Akali vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Akali
based on 740 Akali vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Skarner
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Akali in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several important Akali against Skarner counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Skarner. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Akali normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Skarner. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Skarner
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Who is Better, Akali or Skarner?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually fairs equally well when playing against Skarner, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Akali makes an ok counter to Skarner.
While Akali does have a higher winrate compared to Skarner, when on opposite teams, Akali also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Akali into Skarneras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Akali also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali vs Skarner matchups, Akali is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Akali is a decent counter for Skarner. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akali against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akali to counter Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali often accumulates much more CS compared to Skarner. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Akali versus Skarner build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Skarner than with most other typical builds. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 50.8% when playing against Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Skarner as Akali, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Akali vs Skarner counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.8% win rate overall.
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