Skarner vs Rengar
How to Beat Rengar as Skarner
based on 413 Skarner vs Rengar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Rengar Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Rengar Counter Build
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Core Skarner Items
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Guide to Countering Rengar as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Rengar
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 Rengar
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
Skarner vs Rengar Counter Stats
How to Counter Rengar with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some significant Skarner versus Rengar matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rengar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rengar..
Skarner normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Rengar. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Rengar
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Who is Better, Skarner or Rengar?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually loses when taking on Rengar, with a 46.2% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes a bad counter to Rengar.
While Skarner does have a lower winrate than Rengar, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Skarner into Rengar.
Moreover, Skarner also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rengar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Rengar matchups, Rengar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Skarner is a trash counter for Rengar. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Rengar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Skarner to counter Rengar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Rengar. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Skarner versus Rengar build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Rengar than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 46.2% when playing against Rengar with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Rengar as Skarner, Skarner players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Skarner vs Rengar counters, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rengar as Skarner are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.