Zed vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Zed
based on 450 Zed vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Skarner
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Zed in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some influential Zed against Skarner matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Skarner. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Zed usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Skarner. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Skarner
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Who is Better, Zed or Skarner?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when trying to fight Skarner, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a poor counter for Skarner.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Skarner, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Skarneras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed also 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 fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter to Skarner. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zed against Skarner.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zed
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed to counter Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed typically picks up much more CS as Skarner. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Zed versus Skarner build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Skarner than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 48.4% battling Skarner with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Skarner as Zed, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Zed vs Skarner clashes, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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