Skarner vs Karthus
How to Beat Karthus as Skarner
based on 168 Skarner vs Karthus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Karthus Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karthus as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Karthus
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 Karthus
Karthus can cast spells for a short duration after he is killed. Move away from his corpse to be safe.
Make sure you always have enough health to survive Requiem, even if you have to go back to the base more frequently to heal.
Skarner vs Karthus Counter Stats
How to Counter Karthus with Skarner in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several significant Skarner versus Karthus counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences between this set of champs. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karthus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Karthus..
Skarner often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Karthus. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Karthus
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Who is Better, Skarner or Karthus?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Skarner usually wins when trying to fight Karthus, with a 51.8% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes a good counter to Karthus.
While Skarner does have a higher winrate than Karthus, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Skarner into Karthus.
Additionally, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karthus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Karthus matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Skarner is a decent counter for Karthus. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Skarner against Karthus.
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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 Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner often accumulates less CS relative to Karthus. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Skarner versus Karthus build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Karthus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when playing against Karthus with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Karthus as Skarner, you should equip 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 Karthus LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.8% win rate overall.
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