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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some vital Yuumi versus Skarner counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Skarner. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Yuumi often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Skarner. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when trying to fight Skarner, with a 45.6% win rate. Therefore, Yuumi makes a poor counter for Skarner.
While Yuumi does have a much lower winrate compared to Skarner, when on opposite teams, Yuumi also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Yuumi into Skarner.
Furthermore, Yuumi also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Yuumi is a garbage counter to Skarner. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Yuumi against Skarner.
If you would like to truly master Yuumi in order to counter Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi typically accumulates less CS compared to Skarner. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Yuumi versus Skarner build consist of Mikael's Blessing, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Yuumi bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Skarner than with many other common item sets. In fact, Yuumi had an average win rate of 45.6% when countering Skarner with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Skarner as Yuumi, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Yuumi vs Skarner battles, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Skarner as Yuumi are given for every ranked division. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.