Illaoi vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Illaoi
based on 223 Illaoi vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Skarner Counter Build
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Core Illaoi Items
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Skarner
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Illaoi in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some influential Illaoi versus Skarner matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Skarner..
Illaoi normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives more damage than Skarner. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Skarner
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Skarner?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when taking on Skarner, with a 56.1% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes a fantastic counter for Skarner.
While Illaoi does have a much higher win rate compared to Skarner, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Illaoi into Skarner.
Additionally, Illaoi 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Skarner matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Illaoi is a great counter for Skarner. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi often accumulates much more CS relative to Skarner. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Illaoi versus Skarner build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Skarner than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 56.1% when countering Skarner with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Skarner as Illaoi, Illaoi players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Illaoi vs Skarner face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 56.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Skarner as Illaoi are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.