Gragas vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Gragas
based on 220 Gragas vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Skarner
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Gragas in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several valuable Gragas against Skarner counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Skarner..
Gragas usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Skarner. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Skarner
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Who is Better, Gragas or Skarner?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually loses when facing off against Skarner, with a 46.4% win rate. Thus, Gragas makes a bad counter for Skarner.
While Gragas does have a lower winrate compared to Skarner, when on opposite teams, Gragas also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gragas into Skarner.
Moreover, Gragas has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Gragas is a garbage counter to Skarner. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gragas against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gragas 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas on average accumulates more CS relative to Skarner. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Gragas versus Skarner build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Cryptbloom. When Gragas bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Skarner than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 46.4% when countering Skarner with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Skarner as Gragas, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Gragas vs Skarner counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.4% win rate overall.
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