Skarner vs Ezreal
How to Beat Ezreal as Skarner
based on 693 Skarner vs Ezreal matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Ezreal Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Ezreal Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ezreal as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Ezreal
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 Ezreal
Ezreal is a very fragile champion so take the fight to him.
Ezreal is completely skill shot based, so make sure to keep minions in between you.
Mystic Shot applies on-hit effects including the Crest of Cinders.
Skarner vs Ezreal Counter Stats
How to Counter Ezreal with Skarner in LoL
The stats provided here feature several critical Skarner versus Ezreal matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ezreal’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Ezreal..
Skarner usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Ezreal. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Ezreal
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Who is Better, Skarner or Ezreal?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually wins when facing off against Ezreal, with a 52.4% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes a good counter to Ezreal.
While Skarner does have a higher winrate compared to Ezreal, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Skarner into Ezreal.
Additionally, Skarner also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ezreal. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Ezreal 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Skarner is an above average counter for Ezreal. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Skarner against Ezreal.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Skarner in order to counter Ezreal during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner on average accumulates a lot less CS as Ezreal. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Skarner versus Ezreal build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Skarner combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Ezreal than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when playing against Ezreal with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Ezreal 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 we have analyed for Skarner vs Ezreal clashes, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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