Kassadin vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Kassadin
based on 179 Kassadin vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Skarner Counter Build
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Core Kassadin Items
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Skarner
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Kassadin in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several important Kassadin vs. Skarner counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Skarner. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Kassadin normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Skarner. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kassadin and Skarner
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Skarner?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kassadin usually wins when playing against Skarner, with a 57.5% win rate. Therefore, Kassadin makes a fantastic counter for Skarner.
While Kassadin does have a much higher winrate compared to Skarner, when they face off with one another, Kassadin also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Kassadin into Skarneras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kassadin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Skarner matchups, Kassadin is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Kassadin is a great counter to Skarner. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kassadin against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin in order to counter Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin often gets much more CS as Skarner. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well 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 case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Kassadin versus Skarner build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Skarner than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average winrate of 57.5% when playing against Skarner with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Skarner as Kassadin, Kassadin players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Kassadin vs Skarner counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 57.5% winrate overall.
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