Skarner with Bard
How to Synergize Skarner and Bard
based on 395 Skarner with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Bard Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Bard
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Skarner Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 Bard. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Bard helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Bard, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This change may signal that Bard supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Bard 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 with Bard.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Bard on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Skarner during team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Bard
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Bard?
There is no one best companion for Skarner that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, Bard is a very typical companion for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, he decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 48.1%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Skarner and Bard that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Skarner. That means Skarner players must be careful when lining up Bard allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by grouping Skarner and Bard together, you probably will not be granting your team enough magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Skarner and Bard synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Bard than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 48.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Skarner players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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