Shaco vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Shaco
based on 3,223 Shaco vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump
Interrupting the charge up on Absolute Zero will lower the amount of damage your team takes.
Using Summoner Flash is a surefire way to escape Absolute Zero.
Biggest Snowball Ever moves very fast but cannot turn as quickly, so don't try to escape it by running away in a straight line. Instead, make sudden, sharp turns.
Shaco vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Shaco in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some important Shaco versus Nunu & Willump matchup stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nunu & Willump’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nunu & Willump..
Shaco normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Nunu & Willump. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Shaco or Nunu & Willump?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shaco usually fairs equally well when taking on Nunu & Willump, with a 50.3% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes an ok counter for Nunu & Willump.
While Shaco does have a higher win rate than Nunu & Willump, when facing one another, Shaco also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Shaco into Nunu & Willumpas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Shaco also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Shaco is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Shaco is a decent counter to Nunu & Willump. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco in order to counter Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nunu & Willump. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Shaco versus Nunu & Willump build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Nunu & Willump than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 50.3% when countering Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Nunu & Willump 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 builds we have analyed for Shaco vs Nunu & Willump face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
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