Zed vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Zed
based on 4,976 Zed vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Shaco
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several important Zed versus Shaco counter statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between these two champions. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shaco’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Shaco..
Zed often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Shaco. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Shaco
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Who is Better, Zed or Shaco?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when playing against Shaco, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Zed makes a bad counter for Shaco.
While Zed does have a lower winrate than Shaco, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Zed into Shacoas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shaco. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Shaco matchups, Shaco is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Zed is a terribly counter for Shaco. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Shaco.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to counter Shaco during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed usually gets much more CS relative to Shaco. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Zed versus Shaco build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Zed incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Shaco than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when countering Shaco with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Shaco as Zed, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Zed vs Shaco LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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