Twitch vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Twitch
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Twitch vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Twitch vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Twitch
Tips for Playing as Twitch against Skarner
Contaminate has a large range; apply as many stacks of Deadly Venom as possible before using it.
You can catch up to an enemy out of attack range with Venom Cask.
Twitch's Attack Speed is among the highest in the game; try purchasing items with on-hit effects such as Black Cleaver or Wit's End.
Advice to Win Against Skarner
Skarner can't harm you very much outside of short range, so stay away from him!
Skarner is especially dangerous when inside Crystal Spire zones his team controls. Try to capture them ahead of time if a fight may break out around them.
Skarner's Move Speed is increased as long as his shield, Crystalline Exoskeleton, persists. Attack him to lower his speed.
Twitch vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Twitch in LoL
The stats provided here feature several important Twitch versus Skarner matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Twitch’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Twitch may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Skarner. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Twitch typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Skarner. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Twitch and Skarner
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Who is Better, Twitch or Skarner?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Twitch usually fairs equally well when taking on Skarner, with a 49.8% win rate. As a result, Twitch makes an ok counter for Skarner.
While Twitch does have a lower win rate than Skarner, when on opposite teams, Twitch also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Twitch into Skarner.
Additionally, Twitch has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Twitch vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Twitch is a somewhat poor counter to Skarner. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Twitch against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Twitch to counter Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Twitch often gets much more CS relative to Skarner. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, 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 do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Twitch versus Skarner build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Twitch incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Skarner than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Twitch had an average win rate of 49.8% battling Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Skarner as Twitch, Twitch players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Twitch vs Skarner counters, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
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