Singed vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Singed
based on 287 Singed vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Singed vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Singed vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Singed
Tips for Playing as Singed against Skarner
Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
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.
Singed vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Singed in LoL
The stats provided here feature some important Singed versus Skarner counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Singed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Singed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Skarner..
Singed usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Skarner. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Singed and Skarner
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Who is Better, Singed or Skarner?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Singed usually wins when taking on Skarner, with a 54.4% win rate. As a result, Singed makes a great counter for Skarner.
While Singed does have a much higher winrate compared to Skarner, when they face off with one another, Singed also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Singed into Skarner.
Additionally, Singed has almost no amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Singed vs Skarner matchups, Singed is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Singed is a great counter to Skarner. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Singed against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Singed in order 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Singed often racks up much more CS as Skarner. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, 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, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Singed versus Skarner build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Dead Man's Plate, and Liandry's Torment. When Singed included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Skarner than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Singed boasted an average winrate of 54.4% when playing against Skarner with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Skarner as Singed, Singed players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Singed vs Skarner fights, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.4% winrate overall.
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