Skarner with Alistar
How to Synergize Skarner and Alistar
based on 176 Skarner with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Skarner Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Alistar helps Skarner perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is an ally to Alistar, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Alistar provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Alistar 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 synergisticly with Alistar.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Alistar on the same team, he typically takes less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Alistar does a decent job of covering Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Alistar
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Skarner that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Alistar is a very typical teammate for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 48.3%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Skarner and Alistar that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players need to be cautious when arranging Alistar comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, Skarner players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by pairing Skarner and Alistar together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Skarner in order to work well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Skarner and Alistar synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Alistar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 48.3% helping carry Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Skarner and Alistar pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
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