Skarner with Irelia
How to Synergize Skarner and Irelia
based on 279 Skarner with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Skarner Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Irelia helps Skarner perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is paired with Irelia, he sees a moderate decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Irelia does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Irelia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Irelia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Irelia.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Irelia on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Irelia does a poor job of covering Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Irelia
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no top synergy for Skarner that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Irelia is a very bad companion for Skarner. By locking into the same team as Skarner, she drops their win rate by -3.1% to 45.2%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Skarner and Irelia that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Irelia comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Skarner players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Skarner and Irelia together, you may not be granting your other teammates much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to work well with Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Skarner and Irelia synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Irelia than with many other common builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 45.2% helping carry Irelia with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Skarner players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.2% win rate overall.
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