Cat-in-the-Box Shaco
Cat in the Box Shaco is a Legendary-tier skin that launched alongside four other 2025 variety skins in celebration of April Fools, our annual excuse to deliver delightfully absurd surprises. This time, Shaco wasn’t just the jester… he was three cats in a suit. Yes, really.
From the start, the team’s creative goal was to flip the script on his usual sinister style to embrace a more comical direction that still captured his core as a chaotic trickster. The Legendary tier opened the door for bold, expressive animation, VFX, and SFX inspired by classic slapstick cartoons to give Shaco’s mischief a wackier, more exaggerated edge.
The Audio team took a wonderfully unhinged risk and replaced all his VO with cat sounds, and it paid off purrfectly. To balance all this over-the-top expression, we kept the character design intentionally simple to leave room for the other disciplines to shine.
Skin Bio: MrrRRRrrowwww. Hhhiiisssss. Meow. Purrrr.
In-Game View Concept Renders
Orthographic Concepts
3D Turnaround
Q Ability (Deceive) VFX Concept - 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.
W Ability (Jack In The Box) VFX Concept - Shaco creates a hidden animated Cat-in-the-Box. When triggered, it will fear and attack nearby enemies.
E Ability (Two-Shiv Poison) VFX Concept - 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
R Ability (Hallucinate) VFX Concept - 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 Cat-in-the-Boxes
Skin Spotlight
Cat-in-the-Box Shaco burst onto the Rift on April 2, 2025, part of the April Fools’ Day event variety pack of skins. This Legendary-tier skin includes a fully custom model, rig, animations, VFX, SFX, and VO.