Skarner with Talon
How to Synergize Skarner and Talon
based on 210 Skarner with Talon pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Talon Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Talon
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Skarner Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Talon helps Skarner perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Talon, he observes a clear improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Talon supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Talon on the same team, 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 Talon.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Talon on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Talon does a poor job of protecting Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Talon
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Talon?
There is no perfect companion for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Talon is a terrible companion for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, he drops their win rate by -4.0% to 44.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Skarner and Talon that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Talon has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you should be cautious when finding Talon comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Skarner and Talon together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Talon ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to work well with Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Skarner and Talon synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Talon than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 44.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Talon with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Skarner players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.3% winrate overall.
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