Shaco vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Shaco
based on 4,008 Shaco vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Shaco vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Shaco in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several vital Shaco against Kayle matchup stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayle’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kayle..
Shaco typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kayle. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Kayle
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Who is Better, Shaco or Kayle?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shaco usually loses when taking on Kayle, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes a poor counter to Kayle.
While Shaco does have a lower winrate than Kayle, when they face off with one another, Shaco also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Shaco into Kayleas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Shaco has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Shaco is a bad counter to Kayle. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Shaco against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco to counter Kayle during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco on average racks up a lot less CS compared to Kayle. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Shaco versus Kayle build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Liandry's Torment. When Shaco included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Kayle than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 47.0% when playing against Kayle with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Kayle as Shaco, Shaco players should equip 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 combinations players used for Shaco vs Kayle counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kayle as Shaco are given for all ranked divisions. To filter the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.