K'Sante vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as K'Sante
based on 207 K'Sante vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Skarner
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some significant K'Sante vs. Skarner matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between these two champs. For instance, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Skarner..
K'Sante normally has a similar longest kill spree as their counter does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Skarner. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Skarner
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Skarner?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when trying to fight Skarner, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, K'Sante makes a bad counter to Skarner.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate compared to Skarner, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking K'Sante into Skarneras their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
K'Sante is a somewhat poor counter to Skarner. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as K'Sante against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master K'Sante to counter Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante usually picks up much more CS compared to Skarner. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your K'Sante versus Skarner build consist of Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante bought at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better when fighting Skarner than with most other common builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 48.3% when playing against Skarner with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Skarner as K'Sante, K'Sante players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for K'Sante vs Skarner LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.3% winrate overall.
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