Skarner vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Skarner
based on 244 Skarner vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Kindred
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 Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Skarner vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Skarner in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several strategic Skarner vs. Kindred counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kindred’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kindred..
Skarner often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kindred. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Kindred
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Who is Better, Skarner or Kindred?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually wins when trying to fight Kindred, with a 56.1% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes a fantastic counter to Kindred.
While Skarner does have a much higher winrate than Kindred, when facing one another, Skarner also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Skarner into Kindred.
Additionally, Skarner also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kindred. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Kindred matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Skarner is a great counter to Kindred. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Skarner against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to counter Kindred during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Kindred. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Skarner versus Kindred build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Kindred than with many other common builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 56.1% when countering Kindred with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Kindred 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 builds we have analyed for Skarner vs Kindred counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 56.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kindred as Skarner are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.