Katarina with Skarner
How to Synergize Katarina and Skarner
based on 464 Katarina with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Skarner
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Skarner helps Katarina perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is paired with Skarner, she gets a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Skarner provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Skarner.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Skarner on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Skarner does a decent job of covering Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Skarner
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top companion for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her best ally. However, overall, Skarner is a terrible companion for Katarina. By locking into the same side as Katarina, he drops their win rate by -3.3% to 45.5%. This signals that there is a very bad bond between Katarina and Skarner that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Skarner has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Skarner comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Katarina players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Katarina and Skarner together, you probably will not be granting your side enough support. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Katarina to pair well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Katarina and Skarner synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Skarner than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 45.5% helping carry Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.5% win rate overall.
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