Skarner vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Skarner
based on 752 Skarner vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Skarner vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several strategic Skarner vs. Brand matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Brand..
Skarner often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Brand. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Brand
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Who is Better, Skarner or Brand?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Skarner usually loses when trying to fight Brand, with a 45.7% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes a poor counter to Brand.
While Skarner does have a much lower win rate than Brand, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Skarner into Brand.
Additionally, Skarner also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Brand. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Skarner is a terribly counter to Brand. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Skarner against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to counter Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner typically picks up less CS relative to Brand. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Skarner versus Brand build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Skarner bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Brand than with most other typical builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 45.7% battling Brand with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Brand as Skarner, you 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 Brand counters, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.7% win rate overall.
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