Shaco vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Shaco
based on 5,093 Shaco vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Thresh
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 Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Shaco vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Shaco in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some important Shaco vs. Thresh counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Thresh. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Shaco usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Thresh. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Thresh
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Who is Better, Shaco or Thresh?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually wins when trying to fight Thresh, with a 51.3% win rate. Therefore, Shaco makes a good counter for Thresh.
While Shaco does have a higher winrate compared to Thresh, when they face off with one another, Shaco also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Shaco into Threshas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Shaco has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Thresh. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Thresh matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Shaco is a decent counter for Thresh. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco to counter Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Thresh. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Shaco versus Thresh build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Liandry's Torment. When Shaco included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Thresh than with many other common builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 51.3% battling Thresh with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Thresh as Shaco, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Shaco vs Thresh counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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