Kog'Maw vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Kog'Maw
based on 98 Kog'Maw vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Skarner
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
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.
Kog'Maw vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several influential Kog'Maw vs. Skarner matchup stats that can help you realize the differences between the pair. Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Skarner..
Kog'Maw usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Skarner. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Skarner
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Skarner?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kog'Maw usually loses when taking on Skarner, with a 42.9% win rate. As a result, Kog'Maw makes a poor counter for Skarner.
While Kog'Maw does have a much lower winrate than Skarner, when facing one another, Kog'Maw also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Kog'Maw into Skarner.
Additionally, Kog'Maw has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kog'Maw is a bad counter to Skarner. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kog'Maw against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw in order to counter Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw often gets much more CS relative to Skarner. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Kog'Maw versus Skarner build include Guardian Angel, Runaan's Hurricane, and Wit's End. When Kog'Maw incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Skarner than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average winrate of 42.9% when playing against Skarner with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Skarner as Kog'Maw, Kog'Maw players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Kog'Maw vs Skarner face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 42.9% winrate overall.
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