Skarner with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Skarner and Nunu & Willump
based on 71 Skarner with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Skarner Items
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Summoner Spells
Skill Order
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump Will Play
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Skarner Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nunu & Willump helps Skarner perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is paired with Nunu & Willump, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Nunu & Willump provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nunu & Willump. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he on average takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of covering Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Nunu & Willump
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no top champion pairing for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Nunu & Willump is a terrible ally for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, he lowers their win rate by -3.2% to 45.1%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Skarner and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be careful when enlisting Nunu & Willump allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Skarner and Nunu & Willump together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of support. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nunu & Willump ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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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 Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Skarner and Nunu & Willump synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Nunu & Willump than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 45.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Skarner players should use 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 combinations we have analyed for Skarner and Nunu & Willump pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.1% win rate overall.
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