Skarner with Hwei
How to Synergize Skarner and Hwei
based on 625 Skarner with Hwei pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Hwei Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Hwei
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Hwei
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 Hwei Will Play
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
Skarner Hwei Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hwei as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Hwei synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hwei, 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 Hwei. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Hwei helps Skarner perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is an ally to Hwei, he observes a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Hwei provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Hwei on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Hwei.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Hwei on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Hwei does a poor job of covering Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Hwei
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Hwei?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Skarner that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Hwei is a very bad teammate for Skarner. By playing on the same side as Skarner, they decreases their win rate by -6.1% to 42.2%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Skarner and Hwei that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Hwei has a much greater difficulty compared to Skarner. That means Skarner players should be careful when lining up Hwei allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, Skarner players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Skarner and Hwei together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of engage potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Hwei ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 truly master Skarner in order to work well with Hwei during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Skarner and Hwei 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 did significantly better as an ally of Hwei than with many other common item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 42.2% helping carry Hwei with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 42.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Hwei with Skarner are presented for every ranked division. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.