Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
The Lissandra 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, Lissandra 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 Lissandra perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lissandra is an ally to Skarner, she gets a little decrease in her total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Skarner does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra 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.
Moreover, when Lissandra plays with Skarner on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Skarner does a decent job of covering Lissandra in teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Lissandra that will always be her top teammate. However, overall, Skarner is a terrible ally for Lissandra. By locking into the same team as Lissandra, he decreases their win rate by -4.3% to 45.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Lissandra and Skarner that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players don't need to be careful when enlisting Skarner comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Lissandra players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Lissandra and Skarner together, you will not be providing your side enough sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Lissandra to work well with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Lissandra and Skarner synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra included at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Skarner than with most other typical builds. In fact, Lissandra had an average winrate of 45.2% helping carry Skarner with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Lissandra players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.2% win rate overall.
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