Shaco vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Shaco
based on 2,170 Shaco vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Alistar
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Shaco vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Shaco in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some vital Shaco against Alistar counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences between these two champions. Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Alistar. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Shaco typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Alistar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Alistar
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Who is Better, Shaco or Alistar?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shaco usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Alistar, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes an ok counter for Alistar.
While Shaco does have a lower win rate than Alistar, when facing one another, Shaco also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Shaco into Alistaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Shaco also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Shaco is a somewhat poor counter for Alistar. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Shaco against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco typically gets a similar amount of CS as Alistar. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Shaco versus Alistar build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Alistar than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 49.4% when countering Alistar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Alistar as Shaco, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Shaco vs Alistar clashes, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
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