Illaoi vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Illaoi
based on 2,463 Illaoi vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Shaco
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Illaoi in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some strategic Illaoi versus Shaco matchup stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shaco’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Shaco..
Illaoi normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Shaco. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Shaco
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Shaco?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when trying to fight Shaco, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes a good counter to Shaco.
While Illaoi does have a higher winrate compared to Shaco, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Shaco.
Furthermore, Illaoi also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shaco. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Shaco matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter to Shaco. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Shaco.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to counter Shaco during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi often picks up much more CS as Shaco. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Illaoi versus Shaco build include Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Shaco than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 51.8% battling Shaco with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Shaco as Illaoi, Illaoi players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Illaoi vs Shaco counters, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.8% win rate overall.
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