Skarner vs Vi
How to Beat Vi as Skarner
based on 378 Skarner vs Vi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Vi Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vi as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Vi
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 Vi
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
Skarner vs Vi Counter Stats
How to Counter Vi with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several influential Skarner vs. Vi counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Vi..
Skarner often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Vi. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Vi
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Who is Better, Skarner or Vi?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually loses when trying to fight Vi, with a 45.2% win rate. As a result, Skarner makes a poor counter to Vi.
While Skarner does have a much lower winrate compared to Vi, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Skarner into Vi.
Additionally, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Vi matchups, Vi is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Skarner is a trash counter to Vi. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Vi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Skarner in order to counter Vi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Vi. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Skarner versus Vi build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Vi than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 45.2% when playing against Vi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Vi 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 rune combinations players used for Skarner vs Vi battles, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.2% win rate overall.
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