Viego with Skarner
How to Synergize Viego and Skarner
based on 75 Viego with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Viego Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Viego vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Viego and Skarner
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.
Viego Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Viego in LoL
The Viego Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Viego sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Viego perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Viego plays on the same team as Skarner, they gets a small decrease in their total damage dealt. This may signal that Skarner does not help protection for them to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Viego is played together with Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Moreover, when Viego plays with Skarner on the same side, they on average takes less damage than when they plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Skarner does a decent job of covering Viego in team fights.
Synergies between Viego and Skarner
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Is Viego better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no ideal synergy for Viego that will 100% of the time be their #1 teammate. However, Skarner is a terrible companion for Viego. By being on the same team as Viego, he drops their win rate by -6.6% to 44.0%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Viego and Skarner that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Viego. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Skarner allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Viego players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Viego and Skarner together, you will not be granting your side a lot of magical damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Skarner teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Viego to synergize with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Viego and Skarner synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Sterak's Gage, and Sundered Sky. When Viego combined at least these three finished items in their build, they did a lot better as an ally of Skarner than with most other typical builds. In fact, Viego boasted an average winrate of 44.0% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Skarner with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Viego players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Future's Market, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Viego and Skarner pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.0% win rate overall.
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