Shaco with Xerath
How to Synergize Shaco and Xerath
based on 4,640 Shaco with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Xerath Counter Build
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Core Shaco Items
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Xerath
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 Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Shaco Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xerath helps Shaco perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco plays on the same team as Xerath, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Xerath provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played with Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xerath.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Xerath on the same team, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Xerath does a poor job of protecting Shaco during team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Xerath
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Shaco that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Xerath is a good teammate for Shaco. By playing on the same team as Shaco, he raises their win rate by 1.9% to 51.3%. This signals that there is a good bond between Shaco and Xerath that results in them performing better together than alone.
Xerath has a lower difficulty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Xerath allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Shaco players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Shaco and Xerath together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much engage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shaco to synergize with Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Shaco and Xerath synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Shaco combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Xerath than with most other common item sets. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Shaco players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Xerath with Shaco are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.