Kindred with Skarner
How to Synergize Kindred and Skarner
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Kindred Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Kindred vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kindred and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Kindred with Skarner
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Kindred in LoL
The Kindred Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kindred sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Kindred perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kindred tries to synergize with Skarner, they gets a big jump in their complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Skarner supports by providing protection for them to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kindred is played alongside Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Skarner.
Moreover, when Kindred plays with Skarner on the same side, they on average receives less damage than when they fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Skarner does a decent job of covering Kindred in team fights.
Synergies between Kindred and Skarner
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Is Kindred better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no perfect companion for Kindred that will 100% of the time be their top synergy. Yet, overall, Skarner is a terrible companion for Kindred. By locking into the same team as Kindred, he lowers their win rate by -4.3% to 44.0%. This signals that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Kindred and Skarner that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Skarner has a greater difficulty than Kindred. That means you need to be very careful when finding Skarner teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Kindred and Skarner together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kindred to pair well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Kindred and Skarner synergy build include Wit's End, Terminus, and The Collector. When Kindred bought at least these three great items in their build, they performed significantly better when fighting alongside Skarner than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kindred boasted an average win rate of 44.0% helping carry Skarner with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Kindred players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Kindred and Skarner pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.0% winrate overall.
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