Skarner with Rakan
How to Synergize Skarner and Rakan
based on 320 Skarner with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Skarner Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Rakan helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Rakan, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Rakan helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Rakan on the same side, 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 Rakan.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Rakan on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Rakan does a decent job of covering Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Rakan
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no one best companion for Skarner that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Rakan is a very typical ally for Skarner. By being on the same side as Skarner, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 47.8%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Skarner and Rakan that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be very careful when lining up Rakan comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by bringing Skarner and Rakan together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Rakan teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Skarner in order to pair well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Skarner and Rakan synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Rakan than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 47.8% helping carry Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood 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 builds players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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