Vayne vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Vayne
based on 690 Vayne vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Skarner Counter Build
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Core Vayne Items
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Skarner
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Vayne in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some critical Vayne against Skarner matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Skarner. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Vayne typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Skarner. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vayne and Skarner
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Who is Better, Vayne or Skarner?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vayne usually wins when playing against Skarner, with a 53.3% win rate. Therefore, Vayne makes a great counter for Skarner.
While Vayne does have a higher winrate compared to Skarner, when facing one another, Vayne also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Vayne into Skarneras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vayne also has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Skarner matchups, Vayne is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Vayne is a great counter to Skarner. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vayne against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vayne in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne on average gets much more CS as Skarner. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Vayne versus Skarner build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Vayne bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Skarner than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vayne had an average win rate of 53.3% when playing against Skarner with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Skarner as Vayne, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Vayne vs Skarner fights, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Skarner as Vayne are displayed for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.