Akali with Skarner
How to Synergize Akali and Skarner
based on 737 Akali with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Akali Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Akali vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Akali with Skarner
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Akali in LoL
The Akali 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, Akali sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Skarner helps Akali perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is an ally to Skarner, she gets a little increase in her total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Skarner helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Skarner.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Skarner on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Skarner does a decent job of covering Akali in team fights.
Synergies between Akali and Skarner
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Is Akali better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top champion pairing for Akali that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, Skarner is a not very good companion for Akali. By being on the same side as Akali, he lowers their win rate by -3.0% to 46.1%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Akali and Skarner that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Akali. 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 need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Akali and Skarner together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Akali to work well with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Akali and Skarner synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Skarner than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 46.1% when playing alongside Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Akali players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.1% winrate overall.
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