Taliyah with Skarner
How to Synergize Taliyah and Skarner
based on 92 Taliyah with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Taliyah Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Taliyah vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Taliyah and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Taliyah with Skarner
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Advice to Understand How Skarner Will Play
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.
Taliyah Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Taliyah in LoL
The Taliyah Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Taliyah sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Taliyah perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Taliyah is an ally to Skarner, she sees a noticable increase in her total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Skarner supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Taliyah is played together with Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Additionally, when Taliyah plays with Skarner on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Skarner does a decent job of covering Taliyah in teamfights.
Synergies between Taliyah and Skarner
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Is Taliyah better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Taliyah that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Skarner is a not very good ally for Taliyah. By playing on the same side as Taliyah, he decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 46.7%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Taliyah and Skarner that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Taliyah. That means Taliyah players don't need to be careful when enlisting Skarner allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Taliyah and Skarner together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of AD. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Taliyah to work well with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Taliyah and Skarner synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Skarner than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average win rate of 46.7% when playing alongside Skarner with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.7% winrate overall.
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