Skarner with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Skarner and Caitlyn
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Skarner Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Skarner Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Caitlyn helps Skarner perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is paired with Caitlyn, he observes a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Caitlyn does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Caitlyn 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 synergisticly with Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Caitlyn on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Caitlyn does a poor job of protecting Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Caitlyn
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Skarner that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Caitlyn is a below average ally for Skarner. By being on the same side as Skarner, she decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 46.4%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Skarner and Caitlyn that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Caitlyn has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players should be cautious when arranging Caitlyn teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Skarner and Caitlyn together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of magic damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Caitlyn ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Skarner to work well with Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Skarner and Caitlyn synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Skarner included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Caitlyn than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 46.4% helping carry Caitlyn with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.4% win rate overall.
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