Skarner vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Skarner
based on 397 Skarner vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Tristana Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Skarner vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some important Skarner versus Tristana matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tristana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Tristana..
Skarner often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Tristana. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Tristana
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Who is Better, Skarner or Tristana?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually fairs equally well when playing against Tristana, with a 50.9% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes an ok counter for Tristana.
While Skarner does have a higher winrate than Tristana, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Skarner into Tristana.
Moreover, Skarner also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tristana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Tristana matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Skarner is a decent counter to Tristana. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Skarner in order to counter Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner often racks up a lot less CS as Tristana. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Skarner versus Tristana build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Tristana than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 50.9% battling Tristana with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Tristana as Skarner, Skarner players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Skarner vs Tristana face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Tristana as Skarner are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.