Skarner vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Skarner
based on 438 Skarner vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Skarner vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several important Skarner vs. Garen counter statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
Skarner often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Garen
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Who is Better, Skarner or Garen?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Skarner usually wins when facing off against Garen, with a 51.4% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes a good counter to Garen.
While Skarner does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when facing one another, Skarner also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Skarner into Garen.
Furthermore, Skarner has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Garen matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Skarner is a decent counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Skarner to counter Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner typically gets a lot less CS relative to Garen. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Skarner versus Garen build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Garen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 51.4% when countering Garen with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Garen as Skarner, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Skarner vs Garen battles, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.4% winrate overall.
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