Kai'Sa with Skarner
How to Synergize Kai'Sa and Skarner
based on 529 Kai'Sa with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kai'Sa Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kai'Sa and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa with Skarner
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Kai'Sa in LoL
The Kai'Sa 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, Kai'Sa sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Skarner helps Kai'Sa perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kai'Sa tries to synergize with Skarner, she gets a clear improvement in her total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Skarner supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played together with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Moreover, when Kai'Sa plays with Skarner on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Skarner does a poor job of protecting Kai'Sa during teamfights.
Synergies between Kai'Sa and Skarner
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Is Kai'Sa better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no one best champion pairing for Kai'Sa that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, Skarner is a very typical teammate for Kai'Sa. By being on the same side as Kai'Sa, he decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 45.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Kai'Sa and Skarner that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Kai'Sa. That means Kai'Sa players don't need to be careful when arranging Skarner allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Kai'Sa players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Kai'Sa and Skarner together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of support. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Skarner ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Additional Information for Kai'Sa Players
How We Calculated Our Kai'Sa Skarner Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to work well with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Kai'Sa and Skarner synergy build consist of Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Skarner than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 45.9% when playing alongside Skarner with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Kai'Sa and Skarner pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.9% winrate overall.
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