Naafiri vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Naafiri
based on 1,760 Naafiri vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Naafiri vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Shaco
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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.
Naafiri vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Naafiri in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several strategic Naafiri vs. Shaco matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shaco’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Shaco..
Naafiri often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their enemy does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Shaco. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Naafiri and Shaco
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Shaco?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually wins when trying to fight Shaco, with a 52.4% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes a good counter for Shaco.
While Naafiri does have a higher win rate than Shaco, when on opposite teams, Naafiri also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Naafiri into Shaco.
Moreover, Naafiri has some 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 isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Shaco matchups, Naafiri is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Naafiri is an above average counter to Shaco. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Naafiri against Shaco.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Naafiri to counter Shaco during both the laning 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 mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri on average accumulates much more CS as Shaco. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Naafiri versus Shaco build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better vs Shaco than with many other common item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average winrate of 52.4% when playing against Shaco with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Shaco as Naafiri, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Naafiri vs Shaco counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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