Skarner vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Skarner
based on 315 Skarner vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Skarner vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several critical Skarner vs. Irelia counter stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Irelia..
Skarner typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Irelia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Irelia
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Who is Better, Skarner or Irelia?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually loses when playing against Irelia, with a 47.6% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes a poor counter to Irelia.
While Skarner does have a lower winrate than Irelia, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Skarner into Irelia.
Moreover, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Skarner is a terribly counter for Irelia. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to counter Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner on average gets a lot less CS as Irelia. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Skarner versus Irelia build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner used at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Irelia than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 47.6% when playing against Irelia with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Irelia as Skarner, Skarner players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Skarner vs Irelia face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% winrate overall.
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