Skarner with Olaf
How to Synergize Skarner and Olaf
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Skarner Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Skarner Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Olaf helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is paired with Olaf, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Olaf provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Olaf on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Olaf. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Olaf.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Olaf on the same team, he often receives more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Olaf does a poor job of protecting Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Olaf
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Olaf is a terrible ally for Skarner. By locking into the same team as Skarner, he drops their win rate by -3.6% to 44.7%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Skarner and Olaf that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Olaf has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Olaf comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Skarner and Olaf together, you probably will not be granting your team much magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Skarner in order to work well with Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Skarner and Olaf synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Olaf than with many other typical builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 44.7% when playing alongside Olaf with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Skarner players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.7% winrate overall.
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