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How to Win Shaco vs Gragas Counter MatchupShaco is in the a tier of champions

Shaco vs Gragas

How to Beat Gragas as Shaco in LoLShaco is in the a tier of champions
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How to Beat Gragas as Shaco

based on 2,282 Shaco vs Gragas matchups
Win Rate
52.1 %
K/D/A
2.52
Pick Rate
1.7 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We produce our matchup stats from the millions of ranked LoL matches that we get from Riot Games each and every week. Our guide on how to beat Gragas as Shaco came out of an analysis of 2282 ranked games where both champs battled each other. This particular champ pairing is fairly rare. Shaco encounters Gragas in only 1.7% of his games.

Shaco vs Gragas Matchup Summary

Shaco does a good job of beating Gragas. Normally, he wins a fantastic 52.1% of games the champs face each other in. In Shaco against Gragas rounds, Shaco’s team is 0.1% more probable to earn first blood, implying that he most likely will get first blood against Gragas.

Best Shaco vs Gragas Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Health PotionWorld Atlas

Early Items

~5 Mins
Sapphire CrystalAmplifying Tome

Core Shaco Items

~22 Mins
Serylda's GrudgeVoltaic CycloswordOpportunity

Optional Items

Edge of NightShadowflameZaz'Zak's RealmspikeYoumuu's Ghostblade

Summoner Spells

summonerexhaust summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Shaco to level upw
>
Second ability for Shaco to level upe
>
Last skill for Shaco to max outq

Runes

DominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactEyeball CollectionRelentless Hunter
PrecisionLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Shaco's passive ability p
Shaco's q ability q
Shaco's w ability w
Shaco's e ability e
Shaco's ultimate ability r
1
W
2
Q
3
E
4
W
5
W
6
R
7
W
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E
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W
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E
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E
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Q
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Q
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R

Guide to Countering Gragas as Shaco

Tips for Playing as Shaco against Gragas

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 Gragas

Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.

Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.

Shaco vs Gragas Counter Stats

Shaco Image
Win Rate
52.1 %
VS
Win Rate
47.9 %
Gragas Image
7.3
< Kills >
6.2
6.3
< Deaths >
6.2
8.6
< Assists >
7
1.72
< Killing Sprees >
1.45
35
< Minions Killed >
112
1.05
< Dragons Killed >
0.61
0.41
< Inhibitors >
0.38
7,762
< Physical Damage >
1,476
10,396
< Magic Damage >
19,022
1,638
< True Damage >
636
19,797
< Damage Dealt >
21,135
26,622
< Damage Taken >
31,618
11,620
< Gold Earned >
11,707
1.15
< Towers >
1.45
0.24
< Baron Takedowns >
0.14
9,121
< Total Healing >
13,153
13,311
< Experience >
14,578
32
< Vision Score >
22
10
< Wards Placed >
9
606
< Time Dealing CC >
442

How to Counter Gragas with Shaco in LoL

The stats shown on this page clarify some vital Shaco vs. Gragas matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Gragas..

Shaco usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Gragas. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.

Differences between Shaco and Gragas

Damage Types Compared

Shaco
Gragas
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Shaco
Gragas

Who is Better, Shaco or Gragas?

Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually wins when facing off against Gragas, with a 52.1% win rate. Therefore, Shaco makes a good counter for Gragas.

While Shaco does have a higher winrate than Gragas, when facing one another, Shaco also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Shaco into Gragasas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.

Furthermore, Shaco also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Gragas matchups, Shaco is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.

Shaco is an above average counter for Gragas. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Shaco against Gragas.

Additional Information for Shaco Players

How We Calculated Our Shaco vs Gragas Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Gragas as Shaco, we analyzed 2,282 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Gragas as Shaco comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to counter Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Shaco usually picks up a lot less CS as Gragas. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often 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 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 exceed the numbers shown here to do well.

The most crucial items to prioritize in your Shaco versus Gragas build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Gragas than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 52.1% when playing against Gragas with these items in his kit.

To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Gragas as Shaco, Shaco players 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. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Shaco vs Gragas clashes, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.

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