Skarner with Xayah
How to Synergize Skarner and Xayah
based on 200 Skarner with Xayah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Xayah Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Skarner Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xayah helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Xayah, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This could signal that Xayah doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Xayah 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 with Xayah.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Xayah on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Xayah does a decent job of protecting Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Xayah
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Skarner that will always be his best teammate. However, Xayah is a very bad ally for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, she lowers their win rate by -4.3% to 44.0%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Skarner and Xayah that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Xayah has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be very careful when finding Xayah teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Skarner and Xayah together, you may not be providing your side a lot of AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Xayah ally, you should focus on increasing 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to work well with Xayah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to get in your Skarner and Xayah synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Xayah than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 44.0% helping carry Xayah with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Xayah with Skarner are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.