Talk:Roaming/@comment-3451074-20110421044113/@comment-3339721-20110421050404

I dunno. He's an interesting hybrid. He certainly ganks more than the standard jungler, and he counter-jungles and wards like a roamer, but, unlike a roamer, shaco DOES spend some time in the jungle grabbing buffs and minion kills.

In my experience, part of the benefit of HAVING a roamer is that it lets you run 3 solo lanes because, generally, you are running a roamer in ADDITION to a jungler, not in place of one. Shaco may have attributes of both a jungler AND a roamer, but, unfortunately, I think that means that you can't actually enlist shaco as a roamer because he wouldn't be able to jungle if you have a dedicated jungler.

At least, I've never seen shaco roam in the truest sense of the word. Don't take my word as law though, let some others give input.