Vi with Skarner
How to Synergize Vi and Skarner
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Vi Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Vi vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vi and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Vi with Skarner
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Vi in LoL
The Vi 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, Vi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Vi perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vi is paired with Skarner, she gets a noticable drop in her full damage output. This could signal that Skarner doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vi is played together with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Skarner.
Additionally, when Vi plays with Skarner on the same team, she on average receives much less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Skarner does a decent job of covering Vi during team fights.
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Is Vi better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no perfect companion for Vi that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Skarner is a terrible ally for Vi. By being on the same side as Vi, he decreases their win rate by -4.8% to 46.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad synergy between Vi and Skarner that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Skarner has a greater difficulty than Vi. That means Vi players must be cautious when arranging Skarner allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Vi and Skarner together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of magic damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Vi to work well with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Vi and Skarner synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Vi used at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Skarner than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vi boasted an average win rate of 46.8% helping carry Skarner with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Vi and Skarner pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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