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How to Win Skarner vs Miss Fortune Counter MatchupSkarner is in the b tier of champions

Skarner vs Miss Fortune

How to Beat Miss Fortune as Skarner in LoLSkarner is in the a tier of champions
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How to Beat Miss Fortune as Skarner

based on 1,691 Skarner vs Miss Fortune matchups
Win Rate
44.5 %
K/D/A
2.07
Pick Rate
13.3 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We get our counter stats from the millions of recently rated League games that we get from Riot Games every week. This guide on how to beat Miss Fortune as Skarner came out of an evaluation of 1691 ranked rounds where both champions clashed against one another. This particular champion pairing is relatively common. Skarner fights Miss Fortune in 13.3% of his rounds.

Skarner vs Miss Fortune Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Skarner has done a pathetic job of countering Miss Fortune. On average, he wins a lowly 44.5% of matches the champions face each other in. In Skarner vs Miss Fortune matches, Skarner’s team is 0.1% less likely to get first blood, implying that he probably won't be able to get first blood against Miss Fortune.

Best Skarner vs Miss Fortune Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Mosstomper SeedlingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
BootsSheen

Core Skarner Items

~22 Mins
Trinity ForceDead Man's PlateForce of Nature

Optional Items

Jak'Sho, The ProteanFrozen HeartKaenic RookernBlack Cleaver

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonersmite summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Skarner to level upq
>
Second ability for Skarner to level upw
>
Last skill for Skarner to max oute

Runes

SorceryPhase RushNimbus CloakCelerityWaterwalking
PrecisionTriumphLegend: Tenacity
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Skarner's passive ability p
Skarner's q ability q
Skarner's w ability w
Skarner's e ability e
Skarner's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
E
3
W
4
Q
5
Q
6
R
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Q
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W
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W
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Guide to Countering Miss Fortune as Skarner

Tips for Playing as Skarner against Miss Fortune

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 Miss Fortune

Miss Fortune's speed boost is removed if she is damaged by an enemy.

Miss Fortune is easy to kill if you can reach her; target her first in team fights.

Skarner vs Miss Fortune Counter Stats

Skarner Image
Win Rate
44.5 %
VS
Win Rate
55.5 %
Miss Fortune Image
4.3
< Kills >
8.4
6
< Deaths >
5.8
8.1
< Assists >
6.9
0.97
< Killing Sprees >
1.87
38
< Minions Killed >
171
1.47
< Dragons Killed >
0.19
0.36
< Inhibitors >
0.59
8,400
< Physical Damage >
20,898
3,239
< Magic Damage >
1,215
716
< True Damage >
961
12,355
< Damage Dealt >
23,075
29,808
< Damage Taken >
19,172
10,811
< Gold Earned >
12,877
1.25
< Towers >
2.55
0.29
< Baron Takedowns >
0.05
10,378
< Total Healing >
4,378
13,193
< Experience >
12,801
22
< Vision Score >
19
7
< Wards Placed >
9
836
< Time Dealing CC >
154

How to Counter Miss Fortune with Skarner in LoL

The stats shown here feature several influential Skarner vs. Miss Fortune counter stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Miss Fortune’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Miss Fortune..

Skarner usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Miss Fortune. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.

Differences between Skarner and Miss Fortune

Damage Types Compared

Skarner
Miss Fortune
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Skarner
Miss Fortune

Who is Better, Skarner or Miss Fortune?

Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually loses when taking on Miss Fortune, with a 44.5% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes a bad counter to Miss Fortune.

While Skarner does have a much lower winrate than Miss Fortune, when facing one another, Skarner also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Skarner into Miss Fortune.

Furthermore, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Miss Fortune. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Miss Fortune matchups, Miss Fortune is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.

Skarner is a terribly counter to Miss Fortune. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Miss Fortune.

Additional Information for Skarner Players

How We Calculated Our Skarner vs Miss Fortune Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Miss Fortune as Skarner, we analyzed 1,691 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Miss Fortune as Skarner comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

If you would like to truly master Skarner to counter Miss Fortune during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Skarner on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Miss Fortune. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.

The top items to focus on in your Skarner versus Miss Fortune build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Skarner included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Miss Fortune than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 44.5% when playing against Miss Fortune with these items in his kit.

To have the highest probability of beating Miss Fortune as Skarner, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Skarner vs Miss Fortune fights, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.5% win rate overall.

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