Skarner vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Skarner
based on 201 Skarner vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Shyvana
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 Shyvana
All of Shyvana's basic abilities hit multiple enemies in dragon form. It's important for opposing champions to not cluster while fighting her.
Shyvana's Fury Bar indicate her ultimate can be activated. Harassing her when she's low on Fury can be very effective.
A significant portion of Shyvana's power is generated through aggression, making her weak against opponents who are able to keep their distance.
Skarner vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some significant Skarner versus Shyvana counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shyvana’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Shyvana..
Skarner typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes less damage than Shyvana. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Skarner or Shyvana?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually loses when facing off against Shyvana, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes a bad counter for Shyvana.
While Skarner does have a lower win rate compared to Shyvana, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Skarner into Shyvana.
Furthermore, Skarner has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shyvana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Shyvana matchups, Shyvana is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Skarner is a garbage counter to Shyvana. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Skarner in order to counter Shyvana 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner most often gets less CS relative to Shyvana. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Skarner versus Shyvana build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Shyvana than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 47.3% when countering Shyvana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Shyvana as Skarner, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Skarner vs Shyvana face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.3% winrate overall.
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