Cassiopeia vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Cassiopeia
based on 130 Cassiopeia vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Cassiopeia vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Cassiopeia vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Cassiopeia
Tips for Playing as Cassiopeia against Skarner
Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
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.
Cassiopeia vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Cassiopeia in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some significant Cassiopeia against Skarner counter stats that may help you realize the distinctions between the two. Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Cassiopeia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Skarner..
Cassiopeia normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Skarner. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Cassiopeia and Skarner
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Who is Better, Cassiopeia or Skarner?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Cassiopeia usually loses when playing against Skarner, with a 45.4% win rate. Thus, Cassiopeia makes a poor counter to Skarner.
While Cassiopeia does have a much lower winrate than Skarner, when they face off with one another, Cassiopeia also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Cassiopeia into Skarneras her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Cassiopeia has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Cassiopeia vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Cassiopeia is a bad counter to Skarner. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Cassiopeia against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cassiopeia in order to counter Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cassiopeia usually racks up much more CS relative to Skarner. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Cassiopeia versus Skarner build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Rod of Ages. When Cassiopeia included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Skarner than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Cassiopeia had an average winrate of 45.4% battling Skarner with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Skarner as Cassiopeia, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Cassiopeia vs Skarner LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.4% win rate overall.
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