Skarner with Kassadin
How to Synergize Skarner and Kassadin
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Skarner Kassadin Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Skarner Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kassadin helps Skarner perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is paired with Kassadin, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Kassadin supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kassadin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Kassadin on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Kassadin does a poor job of covering Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Kassadin
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no perfect ally for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, Kassadin is a below average companion for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, he drops their win rate by -2.9% to 45.4%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Skarner and Kassadin that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players should be very careful when lining up Kassadin comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Skarner players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Skarner and Kassadin together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of attack damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Kassadin ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 pair well with Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Skarner and Kassadin synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Kassadin than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 45.4% when playing alongside Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance 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 sets players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.4% win rate overall.
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