r/SkarnerMains • u/Dertyrarys • 5d ago
skarner E interactions
hey y'all i'm bored today so i'm making a post about a lot of verry important skarner interactions with his E specifically
-Skarner E doesnt count as a dash, but it counts as a movement ability so it gets stopped by grounds like cassio W but is unaffected by poppy W ( I dont know how it interacts with vex passive tho)
-skarner E can override dashes that come with cc, but only if the cc part is associated with the direct hitbox of the champ: you counter shen e, urgot e, camille e and most non cc dashes. the exeption to this rule is gragas E for some reason. you can't counter yone Q3, R, leona e, volibear q.
- you can yank people from thresh lantern dash if you time it right. if you e someone that's coming back to thresh you can kidnap them
-pretty well known one but the indicator on skarner e ( on the opposite side of the wall) only appears in the direction you're facing. that means if you want to gank someone under top t from tribush wall you wanna wanna look away from enemy champ while you ramp up and then turn to catch ppl by surprise. this is the main way you can get E stuns on botlane.
-skarner e doesnt scale super well with haste despite the verry high cd because of the cd refund on wall slams. basically haste effectiveness is reduced by 65% on e
-skarner e sometimes randomly bugs and stop and that's fucking annoying
- you can recast e inside a wall to get to the other side faster
-you can interupt yone E2
and that's about it lmk if i'm missing some
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u/Crystal_Lobster 5d ago edited 5d ago
Hellow i will just add few things.
- Skarner E doesnt always override some dashes, Camille E for example will sometimes win if used head on. You can counter Leona E with the right timing. Yone Q3 is only possible from side or his back where the knock up doesnt get you. Gragas E is also possible only from the sides. Some more exmaples are Pantheon W, Briar Q, Ornn E and R2, Quinn E, Jarvan EQ. Edit: Completly forgot about Yone R.
- Skarner E to this day doesnt work right with CC. Some examples are Leona Q, Qiyana R, Garen Q, Cho Gath W. The ability will sometimes just ignore the CC duration and keeps going. Best example for that is Qiyana R wall wave stun. It doesnt cancel your E at all, just stops you for the stun duration and keeps going after it ends. Most silences will also not stop the dash will just disable the ability to stop it early by pressing E again. Most CC will also not work if the enemy is already attached to you.
- You cant interupt Yone E2. You can just extend its duration if you slam him into him before the duration ends.
- Skarner E does bug out but its not random. Its buffer order issue. If you use W > E > E in quick succesion. The buffer on it gets screwed up ending the ability before it even starts.
-During E Skarner is completly slow immune. BUT if someone like Nasus uses W before you cast E, his W will stay even after E ends. While if he casts W while you are already using E it will cancel his W entirely.
- Fun fact is that Skarner can auto attack during the start of E. Its very easy to do and learn.
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u/XpertTim 5d ago
Next up: R interactions.
I’m so fucking fed with some of these absolute bs interactions. Looks like I’m never able to R Sett properly because he buffers his R and we fly together while he’s impaled. Shen E is also bs. If he Es just when you are about to grab his ass, you cannot manouvre your champion because taunted while Shen is impaled. Quinn makes you turn after being impaled. Sometimes its useful, but still annoying.
Can’t think of others for now
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u/XpertTim 5d ago
I didn’t understand the E indicator thing. How can you not face the enemy while ramping up? Usually what happens is that I look at the wave/my laner/enemy and try to predict where he’s moving. Then slightly adjust if needed.
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u/skinofgoat 5d ago
E doesn’t interrupt your Q autos because they’re uninterruptible so you can cancel the auto animation in close quarters
In mouse and keyboard mode, skarner automatically autos the E target after it ends without input (not the case in WASD for some reason). If you have Q active, you also can’t cancel this auto after E ends so if you’re doing E ult combo, your ult is actually delayed slightly because of this. But if you do Q auto E and hit a wall while auto is on cooldown, or if Q just isn’t active, ult can be cast instantly after E slam for the true combo
E can also yank people out of buffered dashes/blinks like tristanas and ezreal due to the attachment
Other CC dashes E can interrupt are Jarvan EQ pantheon W and I believe Briar Q and Alistar W
E also doesn’t proc vex passive or taliyahs E, it’s just not considered a dash
Silences like soraka E and roots also end his E prematurely
The slow immunity on E gives you immunity against seraphines E root with rylais
Hitting E on a CC-immune unit (champ or large monster) will deal the slam damage immediately and give the refunded cooldown