Shaco vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Shaco
based on 5,369 Shaco vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Shaco vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Shaco in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several valuable Shaco versus Varus matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Varus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Varus..
Shaco typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Varus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Varus
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Who is Better, Shaco or Varus?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shaco usually fairs equally well when playing against Varus, with a 50.6% win rate. As a result, Shaco makes an ok counter to Varus.
While Shaco does have a higher win rate than Varus, when facing one another, Shaco also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Shaco into Varusas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Shaco also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Varus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Varus matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Shaco is a decent counter for Varus. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Shaco against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco in order to counter Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco typically gets a lot less CS compared to Varus. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Shaco versus Varus build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Shaco incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Varus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 50.6% battling Varus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Varus as Shaco, Shaco players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Shaco vs Varus counters, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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