Skarner with Rammus
How to Synergize Skarner and Rammus
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Skarner Rammus Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Rammus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Rammus
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Rammus
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 Rammus Will Play
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
Skarner Rammus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rammus as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Rammus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rammus, 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 Rammus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rammus helps Skarner perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Rammus, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This change may signal that Rammus supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Rammus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Rammus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rammus.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Rammus on the same team, he on average takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Rammus does a decent job of protecting Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Rammus
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Rammus?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Rammus is a very bad companion for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, he lowers their win rate by -20.0% to 28.3%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Skarner and Rammus that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Rammus has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be careful when lining up Rammus allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, Skarner players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Skarner and Rammus together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Rammus ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 work well with Rammus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Skarner and Rammus synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Rammus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 28.3% when playing alongside Rammus with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 28.3% win rate overall.
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