Skarner with Gragas
How to Synergize Skarner and Gragas
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Skarner Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Skarner Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gragas helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is an ally to Gragas, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Gragas does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Gragas on the same team, 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 Gragas.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Gragas on the same side, he typically receives less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Gragas does a decent job of covering Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Gragas
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no perfect ally for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Gragas is a below average ally for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, he drops their win rate by -2.3% to 46.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Skarner and Gragas that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Gragas allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by grouping Skarner and Gragas together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Skarner to work well with Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Skarner and Gragas synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Gragas than with most other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 46.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Skarner players should use 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 builds that we analyzed for Skarner and Gragas pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.0% win rate overall.
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