Recommended Build

Playing as Shaco

Tips to maximize your impact

Gank from behind
Gank with Deceive (Q) and come in behind your target: Backstab (passive) empowers hits from behind, and your first invisible auto becomes a critical strike.
Finish with Two-Shiv Poison
Save Two-Shiv Poison (E) to finish: the shiv deals much more damage to a target below 30% health.
Trick them with your clone
Cast Hallucinate (R) to bait their spells: you briefly disappear and reappear with a clone, which explodes on death into three boxes that fear.
Trap their escape routes
Place Jack In The Box (W) on their escape routes or at a camp entrance: invisible after a delay, it fears champions who come near, then shoots them.

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How to counter and exploit weaknesses

Back before you get too low
Back before your health drops too low: below 30% health, Two-Shiv Poison (E) deals much more damage to you.
Move away from his clone
Move away from the Hallucinate (R) clone before it dies: it explodes and spawns three boxes that fear nearby enemies.
Focus him when he engages
If you can reach him, focus him when he engages with Deceive (Q): he no longer has it to escape, on a 13 to 11 second cooldown.
Ward his camps and your entrances
Ward near his camps and at the entrances to your lane: spot him before Deceive (Q), which makes him invisible for his gank.
Move carefully in his jungle
Move carefully in his jungle: Jack In The Box (W) goes invisible, fears the champion who comes near, then shoots nearby enemies for 5 seconds.