Skarner vs Gnar
How to Beat Gnar as Skarner
based on 128 Skarner vs Gnar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Gnar Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gnar as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Gnar
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 Gnar
Gnar's ultimate stuns if he hits you into a wall. Be careful when fighting him near one.
Gnar's animations and resource bar change as he gets closer to transforming.
Gnar can't gain Rage for 15 seconds after he turns from big to little. Use this chance to engage on his team.
Skarner vs Gnar Counter Stats
How to Counter Gnar with Skarner in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several important Skarner vs. Gnar matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gnar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Gnar..
Skarner usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Gnar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Gnar
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Who is Better, Skarner or Gnar?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Skarner usually wins when taking on Gnar, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes a good counter for Gnar.
While Skarner does have a higher winrate than Gnar, when facing one another, Skarner also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Skarner into Gnar.
Moreover, Skarner also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gnar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Gnar matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Skarner is a decent counter for Gnar. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Skarner against Gnar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to counter Gnar 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 listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Gnar. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Skarner versus Gnar build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Gnar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Gnar 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 combinations players chose for Skarner vs Gnar clashes, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.6% win rate overall.
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