Skarner vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Skarner
based on 307 Skarner vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Aphelios
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 Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Skarner vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some important Skarner vs. Aphelios matchup statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Aphelios..
Skarner usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Aphelios. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Skarner or Aphelios?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes an ok counter for Aphelios.
While Skarner does have a higher win rate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Skarner also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Skarner into Aphelios.
Additionally, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Aphelios matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Skarner is a decent counter to Aphelios. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Skarner against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to counter Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner often accumulates a lot less CS as Aphelios. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Skarner versus Aphelios build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Aphelios than with many other common builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 50.8% when countering Aphelios with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Aphelios as Skarner, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Skarner vs Aphelios counters, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Aphelios as Skarner are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.