Shaco vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Shaco
based on 5,736 Shaco vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Zyra Counter Build
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Core Shaco Items
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Zyra
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 Zyra
Moving closer to Zyra can be a smart move if she places plants too far away from herself.
Moving the fight to a different area will deprive Zyra of accumulated seeds.
Plants take fixed damage from attacks and effects, similar to wards. They also expire quickly on their own.
Seeds placed by Zyra's W are larger, a different color, and grant a small amount of vision to her team.
Zyra's seeds can be destroyed by stepping on them. If she tries to grow them as you do, dodge back at the last moment.
Shaco vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Shaco in LoL
The stats provided here feature several valuable Shaco versus Zyra matchup stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zyra. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Shaco often has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Zyra. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Zyra
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Who is Better, Shaco or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually loses when taking on Zyra, with a 46.1% win rate. As a result, Shaco makes a bad counter to Zyra.
While Shaco does have a lower winrate compared to Zyra, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Shaco into Zyraas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Shaco has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Shaco is a terribly counter for Zyra. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to counter Zyra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco often racks up less CS compared to Zyra. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Shaco versus Zyra build consist of Shadowflame, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Zyra than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 46.1% battling Zyra with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Zyra as Shaco, you should use 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 combinations that we analyzed for Shaco vs Zyra counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Zyra as Shaco are given for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.