Skarner vs Ahri
How to Beat Ahri as Skarner
based on 375 Skarner vs Ahri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Ahri Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ahri as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Ahri
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Advice to Win Against Ahri
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
Skarner vs Ahri Counter Stats
How to Counter Ahri with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some influential Skarner vs. Ahri matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ahri’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ahri..
Skarner usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Ahri. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Ahri
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Who is Better, Skarner or Ahri?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Skarner usually fairs equally well when playing against Ahri, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Skarner makes an ok counter for Ahri.
While Skarner does have a higher winrate compared to Ahri, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Skarner into Ahri.
Additionally, Skarner also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ahri. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Ahri matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Skarner is a decent counter to Ahri. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Ahri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Skarner to counter Ahri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner most often picks up a lot less CS relative to Ahri. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Skarner versus Ahri build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Ahri than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when countering Ahri with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Ahri as Skarner, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Skarner vs Ahri face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
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