Shaco vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Shaco
based on 4,030 Shaco vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Nasus
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 Nasus
Nasus is prone to being kited. Try not to engage him at full Health.
Max rank Wither is a very effective counter to Attack Damage characters, so try to avoid getting caught alone by it.
While transformed by his ultimate, Nasus is stronger than most champions in the League. Engage him only if you have a clear advantage.
Shaco vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Shaco in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Shaco versus Nasus counter stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nasus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nasus..
Shaco usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Nasus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Nasus
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Who is Better, Shaco or Nasus?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually loses when facing off against Nasus, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Shaco makes a bad counter for Nasus.
While Shaco does have a lower winrate compared to Nasus, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Shaco into Nasusas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Shaco also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nasus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Nasus matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Shaco is a somewhat poor counter to Nasus. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Shaco against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Shaco in order to counter Nasus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Nasus. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Shaco versus Nasus build include Profane Hydra, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Nasus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 48.7% when playing against Nasus with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Nasus as Shaco, Shaco players 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 players chose for Shaco vs Nasus counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
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