Shaco vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Shaco
based on 4,976 Shaco vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Zed Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Shaco Items
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Guide to Countering Zed as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Shaco vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Shaco in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several strategic Shaco vs. Zed matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zed..
Shaco typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Zed. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Zed
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Shaco or Zed?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shaco usually wins when trying to fight Zed, with a 52.3% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes a good counter for Zed.
While Shaco does have a higher win rate compared to Zed, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Shaco into Zedas 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 Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Zed matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Shaco is an above average counter to Zed. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Shaco against Zed.
Other Champion Matchups Against Shaco
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How We Calculated Our Shaco vs Zed Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco to counter Zed during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco most often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Zed. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Shaco versus Zed build consist of Stormsurge, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Zed than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 52.3% when playing against Zed with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Zed as Shaco, Shaco players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Shaco vs Zed fights, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.3% winrate overall.
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