Shaco with Kayn
How to Synergize Shaco and Kayn
based on 2,100 Shaco with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Kayn Counter Build
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Core Shaco Items
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Shaco Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kayn helps Shaco perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco is paired with Kayn, he observes a clear improvement in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Kayn supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together with Kayn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kayn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kayn.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Kayn on the same side, he on average receives much less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Kayn does a decent job of covering Shaco in team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Kayn
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no one best champion pairing for Shaco that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Kayn is a good teammate for Shaco. By locking into the same side as Shaco, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 50.9%. This signals that there is a good strategic relationship between Shaco and Kayn that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Kayn has a lower difficulty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Kayn comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Shaco and Kayn together, you may not be giving your team enough magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Additional Information for Shaco Players
How We Calculated Our Shaco Kayn Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shaco to work well with Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Shaco and Kayn synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Kayn than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 50.9% helping carry Kayn with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Shaco players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Kayn with Shaco are presented for all skill levels, merged. To scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.