Shaco vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Shaco
based on 1,263 Shaco vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Taric
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 Taric
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
Shaco vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Shaco in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some strategic Shaco vs. Taric matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taric’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Shaco often has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Taric. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Taric
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Who is Better, Shaco or Taric?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually loses when playing against Taric, with a 46.3% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes a poor counter for Taric.
While Shaco does have a lower winrate than Taric, when facing one another, Shaco also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Shaco into Taricas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Shaco also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a much 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 garbage counter to Taric. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Shaco against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Shaco to counter Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Taric. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Shaco versus Taric build include Profane Hydra, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Taric than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 46.3% when playing against Taric with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Taric as Shaco, you 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 sets players used for Shaco vs Taric face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.3% win rate overall.
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