Shaco vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Shaco
based on 3,069 Shaco vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Soraka Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Shaco Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Shaco vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Shaco in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several important Shaco versus Soraka matchup stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Soraka. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Shaco usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Soraka. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Soraka
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Shaco or Soraka?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Soraka, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Shaco makes an ok counter for Soraka.
While Shaco does have a lower winrate compared to Soraka, when they face off with one another, Shaco also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Shaco into Sorakaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Shaco has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Shaco is a somewhat poor counter to Soraka. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Shaco against Soraka.
Other Champion Matchups Against Shaco
Additional Information for Shaco Players
How We Calculated Our Shaco vs Soraka Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco to counter Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Soraka. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Shaco versus Soraka build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Shaco included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Soraka than with most other common item sets. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 49.5% when countering Soraka with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Soraka as Shaco, Shaco players should take 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 that we analyzed for Shaco vs Soraka matchups, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Soraka as Shaco are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.