Skarner with Graves
How to Synergize Skarner and Graves
based on 125 Skarner with Graves pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Graves Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Graves
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Skarner Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Skarner perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Graves, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Graves 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 together with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Graves on the same team, he usually receives much less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Graves
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Graves?
There is no top companion for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Graves is a not very good teammate for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, he decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 47.2%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Skarner and Graves that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be careful when finding Graves teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Skarner players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Skarner and Graves together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to pair well with Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Skarner and Graves synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Graves than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 47.2% helping carry Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you 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 runes we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Graves with Skarner are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.