Riven vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Riven
based on 372 Riven vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Skarner
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
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.
Riven vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Riven in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several significant Riven vs. Skarner counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Skarner. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Riven typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Skarner. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Skarner
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Who is Better, Riven or Skarner?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when playing against Skarner, with a 52.7% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a good counter to Skarner.
While Riven does have a higher win rate than Skarner, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Riven into Skarneras her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Skarner matchups, Riven is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Riven is an above average counter to Skarner. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Skarner during both the laning 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 shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often gets much more CS compared to Skarner. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Riven versus Skarner build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Skarner than with many other typical builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 52.7% battling Skarner with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Skarner as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Riven vs Skarner clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.7% winrate overall.
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