Skarner vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Skarner
based on 371 Skarner vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Rakan
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 Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Skarner vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several important Skarner vs. Rakan counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rakan..
Skarner usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Rakan. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Rakan
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Who is Better, Skarner or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Skarner usually loses when taking on Rakan, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While Skarner does have a lower winrate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Skarner into Rakan.
Additionally, Skarner has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. 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 in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Skarner is a bad counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Skarner against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Rakan. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Skarner versus Rakan 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 a lot better vs. Rakan than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 46.6% when countering Rakan with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Rakan as Skarner, Skarner players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Skarner vs Rakan matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rakan as Skarner are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.