Urgot vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Urgot
based on 234 Urgot vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Urgot vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Urgot vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Urgot
Tips for Playing as Urgot against Skarner
Save Fear Beyond Death for opponents you know are already too weak to survive. It's especially good for picking off fleeing foes.
Pay attention to your individual leg's cooldowns, as they make for a signficiant portion of your damage
Land Corrosive Charge or Disdain to lock on to target's with Purge - a great way to trigger multiple legs in rapid succession.
Advice to Win Against Skarner
Skarner can't harm you very much outside of short range, so stay away from him!
Skarner is especially dangerous when inside Crystal Spire zones his team controls. Try to capture them ahead of time if a fight may break out around them.
Skarner's Move Speed is increased as long as his shield, Crystalline Exoskeleton, persists. Attack him to lower his speed.
Urgot vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Urgot in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some strategic Urgot versus Skarner matchup stats that may help us explain the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Urgot’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Urgot may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Skarner..
Urgot typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Skarner. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Urgot and Skarner
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Who is Better, Urgot or Skarner?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Urgot usually wins when taking on Skarner, with a 53.0% win rate. Thus, Urgot makes a good counter to Skarner.
While Urgot does have a higher win rate than Skarner, when facing one another, Urgot also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Urgot into Skarneras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Urgot also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Urgot vs Skarner matchups, Urgot is the better champ 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.
Urgot is a good counter to Skarner. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Urgot against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Urgot to counter Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Urgot typically accumulates much more CS relative to Skarner. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Urgot versus Skarner build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Urgot included at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Skarner than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Urgot had an average win rate of 53.0% when countering Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Skarner as Urgot, you should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Urgot vs Skarner matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.0% winrate overall.
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