Lucian with Skarner
How to Synergize Lucian and Skarner
based on 744 Lucian with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lucian Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Lucian vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Skarner
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian sees a very large drop in his 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 Lucian perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lucian is paired with Skarner, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Skarner helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Moreover, when Lucian plays with Skarner on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Skarner does a decent job of covering Lucian during team fights.
Synergies between Lucian and Skarner
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no ideal synergy for Lucian that will always be his best teammate. Yet, Skarner is a very typical ally for Lucian. By playing on the same team as Lucian, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 48.8%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Lucian and Skarner that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Lucian. That means Lucian players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Skarner teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Lucian players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Lucian and Skarner together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Skarner ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lucian to pair well with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Lucian and Skarner synergy build include Rapid Firecannon, Stormrazor, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Lucian incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Skarner than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Lucian boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when playing alongside Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Lucian players should use the Press the Attack, 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 that we analyzed for Lucian and Skarner pairings, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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