Shaco vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Shaco
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Shaco vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Gragas Counter Build
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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
How to Counter Gragas with Shaco in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some important Shaco vs. Gragas matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities 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, demonstrating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gragas..
Shaco often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Gragas. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Gragas
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Who is Better, Shaco or Gragas?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shaco usually wins when trying to fight Gragas, with a 54.2% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes a great counter for Gragas.
While Shaco does have a much higher winrate compared to Gragas, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Shaco into Gragasas his relative depth means 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 Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Gragas matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Shaco is a great counter for Gragas. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Shaco against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shaco to counter Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco often picks up a lot less CS relative to Gragas. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Shaco versus Gragas build include Duskblade of Draktharr, Essence Reaver, and The Collector. When Shaco bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Gragas than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 54.2% battling Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Gragas 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 runes we have analyed for Shaco vs Gragas counters, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.2% win rate overall.
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