Seraphine vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Seraphine
based on 603 Seraphine vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Seraphine vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Seraphine vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Seraphine
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.
Seraphine vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Seraphine in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several critical Seraphine against Skarner matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Seraphine’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, showing that Seraphine may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Skarner. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Seraphine normally has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Skarner. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Seraphine and Skarner
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Who is Better, Seraphine or Skarner?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Seraphine usually fairs equally well when taking on Skarner, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Seraphine makes an ok counter for Skarner.
While Seraphine does have a higher winrate than Skarner, when on opposite teams, Seraphine also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Seraphine into Skarner.
Furthermore, Seraphine has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Seraphine vs Skarner matchups, Seraphine is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Seraphine is a decent counter for Skarner. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Seraphine against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Seraphine to counter Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Seraphine most often racks up more CS as Skarner. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Seraphine versus Skarner build include Seraph's Embrace, Celestial Opposition, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Seraphine bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Skarner than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Seraphine had an average win rate of 50.9% when playing against Skarner with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Skarner as Seraphine, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Seraphine vs Skarner LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Skarner as Seraphine are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.