Shaco vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Shaco
based on 2,204 Shaco vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Azir
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 Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Shaco vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Shaco in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several vital Shaco vs. Azir matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Azir’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Azir..
Shaco normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Azir. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Azir
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Who is Better, Shaco or Azir?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually loses when taking on Azir, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes a bad counter to Azir.
While Shaco does have a lower winrate compared to Azir, when they face off with one another, Shaco also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Shaco into Aziras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Shaco also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. 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 a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Shaco is a somewhat poor counter to Azir. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Shaco against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco in order to counter Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats 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 as Azir. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Shaco versus Azir build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Shaco used at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Azir than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shaco had an average winrate of 48.4% battling Azir with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Azir as Shaco, Shaco players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Shaco vs Azir face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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