Gragas with Shaco
How to Synergize Gragas and Shaco
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Gragas Shaco Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Shaco
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shaco. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shaco helps Gragas perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Shaco, he observes a noticable increase in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Shaco supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Shaco on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shaco.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Shaco on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Shaco does a decent job of protecting Gragas in team fights.
Synergies between Gragas and Shaco
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no ideal ally for Gragas that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Shaco is a very typical teammate for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 47.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Gragas and Shaco that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Shaco has a much greater difficulty compared to Gragas. That means Gragas players must be cautious when enlisting Shaco teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Gragas and Shaco together, you may not be providing your team enough support. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Shaco teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gragas in order to work well with Shaco during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Gragas and Shaco synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Shaco than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 47.6% helping carry Shaco with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Gragas and Shaco pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.6% winrate overall.
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