Skarner vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Skarner
based on 549 Skarner vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Core Skarner Items
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Pantheon
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 Pantheon
Pantheon's Aegis Assault makes him invulnerable from the front. Get behind him or wait it out.
Grand Starfall gives several seconds of warning before Pantheon arrives. Use this time to get out of the way or to form a plan to deal with him.
Be careful near Pantheon if your health is low - a thrown Comet Spear executes low health enemies.
Skarner vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some significant Skarner against Pantheon matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Pantheon..
Skarner often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Pantheon. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Skarner or Pantheon?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually wins when playing against Pantheon, with a 52.8% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes a good counter to Pantheon.
While Skarner does have a higher win rate than Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Skarner into Pantheon.
Furthermore, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Pantheon matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Skarner is a good counter to Pantheon. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Skarner against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Skarner in order to counter Pantheon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner typically accumulates less CS compared to Pantheon. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Skarner versus Pantheon build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Skarner used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Pantheon than with many other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 52.8% when playing against Pantheon with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Pantheon as Skarner, Skarner players 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 Pantheon clashes, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.8% winrate overall.
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