Skarner with Twitch
How to Synergize Skarner and Twitch
based on 491 Skarner with Twitch pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Twitch Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Twitch Counter Build
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Core Skarner Items
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Twitch
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Twitch
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 Twitch Will Play
Contaminate has a large range; apply as many stacks of Deadly Venom as possible before using it.
You can catch up to an enemy out of attack range with Venom Cask.
Twitch's Attack Speed is among the highest in the game; try purchasing items with on-hit effects such as Black Cleaver or Wit's End.
Skarner Twitch Synergy Stats
How to Play with Twitch as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Twitch synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Twitch, 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 Twitch. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Twitch helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is paired with Twitch, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This change could signal that Twitch helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Twitch on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Twitch.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Twitch on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Twitch does a poor job of covering Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Twitch
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Twitch?
There is no top companion for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Twitch is a very typical companion for Skarner. By playing on the same side as Skarner, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 47.7%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Skarner and Twitch that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Twitch has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you should be very careful when finding Twitch teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Skarner players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Skarner and Twitch together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of AP. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Twitch ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Skarner to work well with Twitch during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Skarner and Twitch synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Twitch than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 47.7% helping carry Twitch with this build.
To have the highest probability 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 players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Twitch with Skarner are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.