Nasus with Skarner
How to Synergize Nasus and Skarner
based on 299 Nasus with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nasus Skarner Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Skarner
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus 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, Nasus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Nasus perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus is an ally to Skarner, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Skarner does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Skarner on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Nasus in team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top champion pairing for Nasus that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Skarner is a relatively poor ally for Nasus. By locking into the same team as Nasus, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 48.8%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Nasus and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players don't need to be careful when finding Skarner comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Nasus and Skarner together, you will not be granting your other allies a lot of utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nasus to pair well with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Nasus and Skarner synergy build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Skarner than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Nasus players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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