Skarner with Hecarim
How to Synergize Skarner and Hecarim
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Skarner Hecarim Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Hecarim
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 Hecarim Will Play
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Skarner Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Hecarim helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Hecarim, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Hecarim helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Hecarim on the same side, 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 with Hecarim.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Hecarim on the same side, he usually receives less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Hecarim does a decent job of protecting Skarner during team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Hecarim
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Hecarim is a pretty good ally for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, he improves their win rate by 1.7% to 50.0%. This proves that there is pretty good synergy between Skarner and Hecarim that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Hecarim has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players should be very careful when lining up Hecarim allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Skarner and Hecarim together, you will not be providing your other allies very much support. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Hecarim ally, you should focus on increasing your 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 learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to pair well with Hecarim during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Skarner and Hecarim synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Hecarim than with many other typical builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Hecarim with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 players picked for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Hecarim with Skarner are given for all ranked divisions. To filter the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.