Aphelios with Skarner
How to Synergize Aphelios and Skarner
based on 285 Aphelios with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Skarner Counter Build
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Early Items
Core Aphelios Items
Optional Items
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Skarner
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Skarner helps Aphelios perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios tries to synergize with Skarner, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Skarner supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Skarner on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Aphelios during teamfights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Skarner
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Aphelios that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Skarner is a very typical teammate for Aphelios. By locking into the same team as Aphelios, he decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 48.4%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Aphelios and Skarner that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Skarner has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Skarner allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Aphelios and Skarner together, you may not be providing your other allies very much magic damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Additional Information for Aphelios Players
How We Calculated Our Aphelios Skarner Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aphelios to work well with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Aphelios and Skarner synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Stormrazor. When Aphelios bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Skarner than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 48.4% helping carry Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
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