Skarner·Mid Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Skarner Mid build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, followed by Shield Bash, Conditioning and Overgrowth in the primary tree, as well as Approach Velocity and Magical Footwear in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Ability Haste in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Heartsteel as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Winter's Approach. For your last 3 items, you should build Unending Despair, Thornmail and finish with Liandry's Torment. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 56.5% winrate over 92 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Skarner Mid build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Shield Bash, Conditioning and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Approach Velocity with Magical Footwear in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Ability Haste in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Hollow Radiance, which you should build first, followed by Mercury's Treads as your second item and Winter's Approach as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Unending Despair, Randuin's Omen and Jak'Sho, The Protean. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 50.0% win rate over 60 matches.

Situational Skarner Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Skarner build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.