If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Skarner is especially dangerous when inside Crystal Spire zones his team controls. Try to capture them ahead of time if a fight may break out around them.
Skarner can't harm you very much outside of short range, so stay away from him!
Skarner's Move Speed is increased as long as his shield, Crystalline Exoskeleton, persists. Attack him to lower his speed.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several valuable Evelynn vs. Skarner matchup stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Evelynn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Evelynn may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Skarner. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Evelynn normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Skarner. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Evelynn usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Skarner, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Evelynn makes an ok counter to Skarner.
While Evelynn does have a higher winrate compared to Skarner, when facing one another, Evelynn also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Evelynn into Skarneras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Evelynn has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Evelynn vs Skarner matchups, Evelynn is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Evelynn is a decent counter to Skarner. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Evelynn against Skarner.
To truly master Evelynn to counter Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Evelynn often racks up less CS as Skarner. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Evelynn versus Skarner build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Banshee's Veil. When Evelynn used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better countering Skarner than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Evelynn boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when countering Skarner with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Skarner as Evelynn, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Evelynn vs Skarner counters, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
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