Taliyah vs Shaco Counter Pick

Scoring 9 out of 10, Shaco is one of the hardest champions to pick up, but the 119 matches logged on patch 16.13.1 show the investment can pay off: Taliyah wins 37.8% of them, and the difficulty is rated Hard.

Her toolkit has no real answer to information denial. Deceive makes him invisible and carries him to a new position, and the first attack out of stealth is boosted and can crit; Backstab piles on extra damage from behind; Jack In The Box frightens whoever sets it off. Threaded Volley needs a target that stays visible and moves predictably, and Weaver’s Wall gives away its location from a great distance. Hallucinate splits him into copies just when she wants to gauge incoming damage.

The stats make things worse. Shaco’s damage is mixed, so a single resistance never closes the gap, and her base armour of 18 and base magic resistance of 28 are both low. Her 550 health also trails his 630, and at level 18 the totals of 2,318 and 2,313 only come close near the end of a match. With 345 move speed against her 330, running away is not a real option, so Rock Surfing along walls becomes the practical escape. Unraveled Earth placed at the entrance of a boxed camp is the one setup that reliably catches him. Full details on his kit are on the Shaco champion page.