Katarina vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Katarina
based on 450 Katarina vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Skarner
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several strategic Katarina against Skarner counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Skarner. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Skarner. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Skarner
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Who is Better, Katarina or Skarner?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when facing off against Skarner, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes an ok counter to Skarner.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Skarner, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Skarneras her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter to Skarner. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina often racks up much more CS as Skarner. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Katarina versus Skarner build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Skarner than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 49.1% battling Skarner with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Skarner as Katarina, Katarina players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Katarina vs Skarner counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
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