Skarner vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Skarner
based on 727 Skarner vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Lucian Counter Build
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Core Skarner Items
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Lucian
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 Lucian
Lucian cannot change the aim of The Culling. Take advantage of this by avoiding the angle of the bullets.
Lucian has strong burst, but little sustained damage.
Piercing Light does not give Lucian extra Attack Range. He still needs to find a target in range to line up his shot. Avoid Piercing Light by anticipating the angle Lucian will choose.
Skarner vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several critical Skarner against Lucian counter statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between these two champions. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, showing that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lucian..
Skarner usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Lucian. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Lucian
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Who is Better, Skarner or Lucian?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Skarner usually loses when taking on Lucian, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes a bad counter to Lucian.
While Skarner does have a lower win rate compared to Lucian, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Skarner into Lucian.
Additionally, Skarner also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Lucian matchups, Lucian is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Skarner is a trash counter to Lucian. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Skarner in order to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner usually picks up a lot less CS relative to Lucian. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Skarner versus Lucian build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Skarner used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Lucian than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 46.9% battling Lucian with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Lucian as Skarner, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Skarner vs Lucian LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.9% winrate overall.
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