Skarner with Annie
How to Synergize Skarner and Annie
based on 213 Skarner with Annie pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Annie Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Annie
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Annie
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 Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Skarner Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 Annie. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Annie helps Skarner perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Annie, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Annie helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Annie on the same team, 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 Annie.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Annie on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Annie does a decent job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Annie?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Annie is a decent ally for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, she raises their win rate by 1.0% to 49.3%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Skarner and Annie that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Annie has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players need to be cautious when finding Annie allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Skarner and Annie together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Annie teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to work well with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Skarner and Annie synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Annie than with many other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 49.3% helping carry Annie with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating 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 combinations players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
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