Viktor with Skarner
How to Synergize Viktor and Skarner
based on 213 Viktor with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Viktor Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Viktor vs Skarner Counter Build
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Core Viktor Items
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Guide to Synergizing Viktor and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Viktor with Skarner
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Viktor in LoL
The Viktor 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, Viktor sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Skarner helps Viktor perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Viktor tries to synergize with Skarner, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Skarner provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played with 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.
Additionally, when Viktor plays with Skarner on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Skarner does a decent job of covering Viktor during teamfights.
Synergies between Viktor and Skarner
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Is Viktor better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top champion pairing for Viktor that will always be his top ally. However, Skarner is a terrible ally for Viktor. By being on the same side as Viktor, he drops their win rate by -4.2% to 46.0%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Viktor and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Skarner has a much lower diffuclty than Viktor. That means Viktor players don't need to be careful when lining up Skarner comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, Viktor players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Viktor and Skarner together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of utility. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Viktor in order to work well with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Viktor and Skarner synergy build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Skarner than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Viktor boasted an average win rate of 46.0% helping carry Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Viktor and Skarner pairings, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.0% winrate overall.
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