Shaco with Taric
How to Synergize Shaco and Taric
based on 1,031 Shaco with Taric pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Taric Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Taric
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Taric
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 Taric Will Play
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Shaco Taric Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taric as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 Taric. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Taric helps Shaco perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco plays on the same team as Taric, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Taric does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together with Taric on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Taric.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Taric on the same side, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Taric does a poor job of covering Shaco during team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Taric
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Taric?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Shaco that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Taric is a pretty good ally for Shaco. By being on the same team as Shaco, he raises their win rate by 2.5% to 51.9%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Shaco and Taric that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Taric has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be very careful when lining up Taric teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Shaco players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Shaco and Taric together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of AP. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Taric ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to truly master Shaco in order to pair well with Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Shaco and Taric synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Taric than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Shaco had an average winrate of 51.9% helping carry Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing 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. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.9% winrate overall.
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