Skarner with Elise
How to Synergize Skarner and Elise
based on 15 Skarner with Elise pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Elise Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Elise
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Elise
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 Elise Will Play
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
Skarner Elise Synergy Stats
How to Play with Elise as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Elise synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Elise, 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 Elise. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Elise helps Skarner perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Elise, he gets a large drop in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Elise does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Elise on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Elise.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Elise on the same side, he often receives much less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Elise does a decent job of covering Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Elise
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Elise?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Elise is a below average companion for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, she drops their win rate by -1.6% to 46.7%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Skarner and Elise that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Elise has a much greater difficulty compared to Skarner. That means Skarner players must be cautious when enlisting Elise comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Skarner and Elise together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Elise ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 in order to synergize with Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Skarner and Elise synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Elise than with many other typical builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 46.7% helping carry Elise with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Skarner players should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Elise with Skarner are displayed for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.