K'Sante vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as K'Sante
based on 2,052 K'Sante vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Shaco
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several vital K'Sante against Shaco counter stats that may help us understand the differences between the two. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shaco’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Shaco..
K'Sante often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than their foe does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Shaco. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Shaco
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Shaco?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when playing against Shaco, with a 48.2% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes a bad counter for Shaco.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate compared to Shaco, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking K'Sante into Shacoas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Shaco matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a somewhat poor counter to Shaco. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Shaco.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master K'Sante in order to counter Shaco during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante most often racks up much more CS as Shaco. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your K'Sante versus Shaco build include Unending Despair, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante used at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better vs Shaco than with many other common item sets. In fact, K'Sante had an average winrate of 48.2% when countering Shaco with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Shaco as K'Sante, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for K'Sante vs Shaco battles, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.2% win rate overall.
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