Skarner with Kindred
How to Synergize Skarner and Kindred
based on 50 Skarner with Kindred pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Kindred Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Skarner Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kindred helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Kindred, he sees a moderate decrease in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Kindred doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Kindred on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kindred.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Kindred on the same side, he on average takes less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Kindred does a decent job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Kindred
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no top champion pairing for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Kindred is a very bad ally for Skarner. By being on the same side as Skarner, they drops their win rate by -4.3% to 44.0%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Skarner and Kindred that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kindred has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be careful when finding Kindred allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Skarner players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Skarner and Kindred together, you probably will not be giving your side much magic damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Kindred ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to pair well with Kindred during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Skarner and Kindred synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Kindred than with most other common item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 44.0% when playing alongside Kindred with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Skarner and Kindred pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.0% winrate overall.
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