Zac vs Shaco Counter Pick

Two of the trickier junglers in the game square off here: Shaco, rated 9 for difficulty, and Zac, rated 8. Across 564 games on patch 16.13.1, Zac wins 45.6% of the time. The problem for him is what he can’t see coming. Deceive makes Shaco invisible and moves him across the map, Hallucinate creates a clone that bursts into boxes when it dies, and Jack In The Box punishes anyone who sets it off. Elastic Slingshot is a charged skillshot with a obvious wind-up, but it’s aimed at a champion who is often somewhere other than where he looks.

On paper Zac is the sturdier champion in every defensive category: 685 health to Shaco’s 630, 2,538 to 2,313 at level 18, and 112.9 armour to 98. Those numbers rarely translate into wins, though. Shaco’s damage comes in several types, and Backstab hits harder when he’s behind you, so one resistance stat doesn’t shut him down. Two-Shiv Poison also drags Zac below his 340 base move speed while Shaco stays at 345. Unstable Matter still scales off a percentage of maximum health, but Shaco’s small health pool keeps the flat return fairly low. The better approach is to play around vision and wait. Hold Let’s Bounce! until Shaco commits instead of firing it at the first target you see, and think of Cell Division blobs as the resource that carries you through the burst window, rather than trying to win the opening trade outright.