Shaco vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Shaco
based on 2,084 Shaco vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Shaco Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Shaco vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Shaco in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some important Shaco against Heimerdinger matchup statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Heimerdinger..
Shaco typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Heimerdinger. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Heimerdinger
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Shaco or Heimerdinger?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shaco usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Heimerdinger, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes an ok counter for Heimerdinger.
While Shaco does have a lower win rate than Heimerdinger, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Shaco into Heimerdingeras 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 utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Shaco is a somewhat poor counter to Heimerdinger. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Heimerdinger.
Other Champion Matchups Against Shaco
Additional Information for Shaco Players
How We Calculated Our Shaco vs Heimerdinger Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Heimerdinger. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Shaco versus Heimerdinger build consist of Edge of Night, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Heimerdinger than with most other common builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 49.7% battling Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Heimerdinger 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. Of all the rune builds players used for Shaco vs Heimerdinger battles, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Heimerdinger as Shaco are displayed for every ranked division. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.