Akali vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Akali
based on 8,114 Akali vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Shaco
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Win Against Shaco
If Shaco is doing well early-game, it is worth the investment to place Stealth Wards near his Jungle camps.
If Shaco uses Deceive to enter a fight he won't be able to quickly use it again to get away. Work with your team to quickly focus him down.
Akali vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Akali in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several important Akali against Shaco counter statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shaco’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Shaco..
Akali usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Shaco. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Shaco
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Who is Better, Akali or Shaco?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akali usually loses when playing against Shaco, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Akali makes a poor counter to Shaco.
While Akali does have a lower win rate compared to Shaco, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Akali into Shacoas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shaco. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali vs Shaco matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter to Shaco. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Akali against Shaco.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to counter Shaco during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali usually picks up much more CS as Shaco. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Akali versus Shaco build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Akali combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Shaco than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when countering Shaco with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Shaco as Akali, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Akali vs Shaco face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.4% winrate overall.
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