Skarner vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Skarner
based on 375 Skarner vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Bard
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 Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Skarner vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some influential Skarner vs. Bard matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard..
Skarner typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Bard. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Bard
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Who is Better, Skarner or Bard?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Skarner usually loses when trying to fight Bard, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Skarner does have a lower win rate compared to Bard, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Skarner into Bard.
Moreover, Skarner also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Skarner is a somewhat poor counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Bard.
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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 Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Bard. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Skarner versus Bard build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Bard than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when playing against Bard with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Bard as Skarner, Skarner players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Skarner vs Bard counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Bard as Skarner are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.