Zoe vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Zoe
based on 147 Zoe vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Skarner Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zoe Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Skarner
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Zoe in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several important Zoe against Skarner matchup statistics that can help you realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Skarner..
Zoe typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Skarner. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zoe and Skarner
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Who is Better, Zoe or Skarner?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when taking on Skarner, with a 46.3% win rate. As a result, Zoe makes a poor counter to Skarner.
While Zoe does have a lower win rate compared to Skarner, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zoe into Skarner.
Additionally, Zoe has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zoe is a bad counter to Skarner. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zoe against Skarner.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zoe
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zoe in order to counter Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe usually racks up much more CS compared to Skarner. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Zoe versus Skarner build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Skarner than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zoe had an average win rate of 46.3% when countering Skarner with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Skarner as Zoe, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Zoe vs Skarner counters, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Skarner as Zoe are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.