Alistar with Skarner
How to Synergize Alistar and Skarner
based on 176 Alistar with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Skarner Counter Build
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Core Alistar Items
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Skarner
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Skarner helps Alistar perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is paired with Skarner, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Skarner doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Skarner.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Skarner on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Alistar during team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Skarner
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no one best synergy for Alistar that will always be his best teammate. However, Skarner is a not very good ally for Alistar. By playing on the same side as Alistar, he decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 48.3%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Alistar and Skarner that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be cautious when finding Skarner comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Alistar players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by pairing Alistar and Skarner together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Skarner teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to synergize with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Alistar and Skarner synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Frozen Heart. When Alistar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Skarner than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 48.3% helping carry Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Alistar players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Alistar and Skarner pairings, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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