Shaco with Kassadin
How to Synergize Shaco and Kassadin
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Shaco Kassadin Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
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.
Shaco Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kassadin helps Shaco perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco tries to synergize with Kassadin, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Kassadin does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played with Kassadin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Kassadin on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Kassadin does a poor job of covering Shaco in teamfights.
Synergies between Shaco and Kassadin
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no perfect companion for Shaco that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Kassadin is a good ally for Shaco. By being on the same side as Shaco, he improves their win rate by 2.7% to 52.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Shaco and Kassadin that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Kassadin has a lower difficulty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Kassadin allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Shaco players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Shaco and Kassadin together, you may not be giving your other teammates much crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Kassadin teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to synergize with Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Shaco and Kassadin synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Shaco included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Kassadin than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 52.1% helping carry Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Shaco players should equip 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 that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
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