Akali with Skarner
How to Synergize Akali and Skarner
based on 336 Akali with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Akali Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Akali vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Akali with Skarner
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Understand How Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Akali Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Akali in LoL
The Akali Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Skarner helps Akali perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali is an ally to Skarner, she observes a small increase in her total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Skarner helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Skarner.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Skarner on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Akali during teamfights.
Synergies between Akali and Skarner
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Is Akali better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no perfect ally for Akali that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Skarner is a pretty good teammate for Akali. By playing on the same side as Akali, he improves their win rate by 2.9% to 51.5%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Akali and Skarner that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Skarner comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Akali and Skarner together, you will not be giving your side very much support. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali to work well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Akali and Skarner synergy build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Akali incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Skarner than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 51.5% helping carry Skarner with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Akali players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
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