Kassadin with Shaco
How to Synergize Kassadin and Shaco
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Kassadin Shaco Synergy Summary
Best Kassadin vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Shaco
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shaco. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shaco helps Kassadin perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kassadin plays on the same team as Shaco, he gets a clear improvement in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Shaco supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played with Shaco on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shaco.
Additionally, when Kassadin plays with Shaco on the same side, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Kassadin in team fights.
Synergies between Kassadin and Shaco
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Kassadin that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Shaco is a good companion for Kassadin. By playing on the same side as Kassadin, he increases their win rate by 2.1% to 52.1%. This signals that there is a good strategic relationship between Kassadin and Shaco that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Shaco has a greater difficulty than Kassadin. That means you should be cautious when arranging Shaco allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Kassadin and Shaco together, you may not be providing your other allies enough utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Shaco teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kassadin in order to synergize with Shaco during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Kassadin and Shaco synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Shaco than with most other common builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average winrate of 52.1% helping carry Shaco with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
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