Skarner with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Skarner and Xin Zhao
based on 83 Skarner with Xin Zhao pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Skarner Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xin Zhao helps Skarner perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Xin Zhao, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Xin Zhao helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he often takes much less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no one best ally for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a great companion for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, he raises their win rate by 3.5% to 51.8%. This demonstrates that there is a strong synergy between Skarner and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Xin Zhao teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Skarner and Xin Zhao together, you may not be granting your team very much AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Skarner to work well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Skarner and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Skarner and Xin Zhao pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.8% win rate overall.
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