Skarner with Nilah
How to Synergize Skarner and Nilah
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Skarner Nilah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Nilah
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Nilah
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.
Skarner Nilah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nilah as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nilah helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is paired with Nilah, he observes a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Nilah doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Nilah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nilah.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Nilah on the same team, he on average receives less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Nilah does a decent job of protecting Skarner during teamfights.
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Nilah?
There is no ideal synergy for Skarner that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Nilah is a superb teammate for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, they raises their win rate by 7.2% to 55.5%. This shows that there is an important synergy between Skarner and Nilah that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Nilah has a much greater difficulty compared to Skarner. That means you need to be careful when lining up Nilah allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Skarner players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Skarner and Nilah together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nilah ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to work well with Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Skarner and Nilah synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Nilah than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 55.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nilah with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 55.5% winrate overall.
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