Skarner vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Skarner
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Skarner vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Skarner vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some influential Skarner against Lee Sin matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lee Sin..
Skarner typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Lee Sin. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Skarner or Lee Sin?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Skarner usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Lee Sin, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes an ok counter for Lee Sin.
While Skarner does have a higher win rate compared to Lee Sin, when facing one another, Skarner also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Skarner into Lee Sin.
Moreover, Skarner has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Lee Sin matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Skarner is a decent counter to Lee Sin. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to counter Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Lee Sin. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Skarner versus Lee Sin build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Lee Sin than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 50.7% when countering Lee Sin with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Lee Sin as Skarner, Skarner players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Skarner vs Lee Sin face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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