Skarner vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Skarner
based on 123 Skarner vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Ryze Counter Build
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Core Skarner Items
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Ryze
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 Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Skarner vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several significant Skarner versus Ryze counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Ryze..
Skarner typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Ryze. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Ryze
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Who is Better, Skarner or Ryze?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually loses when taking on Ryze, with a 42.3% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes a poor counter to Ryze.
While Skarner does have a much lower winrate than Ryze, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Skarner into Ryze.
Additionally, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Skarner is a terribly counter for Ryze. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Skarner in order to counter Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner most often gets a lot less CS compared to Ryze. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Skarner versus Ryze build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Ryze than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 42.3% when playing against Ryze with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Ryze as Skarner, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Skarner vs Ryze counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 42.3% winrate overall.
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