Bard vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Bard
based on 375 Bard vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Skarner
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Bard in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several important Bard versus Skarner matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between this set of champions. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Skarner. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Skarner. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Skarner
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Who is Better, Bard or Skarner?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Skarner, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a good counter for Skarner.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Skarner, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Bard into Skarneras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good 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 in League of Legends, in Bard vs Skarner matchups, Bard is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Bard is a decent counter for Skarner. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Skarner. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Bard versus Skarner build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Skarner than with most other common builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Skarner with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Skarner as Bard, Bard players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Bard vs Skarner matchups, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.5% win rate overall.
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