Skarner vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Skarner
based on 448 Skarner vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Shaco
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Advice to Win Against Shaco
If Shaco is doing well early-game, it is worth the investment to place Stealth Wards near his Jungle camps.
If Shaco uses Deceive to enter a fight he won't be able to quickly use it again to get away. Work with your team to quickly focus him down.
Skarner vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some important Skarner versus Shaco counter stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shaco’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Shaco..
Skarner often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Shaco. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Shaco
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Who is Better, Skarner or Shaco?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually wins when facing off against Shaco, with a 52.0% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes a good counter for Shaco.
While Skarner does have a higher win rate than Shaco, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Skarner into Shaco.
Additionally, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shaco. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Shaco matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Skarner is a decent counter for Shaco. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Shaco.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Skarner in order to counter Shaco during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Shaco. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Skarner versus Shaco build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Shaco than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 52.0% when countering Shaco with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Shaco as Skarner, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Skarner vs Shaco counters, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.0% winrate overall.
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