Gragas with Skarner
How to Synergize Gragas and Skarner
based on 137 Gragas with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Skarner
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Skarner helps Gragas perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is an ally to Skarner, he sees a small increase in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Skarner supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Skarner on the same side, he usually takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Gragas in team fights.
Synergies between Gragas and Skarner
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Gragas that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Skarner is a not very good companion for Gragas. By locking into the same side as Gragas, he drops their win rate by -1.9% to 46.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Gragas and Skarner that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be very careful when lining up Skarner comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by aligning Gragas and Skarner together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Skarner teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to work well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Gragas and Skarner synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Cryptbloom. When Gragas bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Skarner than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 46.0% helping carry Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Gragas and Skarner pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.0% win rate overall.
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