Skarner with Nocturne
How to Synergize Skarner and Nocturne
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Skarner Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Nocturne
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 Nocturne Will Play
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Skarner Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, 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 Nocturne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nocturne helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Nocturne, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Nocturne supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Nocturne on the same team, he usually receives much less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Skarner during team fights.
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Skarner that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Nocturne is a very bad teammate for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, he lowers their win rate by -5.6% to 42.7%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Skarner and Nocturne that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Nocturne comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Skarner and Nocturne together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 to pair well with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Skarner and Nocturne synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 42.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 42.7% winrate overall.
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