Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
The Ziggs Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ziggs sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shaco. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shaco helps Ziggs perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ziggs plays on the same team as Shaco, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Shaco provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Ziggs is played alongside Shaco on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shaco.
Moreover, when Ziggs plays with Shaco on the same side, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Ziggs during team fights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Ziggs that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Shaco is a relatively poor companion for Ziggs. By being on the same team as Ziggs, he drops their win rate by -2.3% to 45.8%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Ziggs and Shaco that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Shaco has a much greater difficulty compared to Ziggs. That means Ziggs players should be very careful when lining up Shaco allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Ziggs players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Ziggs and Shaco together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of protection for burst damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Shaco ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Ziggs in order to pair well with Shaco during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to build first in your Ziggs and Shaco synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Ziggs bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Shaco than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average winrate of 45.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shaco with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.8% winrate overall.
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