Shaco vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Shaco
based on 8,468 Shaco vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Shaco vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Shaco in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Shaco versus Brand matchup statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Brand’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Brand..
Shaco normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Brand. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Brand
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Who is Better, Shaco or Brand?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually loses when facing off against Brand, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Shaco makes a poor counter to Brand.
While Shaco does have a lower winrate compared to Brand, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Shaco into Brandas 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 Brand. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Shaco is a terribly counter to Brand. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Shaco against Brand.
Other Champion Matchups Against Shaco
Additional Information for Shaco Players
How We Calculated Our Shaco vs Brand Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco to counter Brand during both the early game 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 suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco usually picks up less CS compared to Brand. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Shaco versus Brand build include Maw of Malmortius, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Brand than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when playing against Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Brand as Shaco, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Shaco vs Brand counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Brand as Shaco are shown for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.