Shaco vs Viktor
How to Beat Viktor as Shaco
based on 1,857 Shaco vs Viktor matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Viktor Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viktor as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Viktor
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 Viktor
Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
Shaco vs Viktor Counter Stats
How to Counter Viktor with Shaco in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several valuable Shaco against Viktor counter stats that can help you interpret the differences between the two. Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Viktor’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Viktor..
Shaco often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Viktor. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate 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 Viktor
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Who is Better, Shaco or Viktor?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shaco usually loses when facing off against Viktor, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes a bad counter to Viktor.
While Shaco does have a lower winrate compared to Viktor, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Shaco into Viktoras 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 CC and other utility, a similar amount to Viktor. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Viktor matchups, Viktor is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Shaco is a terribly counter for Viktor. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Shaco against Viktor.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Shaco to counter Viktor during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco often gets a lot less CS relative to Viktor. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Shaco versus Viktor build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Shaco included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Viktor than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 46.9% when countering Viktor with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Viktor 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 sets players used for Shaco vs Viktor clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.9% winrate overall.
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