Vladimir vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Vladimir
based on 382 Vladimir vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vladimir vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Vladimir vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Vladimir against Skarner
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Vladimir in LoL
The stats shown here show some critical Vladimir against Skarner counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Vladimir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vladimir may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Skarner..
Vladimir often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Skarner. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vladimir and Skarner
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Who is Better, Vladimir or Skarner?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vladimir usually wins when facing off against Skarner, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Vladimir makes a good counter to Skarner.
While Vladimir does have a higher winrate compared to Skarner, when facing one another, Vladimir also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vladimir into Skarneras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vladimir also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vladimir vs Skarner matchups, Vladimir is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Vladimir is a decent counter for Skarner. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Vladimir against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir to counter Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vladimir usually gets much more CS as Skarner. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Vladimir versus Skarner build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Vladimir combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Skarner than with most other common builds. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average winrate of 51.6% when playing against Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Skarner as Vladimir, Vladimir players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Vladimir vs Skarner counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Skarner as Vladimir are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.