Lux with Skarner
How to Synergize Lux and Skarner
based on 1,283 Lux with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lux Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Lux vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Lux and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Lux with Skarner
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Lux in LoL
The Lux 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, Lux sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Skarner helps Lux perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lux plays on the same team as Skarner, she observes a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Skarner helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Lux is played with Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Moreover, when Lux plays with Skarner on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Lux during teamfights.
Synergies between Lux and Skarner
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Is Lux better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no ideal ally for Lux that will no matter what be her top ally. However, overall, Skarner is a very typical companion for Lux. By locking into the same side as Lux, he decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 49.6%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Lux and Skarner that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Lux. That means Lux players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Skarner comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Lux players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Lux and Skarner together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough sustained damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Lux to pair well with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Lux and Skarner synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lux bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Skarner than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Lux boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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