Skarner vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Skarner
based on 285 Skarner vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Amumu
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Advice to Win Against Amumu
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
Skarner vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some strategic Skarner against Amumu matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Amumu..
Skarner normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Amumu. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Amumu
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Who is Better, Skarner or Amumu?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually wins when playing against Amumu, with a 53.3% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes a great counter for Amumu.
While Skarner does have a higher winrate compared to Amumu, when facing one another, Skarner also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Skarner into Amumu.
Furthermore, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Amumu matchups, Skarner 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.
Skarner is a great counter to Amumu. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to counter Amumu 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 pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Amumu. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Skarner versus Amumu build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Amumu than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 53.3% when countering Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Amumu as Skarner, Skarner players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Skarner vs Amumu face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.3% winrate overall.
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