Skarner with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Skarner and Rek'Sai
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Skarner Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Skarner Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rek'Sai helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is paired with Rek'Sai, he gets a sizeable uptick in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Rek'Sai supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Rek'Sai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Rek'Sai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rek'Sai.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Rek'Sai on the same team, he on average receives much less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Rek'Sai does a decent job of protecting Skarner during team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Rek'Sai
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no top champion pairing for Skarner that will always be his top ally. However, Rek'Sai is a very bad ally for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, he decreases their win rate by -3.9% to 44.4%. This shows that there is a very bad bond between Skarner and Rek'Sai that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Rek'Sai has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Rek'Sai teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Skarner and Rek'Sai together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Rek'Sai ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 pair well with Rek'Sai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Skarner and Rek'Sai synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Rek'Sai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 44.4% helping carry Rek'Sai with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.4% win rate overall.
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