Skarner vs Talon
How to Beat Talon as Skarner
based on 281 Skarner vs Talon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Talon Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Talon as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Talon
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 Talon
Talon is heavily reliant on Shadow Assault to escape a fight. When it is down he's significantly more vulnerable.
Talon has unrivaled roaming ability. Make sure to keep track of his position or force him to stay in lane by pushing aggressively.
Talon's attacks are all physical damage. Build armor early to counter his burst damage.
Skarner vs Talon Counter Stats
How to Counter Talon with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several critical Skarner vs. Talon matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Talon’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Talon..
Skarner normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Talon. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Talon
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Who is Better, Skarner or Talon?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Skarner usually loses when facing off against Talon, with a 42.0% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes a bad counter for Talon.
While Skarner does have a much lower win rate compared to Talon, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Skarner into Talon.
Additionally, Skarner has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Talon. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Talon matchups, Talon is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Skarner is a terribly counter for Talon. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Talon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Skarner in order to counter Talon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner typically picks up less CS relative to Talon. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Skarner versus Talon build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Talon than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 42.0% when countering Talon with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Talon as Skarner, Skarner players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Skarner vs Talon battles, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 42.0% win rate overall.
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