Brand with Skarner
How to Synergize Brand and Skarner
based on 527 Brand with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Brand vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Brand with Skarner
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Skarner helps Brand perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Brand is paired with Skarner, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Skarner provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played alongside Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Skarner on the same side, he on average takes less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Brand in teamfights.
Synergies between Brand and Skarner
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Is Brand better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top champion pairing for Brand that will always be his top ally. Yet, Skarner is a relatively poor ally for Brand. By being on the same side as Brand, he decreases their win rate by -2.8% to 48.6%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Brand and Skarner that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Skarner has a greater difficulty than Brand. That means Brand players must be cautious when arranging Skarner comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Brand players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Brand and Skarner together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough cover. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to synergize with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Brand and Skarner synergy build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Skarner than with most other common builds. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 48.6% helping carry Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Brand players should take the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
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