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Skarner champion portrait

Skarner Build

Support Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 1,678 gamesUpdated

48.4%win rate0.1%pick0.2%ban

Who counters Skarner

Every Support matchup for Skarner, ranked →

How to build Skarner

Boots of Swiftness→Titanic Hydra→Protoplasm Harness→Dead Man's Plate

Boots of Swiftness → Titanic Hydra → Protoplasm Harness → Dead Man's Plate

57.5% win rate 7% of games 40 games
RunesDominationHail of BladesCheap ShotDeep WardRelentless HunterInspirationMagical FootwearJack Of All Trades14% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite66%
Skills
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Shattered Earth / Upheaval
14578
Seismic Bastion
39101213
Ixtal's Impact
214151718
Impale
61116
StartWorld AtlasHealth PotionHealth PotionWorld Atlas, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Skarner build →

Best ADCs for Skarner

Who Skarner has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Worst ADCs for Skarner

Who Skarner has the worst record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

48.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 47.2% over 4,466 gamesPatch 26.21: 48.4% over 1,678 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
46.5%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
0.2%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
56.4%under 22 min
47.5%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 30–35m
MASTER+
Skarner champion portraitS Skarner+Jhin champion portraitB JhinvsNautilus champion portraitS Nautilus+Aurelion Sol champion portraitB Aurelion Sol
4 / 10 / 16

Build

BloodsongPlated Steelcaps|Titanic Hydra→Bandlepipes→Knight's Vow

Spells & runes

HealFlash|

Skills

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Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Skarner champion portraitS Skarner+Taliyah champion portraitB TaliyahvsRenata Glasc champion portraitS Renata Glasc+Kalista champion portraitB Kalista
5 / 7 / 9

Build

BloodsongPlated Steelcaps|Titanic Hydra

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Win 40–45m
MASTER+
Skarner champion portraitS Skarner+Kog'Maw champion portraitB Kog'MawvsLulu champion portraitS Lulu+Twitch champion portraitB Twitch
7 / 12 / 18

Build

BloodsongBoots of Swiftness|Titanic Hydra→Bandlepipes→Locket of the Iron Solari→Randuin's Omen

Spells & runes

HealFlash|

Skills

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Runes

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

Most popular 53.0% win rate · 14% of games · 151 games
DominationHail of BladesCheap ShotDeep WardRelentless Hunter
InspirationMagical FootwearJack Of All Trades
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health
Runner up 45.5% win rate · 9% of games · 99 games
ResolveAftershockShield BashConditioningOvergrowth
InspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear
Shards Ability Haste · Health Scaling · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite66%48.4%1,143 games
  • FlashHealFlash + Heal20%47.9%338 games

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

Boots
Boots of Swiftness33%Plated Steelcaps28%Mercury's Treads22%
Boots of Swiftness most often · 52.2% win rate
Support item
Bloodsong52%Celestial Opposition32%Solstice Sleigh16%
Bloodsong most often · 48.3% win rate

Skarner build

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

Whole-build counts start over with every patch, and Skarner Support is at 1,690 games so far this patch. The full build shows up here at 300.

Every slot, boots and full build for Skarner →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 1,690 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
32% · 52.5% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
28% · 45.3% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
22% · 50.0% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
8% · 46.8% win rate
Slightly Magical FootwearSlightly Magical Footwear
5% · 39.7% win rate
BootsBoots
4% · 41.3% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Titanic Hydra›Dead Man's Plate+Boots of Swiftness4% of games · 57.5% win rate · 73 games
  2. Titanic Hydra+Boots of Swiftness4% of games · 47.7% win rate · 65 games
  3. Titanic Hydra+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 33.3% win rate · 57 games
  4. Titanic Hydra+Slightly Magical Footwear2% of games · 45.9% win rate · 37 games
  5. Titanic Hydra+Mercury's Treads2% of games · 43.8% win rate · 32 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. The best and worst ADCs are ranked the same way, against Skarner's average instead of 50%.

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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