Rek'Sai with Skarner
How to Synergize Rek'Sai and Skarner
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Rek'Sai Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rek'Sai and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai with Skarner
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Rek'Sai in LoL
The Rek'Sai 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, Rek'Sai sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Skarner helps Rek'Sai perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rek'Sai is paired with Skarner, he sees a clear improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Skarner provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rek'Sai is played with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Additionally, when Rek'Sai plays with Skarner on the same team, he typically receives much less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Rek'Sai during teamfights.
Synergies between Rek'Sai and Skarner
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Is Rek'Sai better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Rek'Sai that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Skarner is a terrible teammate for Rek'Sai. By locking into the same team as Rek'Sai, he drops their win rate by -4.0% to 44.4%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Rek'Sai and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Skarner has a greater difficulty than Rek'Sai. That means you need to be very careful when finding Skarner teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Rek'Sai and Skarner together, you will not be granting your team a lot of magical damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Rek'Sai in order to synergize with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Rek'Sai and Skarner synergy build include Guardian Angel, Sterak's Gage, and Black Cleaver. When Rek'Sai combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Skarner than with many other common builds. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average winrate of 44.4% when playing alongside Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Ghost Poro, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.4% winrate overall.
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