Shaco vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Shaco
based on 4,798 Shaco vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Shaco vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Shaco in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several valuable Shaco against Garen counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between these two champs. Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Shaco often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Garen
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Who is Better, Shaco or Garen?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shaco usually fairs equally well when taking on Garen, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Shaco does have a lower win rate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Shaco into Garenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Shaco has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Shaco is a somewhat poor counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Shaco against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco usually picks up a lot less CS compared to Garen. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Shaco versus Garen build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Shaco included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Garen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Shaco had an average winrate of 49.6% when countering Garen with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Garen as Shaco, Shaco players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Shaco vs Garen counters, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
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