Skarner with Thresh
How to Synergize Skarner and Thresh
based on 482 Skarner with Thresh pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Thresh Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Thresh
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 Thresh Will Play
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Skarner Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Thresh helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Thresh, he observes a little drop in his total damage output. This may signal that Thresh does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Thresh on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Thresh. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Thresh.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Thresh on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Thresh does a decent job of covering Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Thresh
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, Thresh is a relatively poor companion for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 46.3%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Skarner and Thresh that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Thresh has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players must be cautious when finding Thresh comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, Skarner players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by aligning Skarner and Thresh together, you will not be providing your team enough AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to pair well with Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Skarner and Thresh synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Thresh than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 46.3% helping carry Thresh with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Skarner players 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 that we analyzed for Skarner and Thresh pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.3% winrate overall.
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