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Skarner Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 1,244 gamesUpdated

49.1%win rate0.1%pick0.2%ban

Who counters Skarner

How to build Skarner

Plated Steelcaps→Heartsteel→Unending Despair→Fimbulwinter

Plated Steelcaps → Heartsteel → Unending Despair → Fimbulwinter

47.1% win rate 8% of games 51 games
RunesResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashSecond WindOvergrowthSorceryManaflow BandTranscendence39% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport66%
Skills
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Shattered Earth / Upheaval
14578
Seismic Bastion
29101213
Ixtal's Impact
314151718
Impale
61116
StartDoran's ShieldHealth PotionDoran's Shield, Health Potion
Full Skarner build →
49.1%win rate
Patch 26.20: 46.9% over 3,491 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.1% over 1,244 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.4%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
0.2%ban rate
▲ Upwas Tier 3 last patch
45.4%under 22 min
50.3%over 32 min

Skarner Top gets better as the elo rises. 49.1% across Silver and above, and 51.4% at Emerald and up. It rewards players who know the matchup.

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 portraitT SkarnervsGragas champion portraitT Gragas
4 / 3 / 1

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Winter's Approach→Randuin's Omen

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRW
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Skarner champion portraitT SkarnervsCamille champion portraitT Camille
5 / 4 / 6

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Bandlepipes→Heartsteel

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWWEE
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Skarner champion portraitT SkarnervsAatrox champion portraitT Aatrox
7 / 7 / 6

Build

Boots|Eclipse→Voltaic Cyclosword→Mortal Reminder

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRWW

Runes

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

Most popular 48.1% win rate · 39% of games · 310 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashSecond WindOvergrowth
SorceryManaflow BandTranscendence
Shards Attack Speed · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 48.3% win rate · 11% of games · 87 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashConditioningOvergrowth
InspirationApproach VelocityMagical 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
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport66%48.3%847 games
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite26%48.2%328 games

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

Boots
Plated Steelcaps59%Mercury's Treads27%Boots6%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 50.5% 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 Top is at 1,260 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 · 1,260 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Item 11,260 games
Item 21,110 games
Item 3670 games

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
58% · 50.7% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
26% · 50.9% win rate
BootsBoots
5% · 34.4% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
4% · 55.6% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
3% · 42.9% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Heartsteel+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 30.0% win rate · 30 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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