Alistar vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Alistar
based on 2,170 Alistar vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Shaco
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several important Alistar versus Shaco matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shaco’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Shaco. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Alistar usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Shaco. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Shaco
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Who is Better, Alistar or Shaco?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when taking on Shaco, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes an ok counter for Shaco.
While Alistar does have a higher win rate compared to Shaco, when facing one another, Alistar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Shacoas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shaco. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Shaco matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Shaco. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Shaco.
Other Champion Matchups Against Alistar
Additional Information for Alistar Players
How We Calculated Our Alistar vs Shaco Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar to counter Shaco during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar often racks up a similar amount of CS as Shaco. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Alistar versus Shaco build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Alistar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Shaco than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 50.6% battling Shaco with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Shaco as Alistar, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Alistar vs Shaco counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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