Azir vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Azir
based on 177 Azir vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Skarner
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Azir in LoL
The stats provided here show some important Azir vs. Skarner matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Skarner..
Azir often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Skarner. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Skarner
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Who is Better, Azir or Skarner?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually wins when taking on Skarner, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a good counter for Skarner.
While Azir does have a higher win rate than Skarner, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Skarneras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Skarner matchups, Azir is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Azir is a decent counter to Skarner. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Azir in order to counter Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average racks up much more CS as Skarner. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Azir versus Skarner build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Azir included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Skarner than with most other typical builds. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 51.4% when playing against Skarner with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Skarner as Azir, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Azir vs Skarner clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.4% winrate overall.
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