Skarner with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Skarner and Kai'Sa
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Skarner Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Skarner Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kai'Sa helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Kai'Sa, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Kai'Sa does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Kai'Sa on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kai'Sa. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kai'Sa.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Kai'Sa does a poor job of protecting Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Kai'Sa
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Kai'Sa is a relatively poor ally for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, she lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 45.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Skarner and Kai'Sa that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kai'Sa has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Kai'Sa comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Skarner players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Skarner and Kai'Sa together, you will not be providing your other allies very much support. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Kai'Sa ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to work well with Kai'Sa during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Skarner and Kai'Sa synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Kai'Sa than with many other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 45.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Skarner players 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 picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Kai'Sa with Skarner are presented for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.