Skarner vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Skarner
based on 413 Skarner vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao
Xin Zhao relies heavily on his Three Talon Strikes for damage and cooldown resets, so preventing him from finishing his combo will have a dramatic effect.
Xin Zhao is a powerful initiator with both his charge and ultimate dealing damage to all units around him. Try having your team stay spread out until he's used his ultimate.
Skarner vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown here show several important Skarner vs. Xin Zhao counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, showing that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Xin Zhao..
Skarner typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Skarner or Xin Zhao?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually loses when trying to fight Xin Zhao, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Skarner makes a bad counter for Xin Zhao.
While Skarner does have a lower winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Skarner into Xin Zhao.
Additionally, Skarner also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champ with a lower 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 somewhat poor counter for Xin Zhao. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Skarner against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Skarner versus Xin Zhao build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Xin Zhao than with many other typical builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 48.7% when playing against Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Xin Zhao as Skarner, Skarner players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Skarner vs Xin Zhao counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
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