Shaco vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Shaco
based on 4,820 Shaco vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Leona Counter Build
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Core Shaco Items
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Guide to Countering Leona as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Shaco vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Shaco in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several vital Shaco versus Leona matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Leona. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Shaco often has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Leona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Leona
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Shaco or Leona?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shaco usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Shaco makes a poor counter to Leona.
While Shaco does have a lower win rate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Shaco into Leonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Shaco has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Shaco is a trash counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Leona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Shaco
Additional Information for Shaco Players
How We Calculated Our Shaco vs Leona Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco to counter Leona during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Leona. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Shaco versus Leona build include Shadowflame, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Leona than with most other common builds. In fact, Shaco had an average winrate of 47.7% when playing against Leona with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Leona as Shaco, Shaco players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Shaco vs Leona battles, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.7% winrate overall.
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