Kayle vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Kayle
based on 415 Kayle vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Skarner
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Kayle in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some valuable Kayle versus Skarner counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Skarner..
Kayle normally has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Skarner. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Skarner
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Who is Better, Kayle or Skarner?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually wins when playing against Skarner, with a 57.1% win rate. Therefore, Kayle makes a fantastic counter for Skarner.
While Kayle does have a much higher winrate compared to Skarner, when on opposite teams, Kayle also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Kayle into Skarneras her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayle also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Skarner matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a great counter to Skarner. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kayle against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kayle to counter Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle usually accumulates much more CS as Skarner. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They 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, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Kayle versus Skarner build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Kayle included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when facing Skarner than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kayle had an average winrate of 57.1% battling Skarner with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Skarner as Kayle, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Kayle vs Skarner counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 57.1% winrate overall.
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