Irelia vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Irelia
based on 3,705 Irelia vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Shaco
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Irelia in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some influential Irelia versus Shaco matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shaco’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Shaco..
Irelia usually has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Typically, she receives more damage than Shaco. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Irelia and Shaco
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Who is Better, Irelia or Shaco?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually fairs equally well when taking on Shaco, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes an ok counter for Shaco.
While Irelia does have a higher winrate compared to Shaco, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Irelia into Shaco.
Additionally, Irelia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shaco. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Shaco matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Irelia is a decent counter to Shaco. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Irelia against Shaco.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Irelia to counter Shaco during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia typically gets much more CS relative to Shaco. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Irelia versus Shaco build consist of Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Shaco than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 50.7% when playing against Shaco with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Shaco as Irelia, Irelia players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Irelia vs Shaco battles, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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