Jungle · 94 games · NA

Skarner

Jungle · 79% of games

Strongest when games end at 25–30 minutes (53%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−487 gold).

Win rate: 48.9%; ±10.1 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #37 of 64
Pick rate: 1.5%; ban 0.3%
Games: 94; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Skarner jungle wins 48.9% of 94 ranked games in NA, rank 37 of 64 jungle champions (tier C). Most players finish Heartsteel first, at about 10:12.

The build at a glance

What most Skarner players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Heartsteel 10:20 · 97% · 86 games

Boots

Plated Steelcaps 14:18 · 55% of games

Item 2

Unending Despair 18:49 · 81% · 57 games

Item 3

Spirit Visage 23:32 · 57% · 12 games

Item 4 · late game

Jak'Sho, The Protean 28:06 · 4 of 16 games

Runes

Grasp of the Undying · Resolve + Inspiration 67% of games · 48% wins All runes →

Start

Scorchclaw Pup 35% of games · 58% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Smite 100% of games · 49% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Shattered Earth / Upheaval first 98% of games · 49% wins Skill orders →

When Skarner wins

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′48% wins33% of games · 31

Lasts 25′ or more50% wins64% of games · 60

Enemy junglers

No clear counters yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Skarner games

First tower: 76% against 27%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First tower 27% 76% +49

First Baron 32% 79% +48

First blood 35% 64% +30

Rift Herald 38% 66% +28

First dragon 38% 61% +23

First Voidgrubs 45% 53% +9

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Skarner plays

Fewer multikills, fewer solo kills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average jungler. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

Fewer multikills a game0.31 against 0.83 · −63%

Fewer solo kills a game0.4 against 1.1 · −60%

Less damage to towers1546 against 2436 · −37%

More assists a game10.0 against 7.6 · +31%

Less time spent dead4.6s against 5.6s a minute · −18%

About average: kill participation.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~10:12

Item 2done ~18:36

Item 3done ~24:54

Item 4done ~28:18

Most common full builds

Heartsteel › Unending Despair › Plated Steelcaps › Spirit Visage 66.7%9 games

Heartsteel › Unending Despair › Plated Steelcaps › Randuin's Omen 60.0%5 games

Heartsteel › Plated Steelcaps › Unending Despair › Jak'Sho, The Protean 50.0%4 games

Heartsteel › Plated Steelcaps › Sterak's Gage › Unending Despair 100.0%3 games

Heartsteel › Unending Despair › Plated Steelcaps › Spirit Visage › Jak'Sho, The Protean 66.7%3 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Spirit Visage 78%9

Unending Despair 52%27

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Scorchclaw Pup57.6%33

Scorchclaw Pup + Health Potion55.0%20

Mosstomper Seedling44.4%18

Boots

Plated Steelcaps ~14:1844.2%52

Mercury's Treads ~14:4856.7%30

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite48.9%94

Skills

Max

E48.9%92

Max

W0.0%1

Start

E47.7%86

Start

W66.7%6

Dies less than most junglers

Before 14 minutes Skarner dies 1.5 times a game (average 1.9). 69% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 72% for the average jungler. 13% are fair 1-v-1s.

1.5deaths per game before 14′less than average (1.9)

69%involve the enemy junglerless than average (72%)

87%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (88%)

35%with no teammate nearless than average (39%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Enemy jungler: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Skarner dies before 14 minutes

Killed by the enemy jungler in your half of bot lane, collapsed on in their half of bot lane

Enemy jungler: 17% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 36% in their half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 32% in their half of top lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average jungler

What kills Skarner

Kind of death

Skarner Average

Enemy jungler 69% (avg 72%)Collapse 17% (avg 16%)1-v-1 13% (avg 12%)

Who gets the kill

Skarner Average

Bot laner 16% (avg 15%)Jungler 34% (avg 37%)Support 10% (avg 8%)Mid laner 27% (avg 27%)Top laner 13% (avg 12%)

Gank clock

Enemy jungler fights peak at 3:00 and 6:00–10:00, then every minute

Skarner Peak Average jungler

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Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Skarner; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Skarner wins fights

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in the bot-side river

Before 14 minutes: 3.4 kills per death in their half of top lane against 0.7 in the bot-side river. Overall 1.5 kills per death.

Their half of bot lane 2.0 K/D 45 / 23

Your half of bot lane 1.0 K/D 27 / 26

The bot-side river 0.7 K/D 16 / 22

Their half of mid 2.5 K/D 27 / 11

Their half of top lane 3.4 K/D 27 / 8

Your half of mid 2.0 K/D 18 / 9

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Skarner wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsWorth knowingNear 71% of their team's dragon takes (average jungler 70%). The team wins 67% when Skarner is there and 78% when not.

Skarner

What most Skarner players run

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

No clear counters yet

First tower: 76% against 27%

Fewer multikills, fewer solo kills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard matchup yet

No clearly easy matchup yet

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Skarner's games

Dies less than most junglers

Killed by the enemy jungler in your half of bot lane, collapsed on in their half of bot lane

What kills Skarner

Enemy jungler fights peak at 3:00 and 6:00–10:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in the bot-side river

Wins fights in their jungle, loses them in your jungle

Where fights happen