Skarner with Jax
How to Synergize Skarner and Jax
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Skarner Jax Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Jax
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Jax
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 Jax Will Play
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
Skarner Jax Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jax as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Jax synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jax, 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 Jax. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Jax helps Skarner perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is paired with Jax, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This could indicate that Jax does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Jax on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Jax.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Jax on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Jax does a decent job of covering Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Jax
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Jax?
There is no perfect companion for Skarner that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Jax is a pretty good companion for Skarner. By locking into the same team as Skarner, he increases their win rate by 2.0% to 50.3%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Skarner and Jax that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Jax has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be cautious when finding Jax comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Skarner and Jax together, you probably will not be giving your team enough cover. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Jax ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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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 synergize with Jax during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Skarner and Jax synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Jax than with most other common builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 50.3% when playing alongside Jax with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.3% win rate overall.
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