Shaco vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Shaco
based on 1,641 Shaco vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Shaco vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Shaco in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some important Shaco vs. Zilean matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zilean. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Shaco typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Zilean. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Zilean
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Who is Better, Shaco or Zilean?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually loses when taking on Zilean, with a 47.3% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes a poor counter for Zilean.
While Shaco does have a lower win rate than Zilean, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Shaco into Zileanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Shaco also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Shaco is a bad counter for Zilean. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Shaco against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco to counter Zilean during both the lane 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco usually gets less CS as Zilean. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Shaco versus Zilean 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 performed significantly better against Zilean than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 47.3% when playing against Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Zilean as Shaco, you 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 Zilean face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.3% winrate overall.
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