Rammus vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Rammus
based on 178 Rammus vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rammus vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Rammus vs Skarner Counter Build
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Core Rammus Items
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Rammus
Tips for Playing as Rammus against Skarner
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
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.
Rammus vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Rammus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some strategic Rammus vs. Skarner matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, showing that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Skarner..
Rammus often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Skarner. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rammus and Skarner
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Who is Better, Rammus or Skarner?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rammus usually wins when facing off against Skarner, with a 53.4% win rate. Therefore, Rammus makes a great counter for Skarner.
While Rammus does have a higher winrate compared to Skarner, when facing one another, Rammus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Rammus into Skarner.
Furthermore, Rammus also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Skarner matchups, Rammus is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Rammus is a great counter for Skarner. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Rammus against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rammus in order 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Skarner. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Rammus versus Skarner build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Skarner than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rammus boasted an average winrate of 53.4% when playing against Skarner with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Skarner as Rammus, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Rammus vs Skarner battles, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.4% win rate overall.
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