Shaco with Janna
How to Synergize Shaco and Janna
based on 2,410 Shaco with Janna pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Janna Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Janna Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Shaco Items
Optional Items
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Janna
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Janna
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 Janna Will Play
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
Shaco Janna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Janna as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Janna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Janna, 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 Janna. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Janna helps Shaco perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco plays on the same team as Janna, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Janna helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together with Janna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Janna.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Janna on the same team, he usually receives more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Janna does a poor job of covering Shaco in team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Janna
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Janna?
There is no top companion for Shaco that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Janna is a pretty good teammate for Shaco. By locking into the same side as Shaco, she raises their win rate by 2.7% to 52.1%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Shaco and Janna that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Janna has a lower difficulty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be cautious when lining up Janna teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Shaco and Janna together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of engage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Janna ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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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 pair well with Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Shaco and Janna synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Shaco incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Janna than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 52.1% helping carry Janna with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Shaco players 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 rune builds players used for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Janna with Shaco are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.