Skarner with Vayne
How to Synergize Skarner and Vayne
based on 709 Skarner with Vayne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Vayne Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Vayne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Vayne
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Vayne
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 Vayne Will Play
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
Skarner Vayne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vayne as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Vayne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vayne, 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 Vayne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vayne helps Skarner perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Vayne, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Vayne does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Vayne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vayne.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Vayne on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Vayne does a decent job of covering Skarner during team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Vayne
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Vayne?
There is no one best companion for Skarner that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Vayne is a very typical ally for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, she raises their win rate by 0.5% to 48.8%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Skarner and Vayne that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Vayne has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you should be very careful when lining up Vayne comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Skarner and Vayne together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Vayne ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Skarner to work well with Vayne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Skarner and Vayne synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Skarner bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Vayne than with many other typical builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 48.8% helping carry Vayne with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Skarner and Vayne pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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