Shaco with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Shaco and Rek'Sai
based on 285 Shaco with Rek'Sai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Starter Items
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Core Shaco Items
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Shaco Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rek'Sai helps Shaco perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco is paired with Rek'Sai, he sees a sizeable uptick in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Rek'Sai helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played alongside Rek'Sai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rek'Sai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rek'Sai.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Rek'Sai on the same team, he typically receives much less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Rek'Sai does a decent job of covering Shaco during team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Rek'Sai
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no perfect companion for Shaco that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Rek'Sai is a superb ally for Shaco. By being on the same side as Shaco, he increases their win rate by 5.7% to 55.1%. This demonstrates that there is a strong synergy between Shaco and Rek'Sai that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Rek'Sai has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Rek'Sai comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Shaco and Rek'Sai together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of AP. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Rek'Sai ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 truly master Shaco in order to synergize with Rek'Sai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Shaco and Rek'Sai synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Rek'Sai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 55.1% when playing alongside Rek'Sai with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Shaco and Rek'Sai pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 55.1% winrate overall.
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