Skarner with Brand
How to Synergize Skarner and Brand
based on 527 Skarner with Brand pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Brand Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Brand
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Skarner Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Brand helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Brand, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This may signal that Brand provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Brand.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Brand on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Brand does a poor job of covering Skarner during team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Brand
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Brand?
There is no ideal synergy for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Brand is a very typical ally for Skarner. By locking into the same team as Skarner, he increases their win rate by 0.3% to 48.6%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Skarner and Brand that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Brand has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be very careful when lining up Brand comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Skarner players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Skarner and Brand together, you probably will not be providing your team very much engage potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Brand ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Skarner and Brand synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Skarner included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Brand than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 48.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should use 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 Skarner and Brand pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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