Skarner vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Skarner
based on 130 Skarner vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Cassiopeia
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 Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Skarner vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Skarner in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some important Skarner versus Cassiopeia counter stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Cassiopeia..
Skarner normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Cassiopeia. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Skarner or Cassiopeia?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Skarner usually wins when facing off against Cassiopeia, with a 54.6% win rate. As a result, Skarner makes a great counter to Cassiopeia.
While Skarner does have a much higher winrate than Cassiopeia, when facing one another, Skarner also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Skarner into Cassiopeia.
Moreover, Skarner has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Cassiopeia matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Skarner is a great counter to Cassiopeia. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to counter Cassiopeia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner usually gets a lot less CS as Cassiopeia. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Skarner versus Cassiopeia build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Cassiopeia than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 54.6% when playing against Cassiopeia with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Cassiopeia as Skarner, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Skarner vs Cassiopeia counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.6% win rate overall.
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