Skarner with Gnar
How to Synergize Skarner and Gnar
based on 119 Skarner with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Gnar
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 Gnar Will Play
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Skarner Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, 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 Gnar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gnar helps Skarner perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is paired with Gnar, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Gnar doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Gnar 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 alongside Gnar.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Gnar on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Gnar does a decent job of covering Skarner in team fights.
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no one best ally for Skarner that will always be his best teammate. However, Gnar is a relatively poor teammate for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, he decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 46.2%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Skarner and Gnar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players should be cautious when finding Gnar allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Skarner and Gnar together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 to pair well with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Skarner and Gnar synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Gnar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 46.2% when playing alongside Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Skarner players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Skarner and Gnar pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.2% winrate overall.
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