Samira with Skarner
How to Synergize Samira and Skarner
based on 563 Samira with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Samira Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Samira vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Samira and Skarner
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.
Samira Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Samira in LoL
The Samira 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, Samira sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Skarner helps Samira perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Samira is an ally to Skarner, she gets a little increase in her full damage output. This difference may indicate that Skarner supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played together with Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Moreover, when Samira plays with Skarner on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Samira during teamfights.
Synergies between Samira and Skarner
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Is Samira better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Samira that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, Skarner is a terrible teammate for Samira. By playing on the same side as Samira, he lowers their win rate by -4.3% to 44.4%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Samira and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Samira. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Skarner teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Samira players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Samira and Skarner together, you may not be giving your other teammates much AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Samira to pair well with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Samira and Skarner synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Samira bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Skarner than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 44.4% when playing alongside Skarner with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Samira players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.4% winrate overall.
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