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Skarner champion portrait

Skarner Build

Jungle Tier 4

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 8,171 gamesUpdated

49.3%win rate0.4%pick0.2%ban

Who counters Skarner

Every Jungle matchup for Skarner, ranked →

How to build Skarner

Plated Steelcaps→Heartsteel→Unending Despair→Spirit Visage

Plated Steelcaps → Heartsteel → Unending Despair → Spirit Visage

58.7% win rate 22% of games 1,150 games
RunesResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashConditioningOvergrowthInspirationApproach VelocityMagical Footwear42% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite98%
Skills
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Shattered Earth / Upheaval
14578
Seismic Bastion
29101213
Ixtal's Impact
314151718
Impale
61116
StartScorchclaw PupScorchclaw Pup
Full Skarner build →
49.3%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.0% over 21,384 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.3% over 8,171 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.7%at Emerald+
0.4%pick rate
0.2%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
49.7%under 22 min
49.4%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Skarner champion portraitJ SkarnervsEvelynn champion portraitJ Evelynn
3 / 5 / 5

Build

Scorchclaw PupMercury's Treads|Heartsteel

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQW
Win 40–45m
MASTER+
Skarner champion portraitJ SkarnervsRengar champion portraitJ Rengar
14 / 6 / 23

Build

Mosstomper SeedlingMercury's Treads|Heartsteel→Sterak's Gage→Randuin's Omen→Spirit Visage

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWWEEREE
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Skarner champion portraitJ SkarnervsHecarim champion portraitJ Hecarim
5 / 2 / 7

Build

Scorchclaw PupBoots|Heartsteel→Unending Despair

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWWEE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 50.2% win rate · 42% of games · 3,228 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashConditioningOvergrowth
InspirationApproach VelocityMagical Footwear
Shards Ability Haste · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 50.3% win rate · 19% of games · 1,462 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashConditioningOvergrowth
InspirationMagical FootwearApproach Velocity
Shards Ability Haste · Health Scaling · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite — 98% of games, 49.6% win rate. No real variation.

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps53%Mercury's Treads41%Slightly Magical Footwear5%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 49.2% win rate
Jungle pet
Scorchclaw Pup70%
7 of 10 recent games started Scorchclaw Pup

Skarner build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Unending Despair1st
  2. Heartsteel2nd
  3. Spirit Visage3rd
10% of games that reach a third item take this path57.2% win rate558 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Skarner →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 8,374 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
51% · 49.2% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
40% · 50.5% win rate
Slightly Magical FootwearSlightly Magical Footwear
4% · 47.5% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
2% · 56.1% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 41.7% win rate
BootsBoots
1% · 38.6% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Unending Despair›Heartsteel+Plated Steelcaps4% of games · 43.8% win rate · 340 games
  2. Heartsteel+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 40.1% win rate · 282 games
  3. Unending Despair›Heartsteel+Mercury's Treads3% of games · 39.1% win rate · 238 games
  4. Heartsteel›Unending Despair+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 35.9% win rate · 217 games
  5. Heartsteel+Mercury's Treads2% of games · 45.9% win rate · 207 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Skarner against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Skarner's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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