Skarner vs Seraphine
How to Beat Seraphine as Skarner
based on 603 Skarner vs Seraphine matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Seraphine Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Seraphine Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Seraphine as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Seraphine
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.
Skarner vs Seraphine Counter Stats
How to Counter Seraphine with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several influential Skarner against Seraphine counter statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Seraphine’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Seraphine..
Skarner often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Seraphine. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Seraphine
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Who is Better, Skarner or Seraphine?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually fairs equally well when playing against Seraphine, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes an ok counter for Seraphine.
While Skarner does have a lower winrate compared to Seraphine, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Skarner into Seraphine.
Additionally, Skarner has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Seraphine. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Seraphine matchups, Seraphine is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Skarner is a somewhat poor counter to Seraphine. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Seraphine.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to counter Seraphine during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner on average gets less CS relative to Seraphine. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Skarner versus Seraphine build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Seraphine than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 49.1% battling Seraphine with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Seraphine as Skarner, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Skarner vs Seraphine counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Seraphine as Skarner are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.