Shaco vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Shaco
based on 2,282 Shaco vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Gragas
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 Gragas
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
Shaco vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Shaco in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some vital Shaco vs. Gragas matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Gragas..
Shaco usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Gragas. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Gragas
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Who is Better, Shaco or Gragas?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually wins when facing off against Gragas, with a 52.1% win rate. Therefore, Shaco makes a good counter for Gragas.
While Shaco does have a higher winrate than Gragas, when facing one another, Shaco also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Shaco into Gragasas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Shaco also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Gragas matchups, Shaco is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Shaco is an above average counter for Gragas. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Shaco against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to counter Gragas during both the early game 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 stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco usually picks up a lot less CS as Gragas. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Shaco versus Gragas build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Gragas than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 52.1% when playing against Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Gragas as Shaco, Shaco players should take 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 that we analyzed for Shaco vs Gragas clashes, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
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