Skarner vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Skarner
based on 98 Skarner vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw
The range on Living Artillery increases each rank.
Run away from Kog'Maw after he dies!!!!
Kog'Maw doesn't have a good escape ability, so he is especially prone to ganks.
Bio-Arcane Barrage allows Kog'Maw to kill Baron Nashor extremely early. It can be valuable to ward Nashor when Kog'Maw completes his Blade of the Ruined King.
Skarner vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some important Skarner versus Kog'Maw matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kog'Maw..
Skarner typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Kog'Maw. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Skarner or Kog'Maw?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually wins when facing off against Kog'Maw, with a 57.1% win rate. As a result, Skarner makes a fantastic counter to Kog'Maw.
While Skarner does have a much higher win rate than Kog'Maw, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Skarner into Kog'Maw.
Moreover, Skarner also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Kog'Maw 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 teammates during team fights.
Skarner is a great counter to Kog'Maw. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Skarner in order to counter Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner on average gets a lot less CS relative to Kog'Maw. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Skarner versus Kog'Maw 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 a lot better against Kog'Maw than with many other common builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 57.1% battling Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Kog'Maw 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 runes that we analyzed for Skarner vs Kog'Maw fights, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 57.1% win rate overall.
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