Shaco with Varus
How to Synergize Shaco and Varus
based on 5,368 Shaco with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Varus Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Varus Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Shaco Items
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Summoner Spells
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Varus
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
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.
Shaco Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Varus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Varus helps Shaco perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco is paired with Varus, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Varus supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together with Varus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Varus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Varus.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Varus on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Varus does a poor job of covering Shaco during team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Varus
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Varus?
There is no top champion pairing for Shaco that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Varus is a not very good companion for Shaco. By locking into the same side as Shaco, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 47.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Shaco and Varus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Varus allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Shaco and Varus together, you may not be giving your team much cover. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Varus ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to pair well with Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Shaco and Varus synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Shaco incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Varus than with many other common builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 47.4% helping carry Varus with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.4% win rate overall.
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