Shaco with Gwen
How to Synergize Shaco and Gwen
based on 2,389 Shaco with Gwen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Gwen Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Shaco Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gwen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gwen helps Shaco perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco is an ally to Gwen, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This could indicate that Gwen doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played alongside Gwen 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 Gwen.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Gwen on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Shaco during team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Gwen
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no ideal companion for Shaco that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Gwen is a not very good companion for Shaco. By locking into the same team as Shaco, she drops their win rate by -2.8% to 46.6%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Shaco and Gwen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gwen has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Gwen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, Shaco players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Shaco and Gwen together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of tankyness. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Gwen ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Shaco to synergize with Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Shaco and Gwen synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Shaco included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Gwen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 46.6% when playing alongside Gwen with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Shaco players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.6% winrate overall.
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