Ahri vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Ahri
based on 375 Ahri vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Skarner
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some vital Ahri against Skarner counter stats that may help us understand the distinctions between the two. Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Skarner..
Ahri typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Skarner. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ahri and Skarner
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Who is Better, Ahri or Skarner?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when playing against Skarner, with a 49.9% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes an ok counter for Skarner.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate compared to Skarner, when facing one another, Ahri also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Skarner.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Ahri vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter for 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 do very well as Ahri against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ahri 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average gets much more CS relative to Skarner. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Ahri versus Skarner build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Skarner than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when countering Skarner with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Skarner as Ahri, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Ahri vs Skarner fights, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
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