Skarner with Ahri
How to Synergize Skarner and Ahri
based on 379 Skarner with Ahri pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Ahri Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Ahri
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Ahri
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.
Advice to Understand How Ahri Will Play
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Skarner Ahri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ahri as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Ahri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ahri, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Skarner sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ahri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Ahri helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Ahri, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Ahri provides cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Ahri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ahri.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Ahri on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Ahri does a poor job of covering Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Ahri
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Ahri?
There is no ideal companion for Skarner that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Ahri is a good companion for Skarner. By locking into the same team as Skarner, she raises their win rate by 2.9% to 51.2%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Skarner and Ahri that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Ahri has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be careful when lining up Ahri teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, Skarner players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Skarner and Ahri together, you will not be giving your team very much sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Ahri ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Skarner in order to work well with Ahri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Skarner and Ahri synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Ahri than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 51.2% when playing alongside Ahri with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.2% winrate overall.
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