Illaoi with Skarner
How to Synergize Illaoi and Skarner
based on 199 Illaoi with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Skarner Counter Build
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Core Illaoi Items
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Skarner
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her 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 Illaoi perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi is paired with Skarner, she sees a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This may signal that Skarner does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played alongside Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Skarner on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Illaoi in teamfights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Skarner
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Illaoi that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, overall, Skarner is a very typical ally for Illaoi. By playing on the same side as Illaoi, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 49.2%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Illaoi and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Skarner has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players must be careful when enlisting Skarner comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Illaoi and Skarner together, you will not be providing your other allies much magic damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Skarner ally, you should focus on increasing your 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
To truly master Illaoi to pair well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Illaoi and Skarner synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Skarner than with many other common item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when playing alongside Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Illaoi players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Skarner with Illaoi are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.