Shaco vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Shaco
based on 1,196 Shaco vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Kalista Counter Build
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Core Shaco Items
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Shaco vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Shaco in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several valuable Shaco vs. Kalista matchup statistics that may help us grasp the differences between these two champions. Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Shaco typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Kalista
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Who is Better, Shaco or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shaco usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 52.3% win rate. As a result, Shaco makes a good counter for Kalista.
While Shaco does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Shaco into Kalistaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Shaco also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Kalista 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Shaco is a good counter to Kalista. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco on average picks up a lot less CS as Kalista. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Shaco versus Kalista build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Kalista than with many other common builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 52.3% when playing against Kalista with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Kalista 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. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Shaco vs Kalista counters, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kalista as Shaco are presented for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.