Skarner vs Hwei
How to Beat Hwei as Skarner
based on 631 Skarner vs Hwei matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Hwei Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hwei as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Hwei
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 Hwei
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
Skarner vs Hwei Counter Stats
How to Counter Hwei with Skarner in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some important Skarner vs. Hwei counter statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between this set of champs. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Hwei’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Hwei..
Skarner often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Hwei. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Hwei
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Who is Better, Skarner or Hwei?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually wins when playing against Hwei, with a 52.1% win rate. As a result, Skarner makes a good counter to Hwei.
While Skarner does have a higher win rate than Hwei, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Skarner into Hwei.
Additionally, Skarner also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hwei. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Hwei matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Skarner is an above average counter to Hwei. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Skarner against Hwei.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to counter Hwei during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Hwei. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Skarner versus Hwei build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Skarner combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Hwei than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 52.1% when playing against Hwei with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Hwei as Skarner, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Skarner vs Hwei clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.1% win rate overall.
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