Rengar vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Rengar
based on 413 Rengar vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rengar vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Rengar vs Skarner Counter Build
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Core Rengar Items
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Rengar
Tips for Playing as Rengar against Skarner
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
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.
Rengar vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Rengar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several influential Rengar vs. Skarner counter statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between these two champs. Rengar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rengar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Skarner. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Rengar usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Skarner. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rengar and Skarner
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Who is Better, Rengar or Skarner?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rengar usually wins when trying to fight Skarner, with a 53.8% win rate. Therefore, Rengar makes a great counter for Skarner.
While Rengar does have a higher winrate than Skarner, when on opposite teams, Rengar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Rengar into Skarneras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Rengar has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Rengar vs Skarner matchups, Rengar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Rengar is a great counter to Skarner. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rengar against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rengar 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 pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rengar on average gets a similar amount of CS as Skarner. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Rengar versus Skarner build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Hubris, and Profane Hydra. When Rengar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Skarner than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Rengar had an average win rate of 53.8% when countering Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Skarner as Rengar, Rengar players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Rengar vs Skarner matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.8% winrate overall.
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