Shaco vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Shaco
based on 4,333 Shaco vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Malzahar
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 Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Shaco vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Shaco in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some significant Shaco against Malzahar matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Malzahar..
Shaco usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Malzahar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Shaco or Malzahar?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shaco usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Malzahar, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes an ok counter for Malzahar.
While Shaco does have a higher win rate compared to Malzahar, when they face off with one another, Shaco also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Shaco into Malzaharas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Shaco also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Malzahar matchups, Shaco is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Shaco is a decent counter to Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco in order to counter Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco on average picks up a lot less CS as Malzahar. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically 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 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 surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Shaco versus Malzahar build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Shaco combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Malzahar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 50.2% battling Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Malzahar as Shaco, you 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. Of all the runes we have analyed for Shaco vs Malzahar face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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