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The best Skarner build in this patch includes Heartsteel, Thornmail, and Unending Despair. This build has a 60.00% win rate and is picked 4.73% of the time.
Skarner's core items are Heartsteel, Thornmail, and Unending Despair. These items provide the best stats and synergies for Skarner's kit and playstyle in League of Legends.
Mercury's Treads are the best boots for Skarner. These boots provide optimal mobility and stats for Skarner's playstyle. They are included in 4.7% of Skarner builds.
Oracle Lens is the best trinket for Skarner. This trinket provides optimal vision control and map awareness. Using Oracle Lens helps Skarner maintain vision around objectives and track enemy movements.
Yes, alternative Skarner builds include options like Heartsteel, Spirit Visage, and Unending Despair. Different builds can be more effective depending on team composition and matchups.
MetaBot sources its build data for Skarner directly from the Riot Games API, provided to developers for ingesting game data from League of Legends. MetaBot analyzes hundreds of thousands of matches daily to help it determine build statistics.
MetaBot filters out any matches that don't use complete builds for Skarner. From there, we aggregate the Skarner builds data and use that to determine which builds are finding the most success in the current League of Legends meta. High performing builds with low confidence intervals resulting from thin data are dropped from our final results.
This Skarner build focuses on a balanced mix of offense and defense. Build the core items first for your power spike, then adapt with situational items based on enemy team composition.
The core items for this Skarner build are Heartsteel, Thornmail and Unending Despair. This item combination achieves a 60.0% win rate across 55 matches analyzed.
At full build, Skarner gains a total of 2200 Health, 200 Armor, 70 Magic Resist, giving a strong power profile for a balanced playstyle.
The most popular starting items for Skarner are Mosstomper Seedling, Health Potion, Stealth Ward with a 66.7% win rate and 16.4% pick rate.
Combined statistics from all items in this Skarner build.
This Skarner durable frontliner build is optimized for players looking to maximize their impact in League of Legends. With a 60.0% win rate across 55 matches, this build has proven highly effective in the current meta. The build's key strengths include strong physical damage mitigation, substantial health pool for survivability. This tanky Skarner build works best when your team lacks frontline presence. You can absorb damage and create opportunities for your carries to deal damage. The armor in this build makes it effective against AD-heavy enemy compositions with champions like assassins or marksmen. With a total gold cost of 14,900, this Skarner build scales into the late game. Focus on farming efficiently and reaching your Heartsteel, Thornmail, Unending Despair power spike before taking major fights. For optimal results with this Skarner build, focus on proper itemization timing, positioning in teamfights, and adapting your situational items based on the specific challenges each game presents.
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The patch 26.17 Skarner top build uses Mercury's Treads, Heartsteel, Thornmail, Unending Despair, Spirit Visage, Randuin's Omen, Oracle Lens. This Skarner build has a 4.73% pick rate and a 60% win rate in LoL patch 26.17. Alternatively, check out some of the other ranked Skarner build choices below.