Lee Sin with Skarner
How to Synergize Lee Sin and Skarner
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Lee Sin Skarner Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lee Sin and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin with Skarner
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Lee Sin in LoL
The Lee Sin Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lee Sin sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Lee Sin perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lee Sin tries to synergize with Skarner, he observes a very large increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Skarner helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin is played together with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Skarner.
Moreover, when Lee Sin plays with Skarner on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Skarner does a poor job of protecting Lee Sin in teamfights.
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Is Lee Sin better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no perfect synergy for Lee Sin that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Skarner is a below average companion for Lee Sin. By playing on the same side as Lee Sin, he lowers their win rate by -2.9% to 44.4%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Lee Sin and Skarner that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Lee Sin. That means Lee Sin players don't need to be careful when lining up Skarner comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Lee Sin players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Lee Sin and Skarner together, you may not be providing your side a lot of AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Skarner ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin to work well with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Lee Sin and Skarner synergy build include Guardian Angel, Eclipse, and Profane Hydra. When Lee Sin bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Skarner than with most other typical builds. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average winrate of 44.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Lee Sin players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ingenious Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.4% winrate overall.
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