Talk:Shaco/@comment-99.199.54.236-20120212040952/@comment-88.186.19.90-20120213135939

Shaco's main idea is to give your team an advantage very early in the game, before he becomes effectively useless in teamfights. AP shaco has some difficulties ganking, because all his damage rely on his shiv and boxes, which means he has no reliable CC since the slow is applied once and avoiding boxes is relatively easy, and is a 1burst char before the opponent retreats to his tower. Box nests are not efficient because the map is so big, so opponents can choose to take the long way round and avoid them. Also, you are utterly defenseless when your cooldowns are up and the opponents have several ways of shutting you down easily.

It's possible to go AP shaco in SR, but it's sooooo hard to play effectively for the same result as AD that it's not worth it at all.