Alistar with Shaco
How to Synergize Alistar and Shaco
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Alistar Shaco Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Shaco
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Shaco Will Play
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.
Alistar Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shaco. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shaco helps Alistar perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Shaco, he sees a clear improvement in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Shaco provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside Shaco on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shaco. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shaco.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Shaco on the same side, he often receives more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Alistar in teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Shaco
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Alistar that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Shaco is a very typical ally for Alistar. By locking into the same side as Alistar, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 49.5%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Alistar and Shaco that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Shaco has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players must be very careful when arranging Shaco teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, Alistar players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Alistar and Shaco together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Shaco ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to work well with Shaco during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Alistar and Shaco synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Shaco than with most other typical builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shaco with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Alistar players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
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