Shaco vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Shaco
based on 448 Shaco vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Skarner Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Shaco Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Skarner
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 Skarner
Skarner can't harm you very much outside of short range, so stay away from him!
Skarner is especially dangerous when inside Crystal Spire zones his team controls. Try to capture them ahead of time if a fight may break out around them.
Skarner's Move Speed is increased as long as his shield, Crystalline Exoskeleton, persists. Attack him to lower his speed.
Shaco vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Shaco in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several vital Shaco against Skarner counter statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Skarner..
Shaco often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Skarner. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Skarner
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Who is Better, Shaco or Skarner?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually loses when facing off against Skarner, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Shaco makes a bad counter to Skarner.
While Shaco does have a lower win rate than Skarner, when facing one another, Shaco also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Shaco into Skarneras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Shaco has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Shaco is a bad counter for Skarner. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Skarner.
Other Champion Matchups Against Shaco
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How We Calculated Our Shaco vs Skarner Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Shaco to counter Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Skarner. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Shaco versus Skarner build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Skarner than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Shaco had an average winrate of 48.0% battling Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Skarner as Shaco, Shaco players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Shaco vs Skarner counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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