Skarner vs Rek'Sai
How to Beat Rek'Sai as Skarner
based on 70 Skarner vs Rek'Sai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Rek'Sai Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rek'Sai as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai
When Rek'Sai is near, she can see the position of you and your allies, but only if you're moving.
If you see one of Rek'Sai's tunnels, briefly stand on one of the entrances to destroy it.
Rek'Sai's Furious Bite gains damage as she builds Fury. Be very careful around her when her Fury is full.
Skarner vs Rek'Sai Counter Stats
How to Counter Rek'Sai with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several critical Skarner against Rek'Sai counter statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rek'Sai..
Skarner typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Rek'Sai. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Rek'Sai
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Who is Better, Skarner or Rek'Sai?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Skarner usually loses when facing off against Rek'Sai, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes a poor counter to Rek'Sai.
While Skarner does have a lower win rate than Rek'Sai, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Skarner into Rek'Sai.
Moreover, Skarner also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rek'Sai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Rek'Sai matchups, Rek'Sai is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Skarner is a somewhat poor counter to Rek'Sai. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Rek'Sai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to counter Rek'Sai during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Rek'Sai. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Skarner versus Rek'Sai build consist of 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 vs. Rek'Sai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when countering Rek'Sai with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Rek'Sai as Skarner, Skarner players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Skarner vs Rek'Sai counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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