Shaco vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Shaco
based on 1,801 Shaco vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Shaco vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Shaco in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several significant Shaco vs. Kassadin matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kassadin..
Shaco normally has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Kassadin. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Shaco or Kassadin?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shaco usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Kassadin, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Shaco makes an ok counter for Kassadin.
While Shaco does have a higher winrate compared to Kassadin, when facing one another, Shaco also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Shaco into Kassadinas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Shaco has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Kassadin matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Shaco is a decent counter to Kassadin. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Shaco to counter Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco often racks up a lot less CS relative to Kassadin. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Shaco versus Kassadin build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Kassadin than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 50.2% battling Kassadin with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Kassadin 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 combinations we have analyed for Shaco vs Kassadin fights, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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