Fiddlesticks vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Fiddlesticks
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Fiddlesticks vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Fiddlesticks vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Fiddlesticks
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.
Fiddlesticks vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Fiddlesticks in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some critical Fiddlesticks vs. Skarner matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Skarner..
Fiddlesticks normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Skarner. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Fiddlesticks and Skarner
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Who is Better, Fiddlesticks or Skarner?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually loses when taking on Skarner, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Fiddlesticks makes a poor counter to Skarner.
While Fiddlesticks does have a lower win rate compared to Skarner, when on opposite teams, Fiddlesticks also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Fiddlesticks into Skarneras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Fiddlesticks has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks 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 allies during teamfights.
Fiddlesticks is a trash counter to Skarner. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Fiddlesticks against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Fiddlesticks 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Skarner. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Fiddlesticks versus Skarner build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Banshee's Veil, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Fiddlesticks included at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Skarner than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks had an average winrate of 47.1% when playing against Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Skarner as Fiddlesticks, Fiddlesticks players should take the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Fiddlesticks vs Skarner battles, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.1% winrate overall.
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