Rammus with Skarner
How to Synergize Rammus and Skarner
based on 46 Rammus with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rammus Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Rammus vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rammus and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Rammus with Skarner
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
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.
Rammus Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Rammus in LoL
The Rammus 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, Rammus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Skarner helps Rammus perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rammus is an ally to Skarner, he sees a measurable drop in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Skarner does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rammus is played with Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Additionally, when Rammus plays with Skarner on the same team, he usually takes less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Rammus in teamfights.
Synergies between Rammus and Skarner
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Is Rammus better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top champion pairing for Rammus that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Skarner is a terrible companion for Rammus. By locking into the same team as Rammus, he decreases their win rate by -22.6% to 28.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Rammus and Skarner that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Rammus. That means Rammus players don't need to be very careful when lining up Skarner teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Rammus and Skarner together, you will not be giving your other allies enough magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Rammus in order to pair well with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Rammus and Skarner synergy build include Thornmail, Dead Man's Plate, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Rammus incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Skarner than with most other common builds. In fact, Rammus had an average winrate of 28.3% helping carry Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Rammus players should use the Aftershock, Demolish, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 28.3% win rate overall.
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