Rengar vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Rengar
based on 255 Rengar vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rengar vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Rengar vs Skarner Counter Build
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Early Items
Core Rengar Items
Optional Items
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Rengar
Tips for Playing as Rengar against Skarner
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
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.
Rengar vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Rengar in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several significant Rengar vs. Skarner counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Rengar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rengar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Skarner. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Rengar typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Skarner. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rengar and Skarner
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Rengar or Skarner?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rengar usually loses when trying to fight Skarner, with a 45.9% win rate. Therefore, Rengar makes a bad counter for Skarner.
While Rengar does have a much lower win rate compared to Skarner, when on opposite teams, Rengar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Rengar into Skarneras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Rengar also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rengar vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Rengar is a garbage counter for Skarner. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rengar against Skarner.
Other Champion Matchups Against Rengar
Additional Information for Rengar Players
How We Calculated Our Rengar vs Skarner Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rengar 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rengar on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Skarner. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Rengar versus Skarner build consist of Duskblade of Draktharr, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Essence Reaver. When Rengar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Skarner than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rengar had an average win rate of 45.9% when playing against Skarner with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Skarner as Rengar, Rengar players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Rengar vs Skarner counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.9% winrate overall.
If you would like to get Rengar x Skarner tips and counter builds for a an individual skill level, feel free to select one from the selection menu above. At first, the statistics and guides shown are computed using all games completed with these champs.