Skarner·Jungle Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Skarner Jungle build, you should take Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Aftershock as your keystone, followed by Shield Bash, Conditioning and Overgrowth in the primary tree, as well as Magical Footwear and Cosmic Insight 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 Sunfire Aegis. For your last 3 items, you should build Kaenic Rookern, Jak'Sho, The Protean and finish with Iceborn Gauntlet. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 55.8% winrate over 1 652 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Phase Rush as your keystone, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity and Waterwalking in the primary tree, and Conditioning with Overgrowth in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Heartsteel as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Sunfire Aegis as a third item. You want to finish the build with Kaenic Rookern, Thornmail and Jak'Sho, The Protean. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 57.6% win rate across 538 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Skarner Jungle build in the current patch, try Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand as your primary rune tree, and Conditioning with Overgrowth as your secondary tree. Use Ability Haste, Health Scaling and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Heartsteel as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Sunfire Aegis as third item. The last 3 options are Kaenic Rookern, Jak'Sho, The Protean and Iceborn Gauntlet. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 59.5% win rate over 200 matches played.

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.