Zac vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Zac
based on 286 Zac vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Skarner
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Zac in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several influential Zac versus Skarner counter stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Skarner..
Zac often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Skarner. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zac and Skarner
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Who is Better, Zac or Skarner?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zac usually wins when trying to fight Skarner, with a 54.9% win rate. Therefore, Zac makes a great counter for Skarner.
While Zac does have a much higher winrate compared to Skarner, when they face off with one another, Zac also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Zac into Skarneras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zac has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zac vs Skarner matchups, Zac is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zac is a great counter for Skarner. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zac against Skarner.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zac
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zac in order to counter Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac most often racks up more CS relative to Skarner. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Zac versus Skarner build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Zac incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Skarner than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zac boasted an average win rate of 54.9% when countering Skarner with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Skarner as Zac, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Zac vs Skarner LoL games, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.9% winrate overall.
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