Skarner with Akali
How to Synergize Skarner and Akali
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Skarner Akali Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Akali
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Akali
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 Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Skarner Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, 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 Akali. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Akali helps Skarner perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Akali, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Akali does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akali.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Akali on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Akali does a decent job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Akali
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Akali?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Skarner that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Akali is a not very good ally for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, she decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 46.1%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Skarner and Akali that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players must be very careful when lining up Akali teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, Skarner players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Skarner and Akali together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much utility. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Akali ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to work well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Skarner and Akali synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Skarner used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Akali than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 46.1% when playing alongside Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Skarner players 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 combinations players used for Skarner and Akali pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.1% win rate overall.
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