Vladimir with Skarner
How to Synergize Vladimir and Skarner
based on 346 Vladimir with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vladimir Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Vladimir vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vladimir and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Vladimir with Skarner
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Vladimir in LoL
The Vladimir 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, Vladimir sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Skarner helps Vladimir perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vladimir is paired with Skarner, he observes a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Skarner does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played with Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Skarner.
Additionally, when Vladimir plays with Skarner on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Skarner does a decent job of covering Vladimir in teamfights.
Synergies between Vladimir and Skarner
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Is Vladimir better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no perfect companion for Vladimir that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, Skarner is a very bad teammate for Vladimir. By locking into the same team as Vladimir, he drops their win rate by -3.8% to 46.2%. This signals that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Vladimir and Skarner that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Vladimir. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Skarner allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Vladimir and Skarner together, you may not be giving your team a lot of support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Skarner ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir to pair well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Vladimir and Skarner synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Vladimir used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Skarner than with most other typical builds. In fact, Vladimir had an average win rate of 46.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Vladimir players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.2% win rate overall.
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