Brand with Shaco
How to Synergize Brand and Shaco
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Brand Shaco Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Brand with Shaco
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Advice to Understand How Shaco Will Play
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.
Brand Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shaco. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shaco helps Brand perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand plays on the same team as Shaco, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Shaco provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played alongside Shaco on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shaco.
Additionally, when Brand plays with Shaco on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Shaco does a decent job of protecting Brand in teamfights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no top synergy for Brand that will always be his #1 ally. However, overall, Shaco is a very typical companion for Brand. By playing on the same team as Brand, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 51.4%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Brand and Shaco that results in them performing at the same level together than without each other.
Shaco has a much greater difficulty compared to Brand. That means you need to be cautious when finding Shaco teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Brand and Shaco together, you will not be providing your other allies much engage potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Shaco ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Brand to synergize with Shaco during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Brand and Shaco synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Shaco than with most other typical builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 51.4% when playing alongside Shaco with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Shaco with Brand are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.