Fiddlesticks with Skarner
How to Synergize Fiddlesticks and Skarner
based on 79 Fiddlesticks with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Fiddlesticks Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Fiddlesticks vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Fiddlesticks and Skarner
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.
Fiddlesticks Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Fiddlesticks in LoL
The Fiddlesticks 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, Fiddlesticks 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 Fiddlesticks perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Fiddlesticks is paired with Skarner, he observes a sizeable uptick in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Skarner helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Fiddlesticks is played together with Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Moreover, when Fiddlesticks plays with Skarner on the same team, he on average takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Skarner does a decent job of covering Fiddlesticks during teamfights.
Synergies between Fiddlesticks and Skarner
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Is Fiddlesticks better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Fiddlesticks that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, Skarner is a terrible companion for Fiddlesticks. By playing on the same side as Fiddlesticks, he drops their win rate by -4.7% to 44.3%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Fiddlesticks and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Skarner has a much lower diffuclty than Fiddlesticks. That means Fiddlesticks players don't need to be cautious when lining up Skarner teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Fiddlesticks players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Fiddlesticks and Skarner together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Skarner teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
Other Champion Matchups Against Fiddlesticks
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Additional Information for Fiddlesticks Players
How We Calculated Our Fiddlesticks Skarner Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Fiddlesticks to synergize with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Fiddlesticks and Skarner synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Banshee's Veil, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Fiddlesticks included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Skarner than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average winrate of 44.3% when playing alongside Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Future's Market runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Fiddlesticks and Skarner pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Skarner with Fiddlesticks are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.