Akshan vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Akshan
based on 2,553 Akshan vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Shaco
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Shaco
If Shaco is doing well early-game, it is worth the investment to place Stealth Wards near his Jungle camps.
If Shaco uses Deceive to enter a fight he won't be able to quickly use it again to get away. Work with your team to quickly focus him down.
Akshan vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some strategic Akshan versus Shaco matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between the pair. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shaco’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Shaco..
Akshan normally has a similar longest killing spree as their counter does. On average, they receives less damage than Shaco. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Shaco
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Who is Better, Akshan or Shaco?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually fairs equally well when facing off against Shaco, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes an ok counter for Shaco.
While Akshan does have a higher winrate than Shaco, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Akshan into Shaco.
Furthermore, Akshan also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shaco. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Shaco matchups, Akshan is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Akshan is a decent counter to Shaco. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Shaco.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akshan in order to counter Shaco during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan usually picks up much more CS relative to Shaco. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Akshan versus Shaco build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan combined at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better when fighting Shaco than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 50.7% when countering Shaco with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Shaco as Akshan, Akshan players should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Akshan vs Shaco counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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