Skarner with Kayn
How to Synergize Skarner and Kayn
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Skarner Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Kayn Counter Build
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Core Skarner Items
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Skarner Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kayn helps Skarner perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is an ally to Kayn, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Kayn provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Kayn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kayn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kayn.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Kayn on the same side, he on average receives less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Kayn does a decent job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Kayn
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no perfect synergy for Skarner that will always be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Kayn is a great ally for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, he increases their win rate by 4.3% to 52.6%. This shows that there is an important synergy between Skarner and Kayn that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Kayn has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players need to be very careful when finding Kayn comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Skarner players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Skarner and Kayn together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Kayn ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 pair well with Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Skarner and Kayn synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Kayn than with many other typical builds. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 52.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kayn with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Skarner players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.6% win rate overall.
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