Veigar vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Veigar
based on 428 Veigar vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Skarner Counter Build
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Early Items
Core Veigar Items
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Skarner
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Veigar in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some vital Veigar versus Skarner counter stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Skarner. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Veigar typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Skarner. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Skarner
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Who is Better, Veigar or Skarner?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Veigar usually wins when facing off against Skarner, with a 52.3% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes a good counter to Skarner.
While Veigar does have a higher winrate compared to Skarner, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Veigar into Skarneras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Skarner matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Veigar is an above average counter to Skarner. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Skarner.
Other Champion Matchups Against Veigar
Additional Information for Veigar Players
How We Calculated Our Veigar vs Skarner Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar to counter Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar often accumulates much more CS compared to Skarner. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Veigar versus Skarner build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Skarner than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 52.3% battling Skarner with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Skarner as Veigar, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Veigar vs Skarner counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.3% win rate overall.
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