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Skarner Build Guides, Runes, Items, and Abilities - Patch 26.2

Skarner The Primordial Sovereign

Find the best Skarner build guides for League of Legends 2026, Season 1 Patch 26.2. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Skarner build for the 2026, Season 1 meta. Learn more about Skarner's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!

2026, Season 1 Guides // Patch 26.2
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LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

Skarner Support

Guide by Kizzer updated January 23, 2026
New Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

Skarner Jungle Guide Season 26 For Demacia (English Version)

Guide by MiniBlue updated January 23, 2026
  • In-depth
New Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

Guía Skarner Jungla Temporada 26 Por Demacia (Edición Español)

Guide by MiniBlue updated January 23, 2026
  • In-depth
2026, Season 1 Guides // Patch 26.1
New Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

[26.01] Master Skarner Jungle Guide [WIP]

Guide by Rebocas updated January 17, 2026
2026, Season 1 Builds // Patch 26.1
Rating Pending
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

Crit Skarner

Build by Sir_PIzza updated January 10, 2026
  • Off-Meta
2025, Season 3 Guides
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LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

[25.17] SKARNER TOP - RANK 1 SKARNER

Guide by Houcs updated August 27, 2025
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2025, Season 3 Builds
Rating Pending
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

Skarner Guide

Build by Skarner Cientista updated December 4, 2025
Rating Pending
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

Skarner crit

Build by Lepont updated November 5, 2025
  • Off-Meta
Rating Pending
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

skarner

Build by Mr.Miojo updated November 7, 2025
Rating Pending
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

Skandal et Grosse Mandale (FR)

Build by MimicOffMeta updated November 5, 2025
  • Off-Meta
2025, Season 2 Guides
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LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

Skarner: The Jungling Vanguard (25.16)

Guide by sp00fz updated August 17, 2025
  • In-depth
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LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

=♥= Vanguard of Ixtal =♥= | Skarner Support (Read Notes!)

Guide by DamselOfDistress updated July 4, 2025
  • Off-Meta
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LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

Head Bash Skarner | Toplane | Season 15| Casual guide | 4mil points OTP |

Guide by Crystal Lobster updated June 19, 2025
2025, Season 2 Builds
Rating Pending
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

Forgotten Skarner Guide

Build by MyCrystalSkorpion updated June 23, 2025
Rating Pending
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

Skarner Jesuscirraptor JG Full Attack Speed

Build by Jesuscirraptor updated June 14, 2025
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2025, Season 1 Guides
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LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

[25.S1.5] SKARNER JUNGLE - (Skarner OTP)

Guide by Houcs updated March 6, 2025
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LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

UPDATE 25.S1.2 Challenger and #1 Skarner World Jungle Guide (lolBlender)

Guide by lolBlender updated February 16, 2025
2025, Season 1 Builds
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LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

ANNOYING SKARNER

Build by TheSaltyShaker updated January 27, 2025
  • Off-Meta
Season 14 Guides
Rating Pending
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

[14.17] Silvano's Skarner Support

Guide by Mr_kodeo updated December 4, 2024
  • Off-Meta
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LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide
LoL Champion Skarner Build Guide

SKARNER CLASSIC S14(.23) - Thxnder

Guide by KimeraBuilds04 updated December 9, 2024
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Skarner Build & Runes

If you're looking for the best rune build for Skarner we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Skarner, as determined by calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Skarner this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 26.2. However, if you are a new Skarner player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Skarner!

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Patch 16.1: 6,934 matches scanned * Each section of the build is rated independently of the others

Skarner's Runes

Skarner's Best Runes 47%

Win Rate 73% Pickrate

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Resolve
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Inspiration
LoL Path: Inspiration
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Second Best

Skarner's 2nd Best Runes 43%

Win Rate 13% Pickrate

Precision
LoL Path: Precision
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Resolve
LoL Path: Resolve
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Third Best

Skarner's 3rd Best Runes 45%

Win Rate 5% Pickrate

Precision
LoL Path: Precision
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Inspiration
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Skarner's Summoner Spells

Skarner's Best Summoner Spells 49%

Win Rate 49% Pickrate

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Second Best

Skarner's 2nd Best Summoner Spells 49%

Win Rate 37% Pickrate

Flash Mosstomper Smite

Third Best

Skarner's 3rd Best Summoner Spells 51%

Win Rate 13% Pickrate

Flash Scorchclaw Smite

Skarner's Starters

Skarner's Best Starter Items 48%

Win Rate 31% Pickrate

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Second Best

Skarner's 2nd Best Starter Items 49%

Win Rate 23% Pickrate

Stealth Ward Health Potion

Third Best

Skarner's 3rd Best Starter Items 51%

Win Rate 12% Pickrate

Stealth Ward

Skarner's Core Items

Skarner's Best Core Items 56%

Win Rate 13% Pickrate

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Patch 16.1: 6,934 matches scanned * Each section of the build is rated independently of the others

Skarner's Runes

Skarner's Best Runes 47%

Win Rate 38% Pickrate

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Domination
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Inspiration
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Skarner's 2nd Best Runes 45%

Win Rate 18% Pickrate

Resolve
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Skarner's 3rd Best Runes 52%

Win Rate 12% Pickrate

Sorcery
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Domination
LoL Path: Domination
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Skarner's Summoner Spells

Skarner's Best Summoner Spells 45%

Win Rate 56% Pickrate

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Second Best

Skarner's 2nd Best Summoner Spells 45%

Win Rate 29% Pickrate

Flash Heal

Third Best

Skarner's 3rd Best Summoner Spells 39%

Win Rate 15% Pickrate

Exhaust Flash

Skarner's Starters

Skarner's Best Starter Items 45%

Win Rate 64% Pickrate

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Skarner's Core Items

Skarner's Best Core Items 50%

Win Rate 10% Pickrate

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Patch 16.1: 6,934 matches scanned * Each section of the build is rated independently of the others

Skarner's Runes

Skarner's Best Runes 45%

Win Rate 41% Pickrate

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Resolve
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Sorcery
LoL Path: Sorcery
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Skarner's 2nd Best Runes 44%

Win Rate 28% Pickrate

Resolve
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Inspiration
LoL Path: Inspiration
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Skarner's 3rd Best Runes 44%

Win Rate 8% Pickrate

Resolve
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Precision
LoL Path: Precision
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Skarner's Summoner Spells

Skarner's Best Summoner Spells 45%

Win Rate 67% Pickrate

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Second Best

Skarner's 2nd Best Summoner Spells 51%

Win Rate 22% Pickrate

Flash Ignite

Third Best

Skarner's 3rd Best Summoner Spells 54%

Win Rate 4% Pickrate

Teleport Ignite

Skarner's Starters

Skarner's Best Starter Items 44%

Win Rate 55% Pickrate

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Skarner's Core Items

Skarner's Best Core Items 25%

Win Rate 3% Pickrate

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Skarner Counters

Learn Skarner's counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Skarner guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!


This counter data is for Skarner JUNGLE in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Skarner. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.

Skarner Skins

Skarner's Abilities

Skarner's Threads of Vibration
Threads of Vibration Skarner's Passive Skarner's Passive
Self
Skarner's Passive
Skarner's Passive
Skarner’s attacks, Shattered Earth, Upheaval and Impale apply Quaking for 4 seconds. At 3 stacks of Quaking, enemies take 5-9% of their maximum health as magic damage over its duration.
Q
Skarner's Shattered Earth
Shattered Earth Skarner's Q Ability
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8 / 6.75 / 5.5 / 4.25 / 3
Skarner rips a boulder from the ground, empowering his next 3 attacks with 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% attack speed and dealing 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 (+0.9 per bonus attack damage) (+3% of his bonus health) physical damage to surrounding enemies. His final attack will deal an additional 9% of each target’s max health as additional bonus physical damage and slows affected foes by 40% for 1.25 seconds.

Recast: Skarner ends Shattered Earth and throws his boulder, dealing 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 (+0.9 per bonus attack damage) (+3% of his bonus health) (+8% of the target's maximum health) physical damage, and additionally slowing the first enemy hit and any other surrounding enemies by 40% for 1 second.
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Skarner's Seismic Bastion
Seismic Bastion Skarner's W Ability
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Skarner gains a shield equal to 8% of his maximum health for 2.5 seconds and triggers an earthquake that deals 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 / 130 (+80% of ability power) magic damage and slows nearby enemies by 20% for 1 second.
E
Skarner's Ixtal's Impact
Ixtal's Impact Skarner's E Ability
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Skarner charges forward, steering toward the chosen direction and ignoring terrain. If he runs into a champion or large monster, Skarner drags them along for the rest of his charge.

Colliding into a wall with an enemy in tow deals 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 (+1.2 per bonus attack damage) (+6% of his maximum health) physical damage to the enemy and stuns them for 1 second.

Skarner can Recast this ability to end his charge early. Successful wall collisions reduce this ability's cooldown by 35%.
R
Skarner's Impale
Impale Skarner's Ultimate (R) Ability
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120 / 105 / 90 / 90 / 90
Skarner's tails lash forward, dealing 150 / 250 / 350 (+100% of ability power) magic damage and suppressing the first 3 champions he hits for 1.5 seconds. Those hit are dragged along by Skarner for the duration of this ability.

If Skarner hits at least one champion he gains 40% movement speed for 1.5 seconds.

If Shattered Earth is active, Skarner will cast Upheaval first.

Questions About Skarner

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So yesterday I posted my first build but didnt see it got put in the builds or such, so I was wondering can any of you help? I also noticed by not getting any views...

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Worst Champion Ever?

I was always curious who people thought was the worst lol champion. Personally I thought Skarner, but I was curious what everyone else thought. I started to think that Azir was the worst, but Skarner is still the worst in my books.

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Is hybrid Skar a thing?

Is hybrid Skarner viable? I was thinking about: Hextech-Guinosso-Nashor-Liandry-Randuin/Spirit-Sorc Boots and maxing Q, then equal W+E.

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What is your opinion on the new skarner?

what do you guys think about the new skarner?

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Trundle or Skarner(junglee)

Who sould I buy Trundle or Skarner? Who is better, more fun to play, harder or easier... And if you think I sould buy some ohter champ(looking only for jungler sugestions) then please comment.

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Skarner and Thresh Lantern

If a Skarner and Thresh are on the same team, can Skarner use his ultimate on an enemy, and then click Thresh's lantern to move?

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Is Skarner still viable?

I've been wondering lately whether jungle skarner is viable or not, I think he is but I'm not sure whether thats just because the times I played him recently the enemy team was worse than me.

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