Skarner with Rumble
How to Synergize Skarner and Rumble
based on 177 Skarner with Rumble pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Rumble Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Rumble Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Rumble
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Rumble
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 Rumble Will Play
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
Skarner Rumble Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rumble as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Rumble synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rumble, 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 Rumble. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rumble helps Skarner perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Rumble, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Rumble helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Rumble on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Rumble. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rumble.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Rumble on the same team, he often receives more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Rumble does a poor job of covering Skarner during team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Rumble
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Rumble?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Skarner that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Rumble is a very bad teammate for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, he drops their win rate by -5.9% to 42.4%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Skarner and Rumble that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Rumble has a much greater difficulty compared to Skarner. That means Skarner players need to be very careful when arranging Rumble comrades to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Skarner players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Skarner and Rumble together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of support. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Rumble ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 to work well with Rumble during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Skarner and Rumble synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Rumble than with most other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 42.4% when playing alongside Rumble with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Skarner players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 42.4% winrate overall.
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