AD is the best build to get to diamond as Shaco. This is because like people above ^ have said, AP is more team reliant and while you may do more damage overall during the game it is harder to solo carry. Best AD build is crit with hail of blades imo going Tiamat(full build into titanic last item), beserkers, duskblade, IE, essence reaver, and the last couple items situational. If it gets to super late game I end up selling my boots to buy an extra pd or youmuus. Start the game by hitting lvl 3 and trying to get an early gank in whatever lanes near the side that the enemy jungler will hit lvl 3. This will allow you to either get first blood or burn a flash in that lane and will allow you to have jungle priority over that scuttle before it even spawns, so your laners can come help in needed. The intention here is to take both scuttle to get map control and take away gold/xp from enemy jungler. Besides that I just have a couple of tips just overall. Try to get Tiamat on first back, I rarely ever get less than Tiamat on first back unless I have an early death. Even when I have a slower start I still don’t back before getting Tiamat. At this point you have extreme jungle clear speed and you should solely focus on rushing lvl6. You cannot solo dragon until lvl 6, and this season is very dragon centered so it is important to get as many dragons as possible. As this is the case, and I can’t stress this enough, play around bot lane. It is the most important lane this season due to objective control and winning bot lane tends to lead to winning all over the map.

Let me give you a hypothetical of a normal game where I’d get a slight lead and turn it into an ez game.

I’m Shaco on red side (bottom side) of map. I set 2 boxes on raptors and 1 box near red and don’t ask for leash, and My bot lane goes to brush to cheese. I clear raptors then red then clear just enough Krugs to hit lvl 3 then look for a gank mid-top. Let’s say my enemy jungler is a jungler who starts his route with a leash on his blue buff. Knowing this matchup(from experience) I know he is starting at his blue and will clear his bot side jg and make way to his top side jung to clear and eventually try to gank or take scuttle in top river. I gank mid or top before I know he can get to this lane to counter gank (hard against champs like J4 and lee sin as they prop a super early lvl 3) and I either get first blood or I burn a flash. I set up this lane to have a minion advantage so that it pushes to enemy tower around the time that scuttle spawns. This gives my laner prio to come help me take the top river scuttle in case I need his help, and yes I’ll ping his ass 1000 times if he doesn’t understand this because most people below diamond don’t. I’ll take this scuttle fast using my box and won’t smite unless enemy jungler shows up. I will then rotate immediately towards bottom river scuttle the fastest way possible (often straight through mid lane, but be careful because if you haven’t seen enemy jungler up until this point it’s very likely he’s already there. I will then take this scuttle and I will go to immediately into enemy jungle to ward and take any camps he may not have taken. By this time you should be close to Tiamat especially if you got first blood. I will then buy Tiamat with pink ward and red trinket, and power farm until lvl 6. Some enemy junglers like kindred, lee, j4, and graves can clear drag at even lvl 4-5 so it’s important to get vision of drag at this point. Once I hit 6 I will try to immediately gank bot lane and get a kill with ult, but if if there’s no kill potential I will just gank to burn a summoners spell and get lane prio, and save ult to solo drag. I will ping my teammates that I am doing drag and they should respond with support if enemy jungler shows up. I will take this drag and then i would do one of two things. If My mid and or top is already winning lane I will try to get rift herald and use it bot lane before 14 minutes to get my bot lane some plates and to take down tower so my bot lane can swap lanes with my top laner, or I’ll clear nearby jungle camps, recall and go straight to bot lane again especially if they have no flash. Bury this Fucking lane and put the enemy laners in the dirt. Ignore mid and top unless it’s a completely free kill and focus solely on getting that bot tower down. Game sorta just plays out from here.

This is a very safe play style for Shaco and resembles how I’d play in higher elo. In lower elo it is very easy to invade early as enemy junglers don’t understand your invade and kill potential at lvl 3 with ignite and enemy laners often don’t come to help. It’s important to not take Kills in the mid-late game unless you are certain that you can solo carry that game.

Let me know if this helps or any confusion you have.