Skarner with Zed
How to Synergize Skarner and Zed
based on 443 Skarner with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Zed Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Zed Counter Build
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Core Skarner Items
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Zed
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Skarner Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Zed, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Zed supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Zed on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Zed
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal ally for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Zed is a very typical companion for Skarner. By being on the same side as Skarner, he increases their win rate by 0.9% to 49.2%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Skarner and Zed that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you need to be very careful when finding Zed allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Skarner and Zed together, you may not be providing your other allies much magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Skarner in order to pair well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Skarner and Zed synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Zed than with many other common builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 49.2% when playing alongside Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating 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 runes players used for Skarner and Zed pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
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