Varus vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Varus
based on 5,369 Varus vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Varus vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Varus vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Varus
Tips for Playing as Varus against Shaco
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Advice to Win Against Shaco
If Shaco is doing well early-game, it is worth the investment to place Stealth Wards near his Jungle camps.
If Shaco uses Deceive to enter a fight he won't be able to quickly use it again to get away. Work with your team to quickly focus him down.
Varus vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Varus in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several influential Varus against Shaco matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shaco’s ratio of NaN, showing that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Shaco..
Varus typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Shaco. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Varus and Shaco
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Who is Better, Varus or Shaco?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Varus usually fairs equally well when facing off against Shaco, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Varus makes an ok counter for Shaco.
While Varus does have a lower winrate than Shaco, when facing one another, Varus also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Varus into Shaco.
Additionally, Varus has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shaco. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Varus vs Shaco matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Varus is a somewhat poor counter to Shaco. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Varus against Shaco.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Varus in order to counter Shaco during both the lane 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 stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus often racks up much more CS as Shaco. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Varus versus Shaco build include Runaan's Hurricane, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Varus combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Shaco than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Varus boasted an average win rate of 49.4% when playing against Shaco with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Shaco as Varus, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Varus vs Shaco counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.4% winrate overall.
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