Skarner vs Nilah
How to Beat Nilah as Skarner
based on 204 Skarner vs Nilah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Nilah Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nilah as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Nilah
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.
Skarner vs Nilah Counter Stats
How to Counter Nilah with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some valuable Skarner against Nilah counter stats that may help you realize the distinctions between the two. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, showing that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nilah..
Skarner usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Nilah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Nilah
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Who is Better, Skarner or Nilah?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Skarner usually loses when trying to fight Nilah, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes a bad counter to Nilah.
While Skarner does have a lower win rate compared to Nilah, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Skarner into Nilah.
Moreover, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nilah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Skarner is a garbage counter for Nilah. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Nilah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Skarner to counter Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner on average picks up a lot less CS compared to Nilah. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Skarner versus Nilah 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 performed significantly better versus Nilah than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 47.1% battling Nilah with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Nilah as Skarner, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Skarner vs Nilah matchups, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.1% winrate overall.
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