Shaco with Gragas
How to Synergize Shaco and Gragas
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Shaco Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Gragas
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 Understand How Gragas Will Play
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.
Shaco Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shaco sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gragas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gragas helps Shaco perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco is an ally to Gragas, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Gragas provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played alongside Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Gragas on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Gragas does a decent job of protecting Shaco during teamfights.
Synergies between Shaco and Gragas
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Shaco that will always be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Gragas is a below average ally for Shaco. By locking into the same side as Shaco, he drops their win rate by -1.8% to 47.6%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Shaco and Gragas that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Gragas has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Gragas allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Shaco players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Shaco and Gragas together, you will not be granting your team very much utility. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shaco in order to synergize with Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Shaco and Gragas synergy build include Profane Hydra, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Gragas than with many other typical builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 47.6% helping carry Gragas with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, 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 builds players chose for Shaco and Gragas pairings, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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