Shaco vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Shaco
based on 2,995 Shaco vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Aphelios
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 Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Shaco vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Shaco in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some valuable Shaco against Aphelios counter statistics that can help you understand the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Shaco typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Aphelios. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Shaco or Aphelios?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shaco usually fairs equally well when taking on Aphelios, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Shaco makes an ok counter to Aphelios.
While Shaco does have a lower winrate than Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Shaco also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Shaco into Apheliosas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Shaco also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Shaco is a somewhat poor counter for Aphelios. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco in order to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Aphelios. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Shaco versus Aphelios build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Shaco used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Aphelios than with most other common builds. In fact, Shaco had an average winrate of 49.3% when playing against Aphelios with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Aphelios as Shaco, Shaco players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Shaco vs Aphelios matchups, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.3% win rate overall.
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