Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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 Nidalee 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, Nidalee sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Nidalee perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nidalee tries to synergize with Skarner, she sees a moderate decrease in her complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Skarner does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played together with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Skarner.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Skarner on the same team, she often takes much less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Nidalee during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nidalee that will no matter what be her top ally. However, Skarner is a terrible teammate for Nidalee. By being on the same team as Nidalee, he lowers their win rate by -6.1% to 38.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Nidalee and Skarner that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Skarner has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Skarner comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Nidalee and Skarner together, you may not be providing your team enough utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Nidalee to pair well with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Nidalee and Skarner synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Hextech Rocketbelt. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Skarner than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 38.7% when playing alongside Skarner with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ingenious Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Future's Market runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Nidalee and Skarner pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 38.7% winrate overall.
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