Shaco with Brand
How to Synergize Shaco and Brand
based on 5,076 Shaco with Brand pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Brand Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Brand
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Brand
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 Understand How Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Shaco Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shaco sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Brand helps Shaco perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco is paired with Brand, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Brand does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together with Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Brand.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Brand on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Brand does a poor job of protecting Shaco in teamfights.
Synergies between Shaco and Brand
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Brand?
There is no ideal synergy for Shaco that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Brand is a good companion for Shaco. By locking into the same side as Shaco, he raises their win rate by 2.0% to 51.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Shaco and Brand that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be very careful when lining up Brand teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Shaco players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Shaco and Brand together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of engage potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Brand ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to synergize with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Shaco and Brand synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Liandry's Torment. When Shaco used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Brand than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 51.4% helping carry Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.4% winrate overall.
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