Shaco vs Kha'Zix
How to Beat Kha'Zix as Shaco
based on 3,871 Shaco vs Kha'Zix matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Kha'Zix Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Kha'Zix Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kha'Zix as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Kha'Zix
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 Kha'Zix
Taste Their Fear deals bonus damage to targets that are isolated. Gain an advantage by fighting near allied minions, champions, or turrets.
Leap and Void Assault have long cooldowns. Kha'Zix is very vulnerable when these are not available.
Shaco vs Kha'Zix Counter Stats
How to Counter Kha'Zix with Shaco in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several influential Shaco vs. Kha'Zix matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kha'Zix’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kha'Zix..
Shaco usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Kha'Zix. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Kha'Zix
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Who is Better, Shaco or Kha'Zix?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually wins when playing against Kha'Zix, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Shaco makes a good counter for Kha'Zix.
While Shaco does have a higher win rate than Kha'Zix, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Shaco into Kha'Zixas his relative depth means that 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 Kha'Zix. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Kha'Zix 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 for Kha'Zix. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Kha'Zix.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco to counter Kha'Zix 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 suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Kha'Zix. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Shaco versus Kha'Zix build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Shaco combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Kha'Zix than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 51.0% when countering Kha'Zix with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Kha'Zix as Shaco, Shaco players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Shaco vs Kha'Zix battles, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
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