Shaco vs Xerath
How to Beat Xerath as Shaco
based on 5,452 Shaco vs Xerath matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Xerath Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xerath as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Xerath
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 Xerath
Xerath's range can be intimidating, but most champions who close distance with him can trade favorably.
Banshee's Veil will make it much harder for Xerath to land Shocking Orb on you.
Xerath takes a long time to engage Rite of the Arcane. Watch for his spellcast animation and start dodging.
Shaco vs Xerath Counter Stats
How to Counter Xerath with Shaco in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several valuable Shaco against Xerath matchup stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xerath’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Xerath..
Shaco often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Xerath. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Xerath
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Who is Better, Shaco or Xerath?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shaco usually loses when playing against Xerath, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Shaco makes a poor counter for Xerath.
While Shaco does have a lower winrate than Xerath, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Shaco into Xerathas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Shaco has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xerath. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Xerath matchups, Xerath is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Shaco is a somewhat poor counter to Xerath. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Shaco against Xerath.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Shaco in order to counter Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Xerath. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Shaco versus Xerath build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Shaco incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Xerath than with many other common builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when countering Xerath with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Xerath as Shaco, Shaco players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Shaco vs Xerath face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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