Zac vs Shaco Counter Pick

Two of the harder junglers in the game meet here, Shaco rated 9 for difficulty and Zac 8, and the result over 564 games on patch 16.13.1 is 45.6% for Zac. Information is the reason he loses it. Deceive turns Shaco invisible and teleports him, Hallucinate leaves a clone that explodes into boxes on death, and Jack In The Box fears whoever triggers it. Elastic Slingshot, meanwhile, is a charged and clearly telegraphed line aimed at a champion who is frequently not standing where he appears to be.

Statistically Zac holds every durability column: 685 health against 630, 2,538 against 2,313 at level 18, and 112.9 armour against 98. It rarely converts, because Shaco’s damage is mixed and Backstab adds more from behind, so a single resistance does not solve him, and Two-Shiv Poison slows Zac below his 340 base move speed while Shaco keeps 345. Unstable Matter still takes a percentage of maximum health, though Shaco’s small pool keeps the flat return modest. The workable route is patience with vision: hold Let’s Bounce! for the moment Shaco commits rather than spending it on the first target that shows itself, and treat Cell Division blobs as the resource that survives the burst window instead of expecting to win the opening trade.