Poppy with Skarner
How to Synergize Poppy and Skarner
based on 118 Poppy with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Poppy Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Skarner
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Skarner helps Poppy perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Poppy tries to synergize with Skarner, she sees a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference may signal that Skarner provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Additionally, when Poppy plays with Skarner on the same team, she on average receives less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Poppy during team fights.
Synergies between Poppy and Skarner
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Poppy that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. Yet, Skarner is a terrible ally for Poppy. By being on the same side as Poppy, he drops their win rate by -5.6% to 44.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible synergy between Poppy and Skarner that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means Poppy players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Skarner teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Poppy players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by pairing Poppy and Skarner together, you will not be granting your team enough magic damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Poppy to synergize with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Poppy and Skarner synergy build include Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Poppy bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Skarner than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average winrate of 44.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Skarner with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Poppy players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Revitalize, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.1% win rate overall.
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