Skilled Sniper

• Skilled Sniper is a gamble: if it works, keep it; otherwise, remove it for a prismatic augment.³
• Skilled Sniper can be a poor choice on Ezreal because enough haste can already refund his Q, especially when enemies are closer.⁴

• Damage to a shield may not trigger Skilled Sniper because it does not damage the champion.⁵
• Skilled Sniper can work for two skillshots in a row, then fail on the third until after a long wait; this can happen on a training dummy without either champion changing position.⁶

• Miss Fortune's Q works with Skilled Sniper, but her E does not receive the cooldown reduction.⁷⁸⁹
• Lux's E does not receive the cooldown reduction.¹⁰¹¹⁹
• Zed's Q does not reset when it hits from beyond 700 units away.¹²
• Skilled Sniper does not work with periodic abilities.¹³¹⁴
• Elise's stun does not work with Skilled Sniper.¹⁵
• Infernal Soul can stop Skilled Sniper from working with Miss Fortune's E.¹⁶
• Skilled Sniper does not work with Mel's Q.¹⁷
• Skilled Sniper can work inconsistently with Ashe's W: it can work on repeated casts, but may also fail to activate.¹⁸¹¹

• In the eight-teams-of-two format, Miss Fortune's E reduced to a 3-second cooldown when an enemy took damage; in the six-teams-of-three format, it did not receive a cooldown reduction.⁸

Earlier formats

Since patch 14.17, Skilled Sniper no longer resets the cooldown of ultimates from Ultimate Roulette.¹⁹ 8x2 duos

Since patch 14.14, Lee Sin's Sonic Wave (Q1) is affected by Skilled Sniper.²⁰ 8x2 duos

• Lee Sin's E works with Skilled Sniper, but his W does not.²¹ 8x2 duos
• Nami's E counted as her own spell and damage for Skilled Sniper; each of its three bubbles counted as a separate instance for Puppeteer.²² 8x2 duos
• Orianna's W reset on hit with Skilled Sniper.²³ 8x2 duos
• Twitch's E did not work with Skilled Sniper.²⁴ 8x2 duos
• A Pyromancer's build with burn effects and True Shot can make Heimerdinger or Brand fire abilities rapidly with Skilled Sniper.²⁵ 8x2 duos
• Good positioning can make Skilled Sniper work well.²⁶ 8x2 duos
• Skilled Sniper can reset Morgana's Q repeatedly on a training dummy, but the reset may sometimes fail while she stands still.²⁷ 8x2 duos
• Skilled Sniper can provide repeated resets for keeping enemies behind a wall with Taliyah's abilities.²⁸ 8x2 duos
• Skilled Sniper can fail in Mayhem.²⁹ 8x2 duos
• Skilled Sniper is called useless by some, while it is considered niche but good when paired or built around.³⁰²⁵³¹ 8x2 duos
• Skilled Sniper can work with a champion, though it did not lead to first place in those games.³² 8x2 duos
• Garen cannot get Skilled Sniper, while Mundo can.³³ 8x2 duos
• Playing Jayce with Skilled Sniper and ability haste on E can make repeated high-damage nukes between gates fun.³⁴ 8x2 duos
• Skilled Sniper Anivia can place around six walls.³⁵ 8x2 duos