Best Skarner Build Guide | Runes | Spells | Items in LoL
If you like playing tanky champions in the jungle, then you've probably heard of Skarner. Find out all about the best Skarned build, summoner spells, counters, skill order, Skarner runes, and much more with our complete guide. Let's start!
Best Skarner Build
Skarner jungle build is so easy to understand, you may get as many tank items as you can in order to be an excellent front line for your team. Skarner's abilities are really great to be used with tanky item builds such as turbo chemtank, dead man's plate, plated steelcape and others.
Best Skarner Runes
As Skarner jungle, you may choose the best runes to take advantage of the crystalline exoskeleton and all abilities as much as possible, as well as to reduce ability haste. For that reason, consider using the following Skarner runes. As the primary rune set, Sorcery with phase rush, nimbus cloak, celerity, and waterwalking. As a secondary rune set, Inspiration with magical footwear and cosmic insight. This will allow Skarner jungle to have a better early game. Some people also use glacial augment with Skarner!
Best Rune Path | Sorcery  | Inspiration  |
Best Keystone | Phase Rush  | |
Best Slot 1 (Rune) | Nimbus Cloak  | Magical Footwear  |
Best Slot 2 (Rune) | Celerity  | Cosmic Insight 
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Best Slot 3 (Rune) | Waterwalking  |
Best Skarner Rune Shards
Rune shards are also really important for Skarner. They will help you to deal more damage with auto attacks as a melee champion and support your team during the team fights. For that reason, consider the following rune shards: Offense (+10% attack speed), Offense (+9 attack speed), and Flex (+6 Armor).
Best Rune Shards | Effect |
Offense  | +10% attack speed |
Offense  | +9 Adaptive Force |
Flex  | +6 Armor |
Best Skarner Summoner's Spells
Dealing damage with Skarner jungle can be difficult in some cases against ranged champions, but, if your goal is to apply a huge amount of Crowd Control against enemy champions so you may use Flash and Smite as summoner spells. Those summoner spells will help you to survive the early game and initiate team fights easily.
Best Spells | Icon |
Flash |  |
Smite |  |
Best Skarner Abilities Order
Skarner abilities are so powerful to ralentize and stunt nearby enemies, and apply magic damage and physical damage, so it's important to level up correctly to take advantage of all this. So, the skill order for Skarner jungle is Q (Crystal Slash), W (Crystalline Exoskeleton) and E (Fracture). This will allow you to CC enemies and gain movement speed using the crystal vanguard and destroy the enemy team!
Best Skarner items
When playing Skarner jungle, the core items are almost the same all the time. As a tanky champion, you may buy heal, armor and magic resistance items to handle the enemies' damage and tank as much as possible. For that reason, Turbo chemtank is the best mythic item for Skarner in the patch 12.18.
Best Starter Skarner Items
The best League of legends Skarner build and starter items are Hailblade and Refillable Potion. This will allow Skarner to survive the early game and escalate really well to the late game. It's important to get the best starter items to dominate the jungle role with Skarner.
First Item | Second Item |
Hailblade  | Refillable Potion  |
Best Mid Game Skarner Items
There are not several mythic items to use with Skarner because the Turbo chemtank is the best one to synergize with Skarner abilities. Also, you may buy Ionian boots of lucidity to improve your ability haste and Dead Man's Plate to improve movement speed to gank enemies. These are the items with the highest win rate and will help to spam Skarner Q against enemies.
First Item | Second Item | Third Item |
Turbo chemtank  | Dead Man's Plate  | Ionian boots of lucidity  |
Best Final Late Game Skarner Items
In the late game, Skarner is an amazing killing machine in the summoner's rift. For that reason, consider getting the following items: Turbo chemtank, Force of nature, Ionian boots of lucidity, Dead man's plate, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. This will increase crystal slash damage and will help you to take advantage of the ruby crystal passive.
First Item | Second Item | Third Item | Fourth Item | Fifth Item | Sixth Item |
Turbo chemtank | Dead Man's Plate | Ionian boots of lucidity | Force of Nature  | Thornmail  | Randuin's Omen  |
Best Champions to pair Skarner with
Skarner fits really well with those champions who can deal a lot of damage in long fights. So, Nasus, Maokai, and Darius are the best champions to pair Skarner with and destroy the enemy team in seconds. You may also read our guide about the best Amumu build in LoL. Which is another good champion to pair with Skarner.
Champion | Win Rate % | Icon |
56% |  | |
56% |  | |
55% |  |
Strongest Champions against Skarner
On the other hand, Maokai, Jarvan IV, and Udyr are strong against Skarner, so avoid playing Skarner against these champions because can easily outplay you and easily make Skarner's life impossible in the late game.
Champion | Win Rate % | Icon |
46% | | |
47% |  | |
48% |  |
Weakest Champions against Skarner
Blitzcrank, Hecarim, and Evelynn are too weak against Skarner and can't burst him easily. So, do not hesitate to play Skarner against those melee champions so that you can apply CC so fast and make time to leave your ADC to apply a lot of damage during the team fights.
Champion | Win Rate % | Icon |
56% |  | |
55% |  | |
53% |  |
You may also take a look at our guide about the best Viego build League of Legends and how you can easily climb ELO in LoL by using the right build. See you at the summoner's rift!
