Skarner with Akshan
How to Synergize Skarner and Akshan
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Skarner Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Akshan
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 Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Skarner Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akshan helps Skarner perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Akshan, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Akshan does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Akshan 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 alongside Akshan.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Akshan on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Akshan does a poor job of covering Skarner during teamfights.
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no top companion for Skarner that will always be his top ally. However, Akshan is a very bad ally for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, they drops their win rate by -4.1% to 44.2%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Skarner and Akshan that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Akshan allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Skarner players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by aligning Skarner and Akshan together, you may not be providing your side enough AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Akshan ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 truly master Skarner to pair well with Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Skarner and Akshan synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Akshan than with most other typical builds. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 44.2% helping carry Akshan with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Skarner players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.2% win rate overall.
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