Akshan with Skarner
How to Synergize Akshan and Skarner
based on 217 Akshan with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Akshan Skarner Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Skarner
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan 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, Akshan sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Skarner helps Akshan perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akshan tries to synergize with Skarner, they gets a marginal improvement in their total damage output. This change may signal that Skarner supports by providing cover for them to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played alongside Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Skarner.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Skarner on the same side, they often receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Skarner does a poor job of protecting Akshan in team fights.
Synergies between Akshan and Skarner
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Akshan that will no matter what be their best teammate. However, Skarner is a very bad teammate for Akshan. By locking into the same side as Akshan, he decreases their win rate by -4.8% to 44.2%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Akshan and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Skarner has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means you must be careful when arranging Skarner teammates to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Akshan and Skarner together, you probably will not be giving your team much magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to synergize with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Akshan and Skarner synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan incorporated at least these three great items in their build, they did much better as an ally of Skarner than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 44.2% when playing alongside Skarner with these items in their kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Akshan players should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Akshan and Skarner pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.2% winrate overall.
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