Viktor with Shaco
How to Synergize Viktor and Shaco
based on 1,889 Viktor with Shaco pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Viktor Shaco Synergy Summary
Best Viktor vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Viktor and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Viktor with Shaco
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
Advice to Understand How Shaco Will Play
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.
Viktor Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Viktor in LoL
The Viktor Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Viktor sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shaco. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shaco helps Viktor perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Viktor is an ally to Shaco, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Shaco supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played alongside Shaco on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shaco. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shaco.
Moreover, when Viktor plays with Shaco on the same team, he often takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Viktor during team fights.
Synergies between Viktor and Shaco
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Is Viktor better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no perfect synergy for Viktor that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Shaco is a not very good ally for Viktor. By playing on the same team as Viktor, he decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 48.8%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Viktor and Shaco that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Shaco has a lower difficulty than Viktor. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Shaco comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Viktor and Shaco together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Shaco ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 Viktor in order to work well with Shaco during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Viktor and Shaco synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Shaco than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Viktor had an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Shaco with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Viktor players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Shaco with Viktor are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.