Skarner vs Jayce
How to Beat Jayce as Skarner
based on 160 Skarner vs Jayce matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Jayce Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jayce as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Jayce
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 Jayce
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
Skarner vs Jayce Counter Stats
How to Counter Jayce with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some important Skarner against Jayce matchup stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between these two champs. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jayce’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Jayce..
Skarner normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Jayce. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Jayce
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Who is Better, Skarner or Jayce?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually fairs equally well when facing off against Jayce, with a 50.6% win rate. As a result, Skarner makes an ok counter for Jayce.
While Skarner does have a higher winrate than Jayce, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Skarner into Jayce.
Furthermore, Skarner has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jayce. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Jayce matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Skarner is a decent counter for Jayce. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Jayce.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to counter Jayce during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner typically gets a lot less CS as Jayce. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Skarner versus Jayce 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 significantly better versus Jayce than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when playing against Jayce with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Jayce as Skarner, you should take 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 Jayce LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.6% win rate overall.
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