Skarner with Lucian
How to Synergize Skarner and Lucian
based on 744 Skarner with Lucian pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Skarner Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lucian helps Skarner perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Lucian, he observes a little drop in his total damage output. This may indicate that Lucian does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Lucian on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Lucian. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lucian.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Lucian on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Lucian does a decent job of covering Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Lucian
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Skarner that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Lucian is a very typical teammate for Skarner. By playing on the same side as Skarner, he improves their win rate by 0.5% to 48.8%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Skarner and Lucian that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Lucian has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players need to be cautious when arranging Lucian teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Skarner players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Skarner and Lucian together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Lucian ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Skarner in order to synergize with Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Skarner and Lucian synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Skarner included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Lucian than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Skarner and Lucian pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Lucian with Skarner are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.