Shyvana with Skarner
How to Synergize Shyvana and Skarner
based on 43 Shyvana with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shyvana Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Skarner Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Shyvana Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Skarner
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana 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, Shyvana 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 decrease shows that Skarner helps Shyvana perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shyvana is paired with Skarner, she observes a big jump in her complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Skarner provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played together with Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Skarner.
Additionally, when Shyvana plays with Skarner on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Skarner does a decent job of covering Shyvana in team fights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Skarner
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no ideal ally for Shyvana that will 100% of the time be her best ally. However, overall, Skarner is a very bad teammate for Shyvana. By being on the same side as Shyvana, he drops their win rate by -4.9% to 44.2%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Shyvana and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Skarner has a greater difficulty than Shyvana. That means you should be careful when arranging Skarner allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Shyvana players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Shyvana and Skarner together, you may not be granting your side very much utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shyvana in order to work well with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Shyvana and Skarner synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Shyvana used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Skarner than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average winrate of 44.2% when playing alongside Skarner with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Shyvana players should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Skarner with Shyvana are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.