Skarner vs LeBlanc
How to Beat LeBlanc as Skarner
based on 187 Skarner vs LeBlanc matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs LeBlanc Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs LeBlanc Counter Build
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Guide to Countering LeBlanc as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against LeBlanc
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 LeBlanc
LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
Skarner vs LeBlanc Counter Stats
How to Counter LeBlanc with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several significant Skarner against LeBlanc counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between this set of champs. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than LeBlanc’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than LeBlanc..
Skarner often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than LeBlanc. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and LeBlanc
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Who is Better, Skarner or LeBlanc?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually loses when facing off against LeBlanc, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes a poor counter to LeBlanc.
While Skarner does have a lower winrate compared to LeBlanc, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Skarner into LeBlanc.
Furthermore, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing 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 LeBlanc matchups, LeBlanc is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Skarner is a somewhat poor counter for LeBlanc. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Skarner against LeBlanc.
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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 LeBlanc during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner most often picks up a lot less CS as LeBlanc. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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 need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Skarner versus LeBlanc 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 significantly better against LeBlanc than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when playing against LeBlanc with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating LeBlanc 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 builds that we analyzed for Skarner vs LeBlanc clashes, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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