Gnar vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Gnar
based on 128 Gnar vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Skarner
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several critical Gnar against Skarner counter stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Skarner..
Gnar usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Skarner. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Skarner
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Who is Better, Gnar or Skarner?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when facing off against Skarner, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes a bad counter for Skarner.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate compared to Skarner, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Gnar into Skarneras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter to Skarner. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to counter Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar often racks up much more CS as Skarner. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Gnar versus Skarner build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Gnar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Skarner than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 48.4% battling Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Skarner as Gnar, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Gnar vs Skarner battles, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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