Skarner vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Skarner
based on 145 Skarner vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Skarner vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several influential Skarner versus Taliyah matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taliyah..
Skarner usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Taliyah. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Skarner or Taliyah?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually wins when trying to fight Taliyah, with a 51.0% win rate. Thus, Skarner makes a good counter to Taliyah.
While Skarner does have a higher winrate than Taliyah, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Skarner into Taliyah.
Additionally, Skarner also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Taliyah matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Skarner is a decent counter to Taliyah. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to counter Taliyah during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner usually racks up less CS as Taliyah. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Skarner versus Taliyah build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Taliyah than with many other common builds. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 51.0% when countering Taliyah with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Taliyah as Skarner, Skarner players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Skarner vs Taliyah LoL games, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Taliyah as Skarner are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.