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.
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
The Shaco Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Caitlyn helps Shaco perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco tries to synergize with Caitlyn, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This may indicate that Caitlyn does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together with Caitlyn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Caitlyn.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Caitlyn on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Caitlyn does a poor job of covering Shaco during team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Shaco that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Caitlyn is a very typical ally for Shaco. By locking into the same team as Shaco, she lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 49.1%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Shaco and Caitlyn that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Caitlyn has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Caitlyn comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Shaco and Caitlyn together, you probably will not be giving your side much engage potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Caitlyn ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to synergize with Caitlyn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Shaco and Caitlyn synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Liandry's Torment. When Shaco bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Caitlyn than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 49.1% helping carry Caitlyn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Shaco players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
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