Veigar with Skarner
How to Synergize Veigar and Skarner
based on 477 Veigar with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Veigar Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Veigar vs Skarner Counter Build
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Core Veigar Items
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Guide to Synergizing Veigar and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Veigar with Skarner
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Veigar in LoL
The Veigar Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Veigar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Skarner helps Veigar perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar is an ally to Skarner, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Skarner helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played alongside Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Moreover, when Veigar plays with Skarner on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Veigar during teamfights.
Synergies between Veigar and Skarner
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Is Veigar better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no ideal synergy for Veigar that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Skarner is a superb teammate for Veigar. By locking into the same team as Veigar, he increases their win rate by 6.0% to 55.3%. This demonstrates that there is a strong synergy between Veigar and Skarner that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Veigar. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Skarner allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Veigar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Veigar and Skarner together, you may not be granting your side much engage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Veigar to synergize with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Veigar and Skarner synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Skarner than with many other typical builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average win rate of 55.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 55.3% winrate overall.
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