Shaco vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Shaco
based on 4,553 Shaco vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Darius Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Darius as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Darius
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 Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Shaco vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Shaco in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Shaco against Darius counter stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Darius’s ratio of NaN, showing that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Darius. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Shaco usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Darius. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Darius
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Who is Better, Shaco or Darius?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shaco usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Darius, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Shaco makes an ok counter to Darius.
While Shaco does have a lower win rate than Darius, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Shaco into Dariusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Shaco also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Darius. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Darius matchups, Darius is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Shaco is a somewhat poor counter to Darius. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shaco to counter Darius during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco usually picks up a lot less CS compared to Darius. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Shaco versus Darius build include Shadowflame, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Darius than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when countering Darius with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Darius as Shaco, you should take 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 rune sets we have analyed for Shaco vs Darius counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
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