Shaco vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Shaco
based on 8,114 Shaco vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Akali
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Shaco vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Shaco in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several important Shaco versus Akali counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akali’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Akali..
Shaco often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Akali. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Akali
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Who is Better, Shaco or Akali?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually wins when taking on Akali, with a 51.6% win rate. As a result, Shaco makes a good counter to Akali.
While Shaco does have a higher winrate than Akali, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Shaco into Akalias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Shaco also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Akali matchups, Shaco is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Shaco is a decent counter for Akali. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Shaco against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco in order to counter Akali 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 stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco usually gets a lot less CS compared to Akali. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Shaco versus Akali build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Shaco incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Akali than with most other common builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 51.6% battling Akali with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Akali as Shaco, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Shaco vs Akali counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.6% winrate overall.
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