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.
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
The stats shown on this page clarify some vital Skarner vs. Singed counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Singed’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Singed..
Skarner often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Singed. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually loses when trying to fight Singed, with a 45.6% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes a bad counter to Singed.
While Skarner does have a much lower winrate compared to Singed, when facing one another, Skarner also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Skarner into Singed.
Additionally, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Singed. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Singed matchups, Singed is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Skarner is a trash counter for Singed. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Singed.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to counter Singed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Singed. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Skarner versus Singed build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Singed than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 45.6% when playing against Singed with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Singed as Skarner, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Skarner vs Singed clashes, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
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