Skarner with Karma
How to Synergize Skarner and Karma
based on 297 Skarner with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Karma Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Karma
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Karma
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 Karma Will Play
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Skarner Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, 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 Karma. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karma helps Skarner perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is an ally to Karma, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Karma provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Karma 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 Karma.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Karma on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Karma does a decent job of protecting Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Karma
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Karma?
There is no one best companion for Skarner that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Karma is a not very good companion for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, she decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 46.5%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Skarner and Karma that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Karma comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Skarner and Karma together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of attack damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Karma ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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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 Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Skarner and Karma synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Karma than with most other common builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 46.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip 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 chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.5% winrate overall.
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