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.
The stats provided here emphasize several valuable Zeri vs. Shaco matchup stats that can help you explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shaco’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Shaco..
Zeri often has a similar longest kill spree as their counter does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Shaco. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zeri usually loses when trying to fight Shaco, with a 45.9% win rate. Therefore, Zeri makes a bad counter to Shaco.
While Zeri does have a much lower win rate compared to Shaco, when on opposite teams, Zeri also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Zeri into Shaco.
Moreover, Zeri also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shaco. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Shaco matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zeri is a bad counter to Shaco. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zeri against Shaco.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zeri in order to counter Shaco during both the early game 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 mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri most often gets much more CS compared to Shaco. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Zeri versus Shaco build include Bloodthirster, Experimental Hexplate, and Runaan's Hurricane. When Zeri used at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better vs. Shaco than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zeri had an average winrate of 45.9% when countering Shaco with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Shaco as Zeri, Zeri players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Zeri vs Shaco counters, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.9% winrate overall.
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