Akshan vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Akshan
based on 210 Akshan vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Skarner
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Akshan vs. Skarner matchup stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Skarner. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Akshan often has a much larger longest killing spree than their counter does. On average, they takes less damage than Skarner. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Skarner
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Who is Better, Akshan or Skarner?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually wins when playing against Skarner, with a 52.4% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a good counter for Skarner.
While Akshan does have a higher winrate than Skarner, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Akshan into Skarner.
Moreover, Akshan has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Skarner matchups, Akshan is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Akshan is a good counter for Skarner. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan usually racks up much more CS compared to Skarner. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Akshan versus Skarner build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better when fighting Skarner than with many other common builds. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 52.4% when countering Skarner with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Skarner as Akshan, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Akshan vs Skarner matchups, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.4% win rate overall.
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