Zed with Skarner
How to Synergize Zed and Skarner
based on 443 Zed with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Zed with Skarner
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a very large drop 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 Zed perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is an ally to Skarner, he gets a noticable increase in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Skarner supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Skarner on the same side, 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 Zed plays with Skarner on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Skarner does a poor job of covering Zed in teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Skarner
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Is Zed better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Zed that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Skarner is a very typical companion for Zed. By playing on the same side as Zed, he increases their win rate by 0.8% to 49.2%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Zed and Skarner that results in them performing better together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Skarner comrades 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.
Playing alongside, Zed players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Zed and Skarner together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed to work well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Zed and Skarner synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Skarner than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 49.2% helping carry Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Zed and Skarner pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.2% win rate overall.
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