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Skarner Top build & stats

TankFighter – 59 games · patch 16.18
Win rate
40.7%
Pick rate
0.2%
Ban rate
0.3%
Solo/Duo Flex ARAM
16.18 16.17 16.16
Division
All divisions
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Recommended build

Chosen by win rate among builds with enough games, from ranked matches of high-elo players on patch 16.18

Built from single items

Best three items so far

Unending Despair
Unending Despair
2,800 gold
Spirit Visage
Spirit Visage
2,700 gold
Thornmail
Thornmail
2,450 gold
7,950 gold
66.7% WR each item separately

Boots

Mercury's Treads
Mercury's Treads
1,250 gold
50.0% 18 games

Runes

Resolve Resolve + Sorcery Sorcery
33.3% WR
12 games · 20% pick
Grasp of the Undying
Grasp of the Undying

Every 4s your next attack on a champion deals bonus magic damage, heals you, and permanently increases your health.

Resolve Resolve
Grasp of the Undying Aftershock Guardian
Shield Bash Demolish Font of Life
Conditioning Second Wind Bone Plating
Unflinching Overgrowth Revitalize
Sorcery Sorcery
Axiom Arcanist Manaflow Band Nimbus Cloak
Transcendence Absolute Focus Celerity
Waterwalking Gathering Storm Scorch
Shards
Adaptive Force Attack Speed Ability Haste
Adaptive Force Move Speed Health Scaling
Health Tenacity and Slow Resist Health Scaling

Summoner spells

Flash Ignite
38.5% 13 games

Each line is the variant with the best win rate among those played enough times, not simply the most popular one. Win rates are smoothed so a lucky three-game build can't top the list. Not enough players have finished the same three items yet, so the core above is the three strongest items measured one by one. Sample sizes are shown next to every choice.

Tips for Skarner

Generated from this patch's numbers

  • Skarner wins 40.7% of games as Top on patch 16.18 (59 games).
  • Take Grasp of the Undying as keystone: picked in 66% of games with a 44% win rate.

Items

Most common sets of three completed items

Core build

Not enough games yet.

Starting items

Doran's Helm
Doran's Helm
Health Potion
Health Potion
50.0% WR
2 games · 3% pick

Boots

Plated Steelcaps
Plated Steelcaps
47.8% WR
23 games · 39% pick
Mercury's Treads
Mercury's Treads
50.0% WR
18 games · 31% pick
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
25.0% WR
4 games · 7% pick

Legendary items by win rate

ItemWin ratePick
Unending Despair Unending Despair
 80.0% 17% (10)
Spirit Visage Spirit Visage
 77.8% 15% (9)
Thornmail Thornmail
 66.7% 10% (6)
Sunfire Aegis Sunfire Aegis
 62.5% 14% (8)
Heartsteel Heartsteel
 52.4% 36% (21)
Frozen Heart Frozen Heart
 50.0% 7% (4)
Jak'Sho, The Protean Jak'Sho, The Protean
 50.0% 7% (4)
Titanic Hydra Titanic Hydra
 35.3% 29% (17)
Hollow Radiance Hollow Radiance
 33.3% 10% (6)
Black Cleaver Black Cleaver
 33.3% 5% (3)
Protoplasm Harness Protoplasm Harness
 33.3% 5% (3)
Randuin's Omen Randuin's Omen
 25.0% 7% (4)

Runes

Most played full pages and keystone win rates

Resolve Resolve + Sorcery Sorcery
33.3% WR
12 games · 20% pick
Grasp of the Undying
Grasp of the Undying

Every 4s your next attack on a champion deals bonus magic damage, heals you, and permanently increases your health.

Resolve Resolve
Grasp of the Undying Aftershock Guardian
Shield Bash Demolish Font of Life
Conditioning Second Wind Bone Plating
Unflinching Overgrowth Revitalize
Sorcery Sorcery
Axiom Arcanist Manaflow Band Nimbus Cloak
Transcendence Absolute Focus Celerity
Waterwalking Gathering Storm Scorch
Shards
Adaptive Force Attack Speed Ability Haste
Adaptive Force Move Speed Health Scaling
Health Tenacity and Slow Resist Health Scaling
Resolve Resolve + Inspiration Inspiration
50.0% WR
4 games · 7% pick
Grasp of the Undying Shield Bash Bone Plating Overgrowth Magical Footwear Triple Tonic
Resolve Resolve + Inspiration Inspiration
33.3% WR
3 games · 5% pick
Grasp of the Undying Shield Bash Conditioning Overgrowth Approach Velocity Magical Footwear

Keystones

  • Grasp of the Undying Grasp of the Undying Every 4s your next attack on a champion deals bonus magic damage, heals you, and permanently increases your health. 43.6%66% pick
  • Arcane Comet Arcane Comet Damaging a champion with an ability hurls a damaging comet at their location. 20.0%8% pick
  • Hail of Blades Hail of Blades Gain a large amount of Attack Speed and bonus true damage for the first 3 attacks made against enemy champions. 25.0%7% pick
  • First Strike First Strike When you initiate champion combat, deal 7% extra damage for 3 seconds and gain gold based on damage dealt. 66.7%5% pick

Summoner spells

  • Flash Teleport Flash + Teleport 40.9%75% pick
  • Flash Ignite Flash + Ignite 38.5%22% pick

Abilities & skill order

  • PThreads of Vibration

    Skarner's Attacks, Shattered Earth, Upheaval, and Impale, apply Quaking. At max stacks of Quaking, enemies take max Health magic damage over its duration.

  • QShattered Earth / Upheaval

    Skarner rips a boulder from the earth that empowers his attacks and can be thrown as a powerful projectile.

  • WSeismic Bastion

    Skarner gains a shield and creates an earthquake whose shockwave damages and slows foes.

  • EIxtal's Impact

    Skarner charges forward and passes through terrain. If he collides with a champion or large monster, he'll slam them into the next wall he hits to damage and stun them.

  • RImpale

    Skarner's tails lash forward to suppress enemy champions. Once suppressed, the victims will be dragged along by Skarner as he moves around.