Bard vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Bard
based on 3,833 Bard vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Shaco
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here feature some strategic Bard against Shaco matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shaco’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Shaco. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Bard often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Shaco. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Shaco
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Who is Better, Bard or Shaco?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Shaco, with a 53.1% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a great counter for Shaco.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Shaco, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Shacoas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shaco. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Shaco matchups, Bard is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Bard is a great counter for Shaco. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Bard against Shaco.
Other Champion Matchups Against Bard
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to counter Shaco during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Shaco. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Bard versus Shaco build consist of Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Shaco than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 53.1% when playing against Shaco with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Shaco as Bard, Bard players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Bard vs Shaco battles, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.1% winrate overall.
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