Kalista with Skarner
How to Synergize Kalista and Skarner
based on 93 Kalista with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kalista Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Skarner
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Skarner helps Kalista perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kalista tries to synergize with Skarner, she gets a clear improvement in her total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Skarner supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Skarner on the same team, she often receives more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Skarner does a poor job of covering Kalista in teamfights.
Synergies between Kalista and Skarner
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top synergy for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. Yet, Skarner is a very bad teammate for Kalista. By locking into the same side as Kalista, he decreases their win rate by -4.4% to 43.0%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Kalista and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Skarner teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Kalista and Skarner together, you may not be granting your other allies very much support. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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How We Calculated Our Kalista Skarner Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kalista to work well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Kalista and Skarner synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when paired up with Skarner than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kalista had an average winrate of 43.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Skarner with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.0% winrate overall.
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