Leona vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Leona
based on 4,820 Leona vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Shaco
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Leona in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some significant Leona against Shaco counter stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shaco’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Shaco. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Shaco. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Shaco
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Who is Better, Leona or Shaco?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when trying to fight Shaco, with a 52.3% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a good counter for Shaco.
While Leona does have a higher win rate compared to Shaco, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Shaco.
Additionally, Leona also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shaco. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Shaco matchups, Leona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Leona is an above average counter for Shaco. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Shaco.
Other Champion Matchups Against Leona
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How We Calculated Our Leona vs Shaco Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Shaco. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Leona versus Shaco build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Shaco than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 52.3% when countering Shaco with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Shaco as Leona, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Leona vs Shaco counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.3% winrate overall.
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