Skarner with Blitzcrank
How to Synergize Skarner and Blitzcrank
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Skarner Blitzcrank Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Blitzcrank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Blitzcrank
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 Blitzcrank Will Play
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Skarner Blitzcrank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Blitzcrank as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Blitzcrank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Blitzcrank, 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 Blitzcrank. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Blitzcrank helps Skarner perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is paired with Blitzcrank, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Blitzcrank helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Blitzcrank 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 Blitzcrank.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Blitzcrank on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Blitzcrank does a decent job of protecting Skarner during team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Blitzcrank
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Blitzcrank?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Skarner that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Blitzcrank is a top-tier ally for Skarner. By locking into the same team as Skarner, he improves their win rate by 3.3% to 51.6%. This shows that there is an important strategic relationship between Skarner and Blitzcrank that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Blitzcrank has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be careful when finding Blitzcrank comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Skarner players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Skarner and Blitzcrank together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Blitzcrank ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to work well with Blitzcrank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Skarner and Blitzcrank synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Blitzcrank than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 51.6% helping carry Blitzcrank with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating 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 sets players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Blitzcrank with Skarner are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.