Skarner with Tristana
How to Synergize Skarner and Tristana
based on 429 Skarner with Tristana pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Tristana Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Skarner Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Tristana helps Skarner perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is an ally to Tristana, he gets a little drop in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Tristana doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Tristana on the same side, 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 Tristana.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Tristana on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Tristana does a poor job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Tristana
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no ideal synergy for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Tristana is a below average teammate for Skarner. By playing on the same side as Skarner, she lowers their win rate by -2.6% to 45.7%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Skarner and Tristana that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Tristana has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Tristana allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Skarner players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Skarner and Tristana together, you will not be granting your team enough utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Tristana ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Skarner in order to synergize with Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Skarner and Tristana 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 much better when fighting alongside Tristana than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 45.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tristana with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.7% win rate overall.
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