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How to Win Shaco vs Ziggs Counter MatchupShaco is in the a tier of champions

Shaco vs Ziggs

How to Beat Ziggs as Shaco in LoLShaco is in the b tier of champions
Assassin
Mage

How to Beat Ziggs as Shaco

based on 2,007 Shaco vs Ziggs matchups
Win Rate
51.9 %
K/D/A
2.52
Pick Rate
1.5 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

At MOBA Champion, we evaluate millions of ranked League rounds each and every week. In our dataset, Shaco faced Ziggs 2007 times. Having so many games with Shaco versus Ziggs gives us a lot of faith in our capacity to prepare informative data and a pro build to wreck Ziggs. This particular champ pairing is fairly rare. Shaco encounters Ziggs in only 1.5% of his games.

Shaco vs Ziggs Matchup Summary

Shaco has done a decent job of beating Ziggs. Typically, he wins a acceptable 51.9% of the time the champs face off with each other in. In Shaco vs Ziggs games, Shaco’s team is 0.1% more likely to get first blood, implying that he most likely will be able to get first blood against Ziggs.

Best Shaco vs Ziggs Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Health PotionWorld Atlas

Early Items

~5 Mins
BootsAmplifying Tome

Core Shaco Items

~22 Mins
Zaz'Zak's RealmspikeLiandry's TormentLuden's Companion

Optional Items

Edge of NightStormsurgeShadowflameThe Collector

Summoner Spells

summonerexhaust summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Shaco to level upw
>
Second ability for Shaco to level upe
>
Last skill for Shaco to max outq

Runes

DominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactEyeball CollectionRelentless Hunter
PrecisionLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Shaco's passive ability p
Shaco's q ability q
Shaco's w ability w
Shaco's e ability e
Shaco's ultimate ability r
1
W
2
Q
3
E
4
W
5
W
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R
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W
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E
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W
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E
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R
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Q
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R

Guide to Countering Ziggs as Shaco

Tips for Playing as Shaco against Ziggs

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 Ziggs

Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.

Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.

Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.

Shaco vs Ziggs Counter Stats

Shaco Image
Win Rate
51.9 %
VS
Win Rate
48.1 %
Ziggs Image
7.3
< Kills >
5.2
6.1
< Deaths >
6.2
8.1
< Assists >
7.7
1.72
< Killing Sprees >
1.18
37
< Minions Killed >
172
1.05
< Dragons Killed >
0.09
0.38
< Inhibitors >
0.54
7,787
< Physical Damage >
775
10,097
< Magic Damage >
23,512
1,651
< True Damage >
336
19,536
< Damage Dealt >
24,624
26,870
< Damage Taken >
18,791
11,557
< Gold Earned >
11,774
1.08
< Towers >
2.77
0.23
< Baron Takedowns >
0.03
9,235
< Total Healing >
1,670
13,386
< Experience >
13,931
33
< Vision Score >
22
11
< Wards Placed >
11
605
< Time Dealing CC >
261

How to Counter Ziggs with Shaco in LoL

The stat comparisons provided here feature several influential Shaco versus Ziggs matchup stats that can help you understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ziggs..

Shaco often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Ziggs. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.

Differences between Shaco and Ziggs

Damage Types Compared

Shaco
Ziggs
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Shaco
Ziggs

Who is Better, Shaco or Ziggs?

Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shaco usually wins when facing off against Ziggs, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes a good counter for Ziggs.

While Shaco does have a higher win rate compared to Ziggs, when they face off with one another, Shaco also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Shaco into Ziggsas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.

Moreover, Shaco also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Ziggs matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.

Shaco is a decent counter to Ziggs. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Ziggs.

Other Champion Matchups Against Shaco

Shaco Loses Against

NilahNilah44.2% winrateLilliaLillia45.5% winrateBriarBriar45.7% winrateZyraZyra46.1% winrate

Shaco Wins Against

YuumiYuumi55.5% winrateNidaleeNidalee54.6% winrateZeriZeri54.1% winrateZoeZoe54.1% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

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Additional Information for Shaco Players

How We Calculated Our Shaco vs Ziggs Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Ziggs as Shaco, we analyzed 2,007 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Ziggs as Shaco comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

Other Useful Resources

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to counter Ziggs during both the laning 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 shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.

Shaco most often gets a lot less CS compared to Ziggs. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.

The best items to prioritize in your Shaco versus Ziggs build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Ziggs than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 51.9% when countering Ziggs with these items in his kit.

To have the best probability of vanquishing Ziggs 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. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Shaco vs Ziggs LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.9% win rate overall.

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