Skarner
Hardest matchups for Skarner in Jungle (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Rek'Sai, 
Rammus, 
Ivern. Easiest: 
Jayce, 
Qiyana, 
Rengar.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into SkarnerOn the pro tier list
Skarner on patch 16.22
- Jungle50.7%#29 of 74B2,199 games
- Support44.9%#63 of 77C561 games
- steady since 16.21
Skarner’s main role on patch 16.22 is Jungle: a 50.7% win rate across 2,199 Emerald games, #29 of 74 Jungle champions on the tier list (grade B), picked in 0.9% of games. Skarner is also played Support: a 44.9% win rate across 561 games, #63 of 77. Since patch 16.21, Skarner Jungle has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.5 points across 12,325 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jungle71% of its games | B | 50.2%50.3% raw ±1.2 | 6,715 | 1.0%0.2% banned | 53.2%47.7% first time |
| Support17% of its games | C | 48.7%47.9% raw ±2.5 | 1,605 | 0.2%0.2% banned | 51.7%45.9% first time |
| Top12% of its games | B | 49.7%49.4% raw ±2.9 | 1,121 | 0.2%0.2% banned | 51.5%48.0% first time |
| Mid1% of its games | too few games | 49.6%43.4% raw ±13.5 | 53 | 0.0%0.2% banned | 51.3%47.3% first time |
| Bot0% of its games | too few games | 50.0%100.0% raw ±98.0 | 1 | 0.0%0.2% banned | — |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Skarner’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Skarner, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Skarner
Lane leads and team bans
What Skarner’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Skarner than the other team does in the same games (47,210 games). The other team banned before Skarner was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Skarner was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Skarner is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- Tank
51.5%5,959 games - AD bruiser
50.7%768 games - Lethality
49.4%82 games - AP sustained
51.4%5 games - Crit
51.1%4 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Skarner does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
7,439 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Smite50.1% · 7,396 games
AftershockResolve + Inspiration · 50.6%
Shield Bash · Conditioning · Overgrowth · Magical Footwear · Cosmic InsightShards: Ability Haste · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Start: Mosstomper Seedling · 53.0%
Key items: Heartsteel → Unending Despair · 53.0%
Boots: Mercury's Treads · 52.1%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Smite50.1%7,396 games · 99% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Keystones
- Aftershock + Inspiration50.6%849 games · 11% pick rate · same players: +0.1 pts vs the usualRecommended
Grasp of the Undying + Inspiration50.6%5,462 games · 73% pick rate · the usual choice
Conqueror + Resolve46.7%348 games · 4.7% pick rate · same players: −0.7 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Minor runes with Aftershock
- Shield Bash51.0%94% take it
Font of Life54.1%4.9% take it
- Conditioning51.5%96% take it
Bone Plating51.1%3.3% take it
- Overgrowth51.2%94% take it
Revitalize53.6%4.0% take it
- Magical Footwear50.9%96% take it
- Cosmic Insight52.0%84% take it
Approach Velocity47.0%14% take it
Cash Back51.5%3.7% take it
- Ability Haste50.5%83% take it
- Attack Speed48.5%11% take it
- Adaptive Force47.2%6.9% take it
- Health Scaling50.3%89% take it
- Adaptive Force49.1%9.1% take it
- Health Scaling50.2%91% take it
- Health47.7%6.4% take it
- Tenacity and Slow Resist50.5%2.7% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Skarner’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Skarner’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Skarner does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Skarner wins 44.3%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 52.7%. That gap ranks it 22 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 67K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Skarner in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jungle | 51.1%132W 120L | 13%14% in any lane | 80% counter | −304 gold | — |
| Support | 49.7%7W 9L | 1%14% in any lane | 94% counter | +254 gold | — |
| Top | 50.2%3W 2L | 0%14% in any lane | 20% counter | −419 gold | — |
| Mid | 49.8%0W 1L | 0%14% in any lane | 100% counter | −3,558 gold | — |
How much knowing Skarner pays
Players on their Mastery band win 8.4 points more on Skarner than first-timers do: #22 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Skarner players win 52.7%: #60 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The fitted curve levels off at about 53.4%, and is half-way up by ~32K points.
SkarnerDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Skarner ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Ivern, Udyr, Nidalee.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.