Brand vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Brand
based on 8,468 Brand vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Shaco
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Brand in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some influential Brand against Shaco counter stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shaco’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Shaco..
Brand usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Shaco. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Shaco
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Who is Better, Brand or Shaco?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when playing against Shaco, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes a good counter for Shaco.
While Brand does have a higher winrate than Shaco, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Brand into Shaco.
Furthermore, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shaco. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Shaco matchups, Brand is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Brand is a good counter to Shaco. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Shaco.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand 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 presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand usually racks up more CS compared to Shaco. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Brand versus Shaco build include Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Shaco than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 52.4% when playing against Shaco with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Shaco as Brand, Brand players should use the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Brand vs Shaco counters, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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