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

Skarner vs Wukong

How to Beat Wukong as Skarner in LoLSkarner is in the b tier of champions
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How to Beat Wukong as Skarner

based on 127 Skarner vs Wukong matchups
Win Rate
45.7 %
K/D/A
2.09
Pick Rate
1 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

At MOBA Champion, we analyze millions of recently ranked LoL matches each and every week. Within our database, Skarner faced Wukong in 127 games. Including so many games with Skarner vs Wukong provides us faith in our capacity to produce enlightening stats and a supported build to wreck your foe. This matchup is fairly rare. Skarner encounters Wukong in only 1.0% of his matches.

Skarner vs Wukong Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Skarner does a pathetic job of beating Wukong. Normally, he wins a lowly 45.7% of matches the champions face off with each other in. In Skarner against Wukong games, Skarner’s team is 0.0% more probable to earn first blood, implying that he probably will get first blood against Wukong.

Best Skarner vs Wukong Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Gustwalker HatchlingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
BootsSheen

Core Skarner Items

~22 Mins
Trinity ForceDead Man's PlateJak'Sho, The Protean

Optional Items

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
InspirationMagical FootwearCosmic Insight
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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R

Guide to Countering Wukong as Skarner

Tips for Playing as Skarner against Wukong

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 Wukong

Wukong becomes tougher to kill when surrounded by his enemies. Try to isolate him to gain an advantage.

Wukong will often use Decoy after Nimbus Strike. Try delaying your abilities by a short amount of time to ensure that you're hitting the real Wukong.

Skarner vs Wukong Counter Stats

Skarner Image
Win Rate
45.7 %
VS
Win Rate
54.3 %
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4
< Kills >
6.4
5.8
< Deaths >
5.9
8.1
< Assists >
6.5
0.99
< Killing Sprees >
1.42
47
< Minions Killed >
96
1.2
< Dragons Killed >
0.84
0.46
< Inhibitors >
0.53
8,061
< Physical Damage >
15,523
3,397
< Magic Damage >
2,288
686
< True Damage >
900
12,146
< Damage Dealt >
18,711
28,859
< Damage Taken >
30,572
10,723
< Gold Earned >
11,682
1.23
< Towers >
2.11
0.27
< Baron Takedowns >
0.22
9,862
< Total Healing >
9,747
13,337
< Experience >
13,750
22
< Vision Score >
20
7
< Wards Placed >
7
876
< Time Dealing CC >
134

How to Counter Wukong with Skarner in LoL

The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several strategic Skarner against Wukong matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Wukong’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Wukong..

Skarner usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Wukong. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.

Differences between Skarner and Wukong

Damage Types Compared

Skarner
Wukong
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Skarner
Wukong

Who is Better, Skarner or Wukong?

Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually loses when taking on Wukong, with a 45.7% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes a bad counter for Wukong.

While Skarner does have a much lower winrate compared to Wukong, when facing one another, Skarner also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Skarner into Wukong.

Additionally, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Wukong. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Wukong matchups, Wukong is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.

Skarner is a trash counter for Wukong. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Skarner against Wukong.

Additional Information for Skarner Players

How We Calculated Our Skarner vs Wukong Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Wukong as Skarner, we analyzed 127 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 Wukong 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

To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to counter Wukong during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.

Skarner usually picks up less CS relative to Wukong. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.

The most crucial items to have in your Skarner versus Wukong build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Wukong than with most other common builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 45.7% when playing against Wukong with these items in his kit.

To have the greatest chance of crushing Wukong 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. Of all the runes we have analyed for Skarner vs Wukong fights, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.7% winrate overall.

By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Wukong as Skarner are displayed for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.