Skarner vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Skarner
based on 179 Skarner vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Skarner vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several important Skarner vs. Heimerdinger counter stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Heimerdinger..
Skarner often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Heimerdinger. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Skarner or Heimerdinger?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Skarner usually loses when facing off against Heimerdinger, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes a bad counter for Heimerdinger.
While Skarner does have a lower winrate than Heimerdinger, when facing one another, Skarner also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Skarner into Heimerdinger.
Furthermore, Skarner also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. 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 Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Skarner is a somewhat poor counter for Heimerdinger. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Skarner against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to counter Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner often accumulates a lot less CS as Heimerdinger. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Skarner versus Heimerdinger build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Heimerdinger than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 48.6% when countering Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Heimerdinger as Skarner, Skarner players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Skarner vs Heimerdinger fights, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
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