% of their maximum health.
Hallucinate
Jack in the Box now trigger instantly upon clone death.
Explosion base damage reduced to 150 to 300 from 200 to 400.
Explosion AP ratio reduced to 70% AP from 100% AP.
New Effect: Jack in the Box now fire at all nearby enemies, dealing 10 to 30(+ 10% AP) magic damage per attack, but increased to 25 to 75(+ 15% AP) if it is attacking only one enemy.
Fear duration changed to 1 second at all ranks from 0.75 to 1.25.
