Elise vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Elise
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Elise vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Skarner
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Elise in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some influential Elise versus Skarner counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Skarner. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Elise often has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Skarner. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Elise and Skarner
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Who is Better, Elise or Skarner?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Elise usually loses when taking on Skarner, with a 47.2% win rate. As a result, Elise makes a bad counter to Skarner.
While Elise does have a lower win rate than Skarner, when they face off with one another, Elise also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Elise into Skarneras her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Elise has almost no amount of utility and CC, 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 a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Elise vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Elise is a trash counter to Skarner. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Elise against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Elise in order to counter Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Skarner. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Elise versus Skarner build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Elise incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Skarner than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Elise had an average win rate of 47.2% battling Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Skarner as Elise, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Elise vs Skarner matchups, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Skarner as Elise are given for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.