Caitlyn with Skarner
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Skarner
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Caitlyn Skarner Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Skarner
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn 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, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Caitlyn perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn plays on the same team as Skarner, she sees a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Skarner provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Skarner on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Skarner does a decent job of covering Caitlyn in team fights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no ideal companion for Caitlyn that will always be her #1 synergy. However, Skarner is a below average ally for Caitlyn. By being on the same team as Caitlyn, he drops their win rate by -2.9% to 46.4%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Caitlyn and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players don't need to be very careful when lining up Skarner teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Caitlyn and Skarner together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn to work well with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Caitlyn and Skarner synergy build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Rapid Firecannon. When Caitlyn used at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Skarner than with most other common builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average win rate of 46.4% when playing alongside Skarner with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Caitlyn players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.4% winrate overall.
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