Shaco vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Shaco
based on 3,770 Shaco vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Nami
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 Nami
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
Shaco vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Shaco in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some critical Shaco vs. Nami counter statistics that may help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nami’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nami. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Shaco usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Nami. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Nami
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Who is Better, Shaco or Nami?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shaco usually wins when facing off against Nami, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes a good counter for Nami.
While Shaco does have a higher winrate compared to Nami, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Shaco into Namias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Shaco has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nami. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Nami matchups, Shaco is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Shaco is a decent counter for Nami. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to counter Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Nami. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Shaco versus Nami build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Liandry's Torment. When Shaco incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Nami than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shaco had an average winrate of 51.1% when countering Nami with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Nami as Shaco, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Shaco vs Nami LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.1% winrate overall.
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