Skarner vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Skarner
based on 123 Skarner vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Skarner vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several important Skarner vs. Kalista counter statistics that can help us grasp the distinctions between the two. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kalista..
Skarner often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Kalista. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Kalista
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Who is Better, Skarner or Kalista?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Skarner usually wins when playing against Kalista, with a 61.8% win rate. As a result, Skarner makes a fantastic counter to Kalista.
While Skarner does have a much higher win rate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Skarner into Kalista.
Moreover, Skarner has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Kalista matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Skarner is a great counter to Kalista. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner on average gets a lot less CS relative to Kalista. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Skarner versus Kalista build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Kalista than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 61.8% when playing against Kalista with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Kalista as Skarner, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Skarner vs Kalista clashes, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 61.8% winrate overall.
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