Skarner vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Skarner
based on 389 Skarner vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Malzahar
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 Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Skarner vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some significant Skarner vs. Malzahar matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar..
Skarner often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Malzahar. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Skarner or Malzahar?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Skarner usually loses when playing against Malzahar, with a 44.0% win rate. As a result, Skarner makes a bad counter for Malzahar.
While Skarner does have a much lower winrate compared to Malzahar, when facing one another, Skarner also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Skarner into Malzahar.
Furthermore, Skarner also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Skarner is a bad counter to Malzahar. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Skarner against Malzahar.
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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 Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner on average accumulates a lot less CS as Malzahar. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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 require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Skarner versus Malzahar build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Malzahar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 44.0% when playing against Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Malzahar as Skarner, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Skarner vs Malzahar LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Malzahar as Skarner are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.