Katarina vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Katarina
based on 4,653 Katarina vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Shaco
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Shaco
If Shaco is doing well early-game, it is worth the investment to place Stealth Wards near his Jungle camps.
If Shaco uses Deceive to enter a fight he won't be able to quickly use it again to get away. Work with your team to quickly focus him down.
Katarina vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some strategic Katarina against Shaco matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shaco’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Shaco..
Katarina normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Shaco. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Shaco
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Who is Better, Katarina or Shaco?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when playing against Shaco, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a poor counter to Shaco.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate than Shaco, when facing one another, Katarina also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Shacoas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shaco. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Shaco matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Shaco. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Shaco.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Shaco during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often picks up much more CS relative to Shaco. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Katarina versus Shaco build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Shaco than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 48.7% when playing against Shaco with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Shaco as Katarina, Katarina players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Katarina vs Shaco counters, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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