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unless the player is horrible, you cannot beat him unless you catch him low hp with no spells ready. you HAVE TO either power farm or invade, which both are risky and not optimal.
Kayn
My permaban, even harder scaling as well as early game fighting/farming than graves.
you CAN beat him at every stage if you're more skilled, but it won't matter usually. that's why I permaban him.
Master Yi
Every time I see the enemy pick him, I know it's an easy win. there's no way you lose to a champion that cant fight early AND can't gank pre 6 (usually).
all he does is farm, and you beat him at all stages of the game with your dps and utility, if you don't play horribly wrong. (or your team feeds) (and if you're not sitting on extra gold)
Graves
You'll have to rely on him misplaying.
there's usually no way to win against a good graves, so you'll have to abuse every mistake that he or his team makes.
in gold elo and below, he will usually do a five camp clear from red to gromp. you can do a double buff gromp clear and invade him, low elo players just CANT kite camps, even on graves.
Kindred
this is a skill matchup. kindred is just a MUCH weaker graves, and what you need to do to beat her, is to just NOT fight her when you don't have a decent advantage. that's it.
you can(risky) start your red buff, and then invade her on her second camp if you know she does blue into gromp or red into blue.
she cant kill you, just q away, you can kill her if you're stronger. simple as that.
Lee Sin
skill matchup. too much variables to explain, just key ones: dont fight unless youre ahead, dont go too deep into his jungle, because if you die too much against him... its bad. block his q with your box, especially if he's aiming for your allies. you can just q away.
Karthus
in high elo, I've heard he can just beat you by farming. unfortunately, I'm yet to reach a point where karthus is stronger than shaco, in the ladder.
Gragas
shut him down early. if he doesn't get ahead of you by level 6, AND doesn't get ahead of you after, he's useless.
of course also pray your laners don't feed.
Hecarim
against him, run exhaust instead of ignite if you're not confident on shaco. also you can go lethal tempo or glacial augment instead of hail of blades. (yes, glacial augment on ad shaco)
unless the hecarim is skilled, he will just fall behind on farm and power.
if he is, just avoid fighting him, especially if he's not alone.
Kha'Zix
in the shaco vs khazix matchup, especially in season 11, its kind of like playing VS jax top. if you're even, you're losing. he will just out scale you, and it wont matter if you can assassinate him or not.
unless you get him behind, you're fked, especially if he doesn't throw.
Sylas
everything you want in a midlaner. strong early fights, snowbally, has CC.
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Sylas
everything you want in a midlaner. strong early fights, snowbally, has CC.
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