Skarner with Darius
How to Synergize Skarner and Darius
based on 378 Skarner with Darius pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Darius Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Darius
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Skarner Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 Darius. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Darius helps Skarner perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Darius, he gets a measurable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Darius does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Darius on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Darius. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Darius.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Darius on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Darius does a decent job of protecting Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Darius
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Darius?
There is no perfect companion for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, Darius is a decent companion for Skarner. By playing on the same side as Skarner, he improves their win rate by 2.8% to 51.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Skarner and Darius that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Darius has a much lower diffuclty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be cautious when finding Darius teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Skarner and Darius together, you may not be providing your other teammates much magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Darius ally, you need to 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 truly master Skarner in order to work well with Darius during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Skarner and Darius synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Darius than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 51.1% when playing alongside Darius with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.1% win rate overall.
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