Skarner vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Skarner
based on 415 Skarner vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Skarner vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several significant Skarner versus Kayle matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kayle’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kayle..
Skarner typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Kayle. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Kayle
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Who is Better, Skarner or Kayle?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Skarner usually loses when taking on Kayle, with a 42.9% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes a bad counter for Kayle.
While Skarner does have a much lower win rate compared to Kayle, when facing one another, Skarner also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Skarner into Kayle.
Additionally, Skarner also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Skarner is a terribly counter to Kayle. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Skarner in order to counter Kayle 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner often picks up a lot less CS compared to Kayle. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Skarner versus Kayle build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner used at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Kayle than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 42.9% battling Kayle with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Kayle as Skarner, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Skarner vs Kayle battles, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 42.9% win rate overall.
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