Skarner vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Skarner
based on 740 Skarner vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Akali
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 Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Skarner vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several vital Skarner against Akali counter stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Akali..
Skarner typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Akali. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Akali
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Who is Better, Skarner or Akali?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Skarner usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Akali, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes an ok counter to Akali.
While Skarner does have a lower winrate compared to Akali, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Skarner into Akali.
Additionally, Skarner also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Skarner is a somewhat poor counter to Akali. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner usually picks up a lot less CS compared to Akali. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Skarner versus Akali build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Skarner bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Akali than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 49.2% battling Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Akali as Skarner, Skarner players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Skarner vs Akali face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
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