Alistar vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Alistar
based on 230 Alistar vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Skarner
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several significant Alistar versus Skarner counter stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Skarner. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Skarner. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Skarner
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Who is Better, Alistar or Skarner?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Alistar usually wins when facing off against Skarner, with a 58.7% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes a fantastic counter for Skarner.
While Alistar does have a much higher winrate compared to Skarner, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Alistar into Skarneras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a lot of CC and other utility, 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 isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Skarner matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Alistar is a great counter to Skarner. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to counter Skarner during both the laning 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 presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Skarner. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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 several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Alistar versus Skarner build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Skarner than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 58.7% when playing against Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Skarner as Alistar, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Alistar vs Skarner counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 58.7% win rate overall.
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