Olaf with Skarner
How to Synergize Olaf and Skarner
based on 76 Olaf with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Olaf Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Olaf vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Skarner
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
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.
Olaf Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf 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, Olaf sees a large worsening in his 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 Olaf perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Olaf plays on the same team as Skarner, he gets a clear improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Skarner provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played 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 with Skarner.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Skarner on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Skarner does a poor job of protecting Olaf during team fights.
Synergies between Olaf and Skarner
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no perfect ally for Olaf that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Skarner is a terrible ally for Olaf. By being on the same side as Olaf, he lowers their win rate by -4.3% to 44.7%. This shows that there is a very bad bond between Olaf and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Skarner has a greater difficulty than Olaf. That means you should be careful when finding Skarner allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Olaf and Skarner together, you probably will not be providing your team very much magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Skarner ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Olaf to synergize with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Olaf and Skarner synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Maw of Malmortius, and Death's Dance. When Olaf used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Skarner than with many other common item sets. In fact, Olaf boasted an average winrate of 44.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Olaf players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Olaf and Skarner pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.7% win rate overall.
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