Skarner with Malphite
How to Synergize Skarner and Malphite
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Skarner Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Malphite
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 Malphite Will Play
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
Skarner Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, 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 Malphite. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malphite helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is an ally to Malphite, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Malphite provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Malphite on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Malphite. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malphite.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Malphite on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malphite does a poor job of covering Skarner during team fights.
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no perfect companion for Skarner that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Malphite is a not very good companion for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 47.1%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Skarner and Malphite that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Malphite teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Skarner players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Skarner and Malphite together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 in order to pair well with Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Skarner and Malphite synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Skarner bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Malphite than with most other common builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 47.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malphite with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating 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 sets players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.1% win rate overall.
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