Skarner vs Rumble
How to Beat Rumble as Skarner
based on 224 Skarner vs Rumble matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Rumble Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Rumble Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rumble as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Rumble
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 Rumble
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
Skarner vs Rumble Counter Stats
How to Counter Rumble with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some important Skarner versus Rumble counter statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rumble’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rumble..
Skarner normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Rumble. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Rumble
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Who is Better, Skarner or Rumble?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually fairs equally well when facing off against Rumble, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes an ok counter for Rumble.
While Skarner does have a lower winrate compared to Rumble, when facing one another, Skarner also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Skarner into Rumble.
Furthermore, Skarner has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rumble. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Rumble matchups, Rumble is the better champ with a similar 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 to Rumble. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Rumble.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to counter Rumble during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner typically accumulates a lot less CS relative to Rumble. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Skarner versus Rumble 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 a lot better against Rumble than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 49.1% battling Rumble with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Rumble 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 runes players picked for Skarner vs Rumble counters, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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