Garen vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Garen
based on 438 Garen vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Skarner Counter Build
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Core Garen Items
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Skarner
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Advice to Win Against Skarner
Skarner can't harm you very much outside of short range, so stay away from him!
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's Move Speed is increased as long as his shield, Crystalline Exoskeleton, persists. Attack him to lower his speed.
Garen vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Garen in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some strategic Garen vs. Skarner matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Skarner..
Garen typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Skarner. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Skarner
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Who is Better, Garen or Skarner?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when facing off against Skarner, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Garen makes a poor counter for Skarner.
While Garen does have a lower win rate than Skarner, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Skarner.
Moreover, Garen also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Skarner. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Garen against Skarner.
Other Champion Matchups Against Garen
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen to counter Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen typically accumulates much more CS as Skarner. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Garen versus Skarner build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Skarner than with many other common item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 48.6% battling Skarner with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Skarner as Garen, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Garen vs Skarner fights, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
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