Darius with Skarner
How to Synergize Darius and Skarner
based on 378 Darius with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Darius Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Darius vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Darius with Skarner
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Skarner helps Darius perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius is an ally to Skarner, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change may signal that Skarner provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Additionally, when Darius plays with Skarner on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Darius in teamfights.
Synergies between Darius and Skarner
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Is Darius better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no one best champion pairing for Darius that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, Skarner is a decent teammate for Darius. By being on the same team as Darius, he improves their win rate by 1.9% to 51.1%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Darius and Skarner that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Skarner has a greater difficulty than Darius. That means Darius players must be careful when enlisting Skarner allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Darius and Skarner together, you probably will not be giving your team much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 Darius in order to pair well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Darius and Skarner synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Darius used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Skarner than with most other common builds. In fact, Darius had an average win rate of 51.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Skarner with Darius are given for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.