Skarner vs Volibear
How to Beat Volibear as Skarner
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Skarner vs Volibear Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Volibear as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Volibear
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.
Skarner vs Volibear Counter Stats
How to Counter Volibear with Skarner in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some valuable Skarner vs. Volibear counter stats that can help you realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Volibear’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Volibear..
Skarner often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Volibear. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Volibear
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Who is Better, Skarner or Volibear?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Skarner usually wins when trying to fight Volibear, with a 54.9% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes a great counter for Volibear.
While Skarner does have a much higher winrate than Volibear, when facing one another, Skarner also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Skarner into Volibear.
Moreover, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Volibear. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Volibear matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Skarner is a great counter for Volibear. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Volibear.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Skarner to counter Volibear during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner typically accumulates a lot less CS as Volibear. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Skarner versus Volibear 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 Volibear than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 54.9% when countering Volibear with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Volibear as Skarner, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Skarner vs Volibear fights, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.9% winrate overall.
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