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.
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
The Skarner Aatrox synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aatrox, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Skarner sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aatrox. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aatrox helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Aatrox, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Aatrox does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Aatrox on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aatrox.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Aatrox on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Aatrox does a decent job of covering Skarner in team fights.
There is no one best synergy for Skarner that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Aatrox is a very typical teammate for Skarner. By playing on the same side as Skarner, he decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 48.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Skarner and Aatrox that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Aatrox has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Aatrox allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Skarner players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Skarner and Aatrox together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Aatrox ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to synergize with Aatrox during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Skarner and Aatrox synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Skarner included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Aatrox than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aatrox with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Skarner players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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