Shaco vs Lux
How to Beat Lux as Shaco
based on 13,846 Shaco vs Lux matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Lux Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lux as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Lux
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 Lux
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
Shaco vs Lux Counter Stats
How to Counter Lux with Shaco in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several strategic Shaco vs. Lux matchup statistics that may help us grasp the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lux’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lux..
Shaco usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Lux. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Lux
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Who is Better, Shaco or Lux?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually fairs equally well when facing off against Lux, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Shaco makes an ok counter for Lux.
While Shaco does have a higher winrate compared to Lux, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Shaco into Luxas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Shaco also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lux. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Lux matchups, Shaco is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Shaco is a decent counter for Lux. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Shaco against Lux.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco in order to counter Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather 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 typically picks up less CS as Lux. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Shaco versus Lux build consist of Infinity Edge, Essence Reaver, and The Collector. When Shaco included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Lux than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 50.1% battling Lux with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Lux as Shaco, Shaco players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Shaco vs Lux matchups, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
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