Shaco with Kindred
How to Synergize Shaco and Kindred
based on 940 Shaco with Kindred pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Kindred Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Shaco Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kindred. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kindred helps Shaco perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco is an ally to Kindred, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This change could signal that Kindred doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played with Kindred on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kindred.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Kindred on the same side, he often takes much less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Kindred does a decent job of protecting Shaco during team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Kindred
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no perfect synergy for Shaco that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Kindred is a very typical teammate for Shaco. By locking into the same team as Shaco, they lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 49.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Shaco and Kindred that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kindred has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kindred comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Shaco players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Shaco and Kindred together, you will not be granting your team a lot of protection for burst damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Kindred ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to pair well with Kindred during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Shaco and Kindred synergy build include Bloodsong, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Shaco incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Kindred than with most other common builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Shaco players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Shaco and Kindred pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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